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What's one thing Russell O. Brackman Middle School gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
509
Middle
DISTRICT 504 · STATE 578
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BARNEGAT TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341647006074
Russell O. Brackman Middle School
600 BARNEGAT BLVD NORTH, BARNEGAT, NJ 08005 · (609) 698-5880 · Ocean County
GRADES 07–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL509 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 13% of New Jersey public middle schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New Jersey public middle schools
Student : Teacher
8.9:1
57 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.8:1 · STATE 10.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
46%
235 students
DISTRICT 45% · STATE 41%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 7 | 249 | 49% |
| Grade 8 | 260 | 51% |
Student demographics
57%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 56% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Russell O. Brackman Middle School→Barnegat High School
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Barnegat Township School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
39.0%
NJ avg 53.1% . +0.2pp since 2023
Math
31.9%
NJ avg 41.6% . +7.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 32 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 39.0% | 31.9% |
| 2023-24 | 38.8% | 24.9% |
% Meeting or Exceeding Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: NJSLA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
30.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.9%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 30% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New Jersey's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Russell O. Brackman Middle School
Russell O. Brackman Middle School's state test result (30.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Russell O. Brackman Middle School this school | 509 | 46.2% | 30.5% |
| Robert L. Horbelt Elementary School BARNEGAT | 499 | 47.3% | 37.1% |
| Pennsville Middle School PENNSVILLE | 460 | 46.1% | 27.9% |
| Berkeley Township Elementary School BAYVILLE | 594 | 38.4% | 36.2% |
| Mary E. Volz Elementary School RUNNEMEDE | 510 | 41.2% | 34.0% |
| Middle Township Elementary #4 CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE | 544 | 54.2% | 34.3% |
Matched among New Jersey middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Russell O. Brackman Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Ocean County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 30.5% | #334 of 433 | #17 of 19 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 31.9% | #299 of 437 ▲ 29 | #14 of 19 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 39.0% | #350 of 437 ▼ 12 | #18 of 19 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 509 | #244 of 445 | #16 of 19 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.9:1 | #53 of 417 | #2 of 19 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.9% | #194 of 419 | #6 of 19 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 46.2% | #154 of 436 | #8 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -29.3% | #21 of 282 | #3 of 16 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
509
-16 (-3%) vs 2020
-17% since 1990-91, when it was 613
Student : Teacher
8.9:1
was 10.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 509 | 57 | 8.9:1 | 46% (235) |
| 2023-24 | 509 | 59 | 8.6:1 | 41% (210) |
| 2022-23 | 579 | 61 | 9.5:1 | 33% (190) |
| 2020-21 | 525 | 52 | 10.1:1 | 36% (188) |
| 2017-18 | 720 | 62 | 11.6:1 | 38% (271) |
| 2015-16 | 735 | 69 | 10.7:1 | 41% (304) |
| 2010-11 | 784 | 56 | 14.0:1 | 29% (229) |
| 2000-01 | 782 | 53 | 14.8:1 | 21% (165) |
| 1990-91 | 613 | 51 | 12.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Russell O. Brackman Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 29% (720 to 509); teachers down 8% (62 to 57).
About Russell O. Brackman Middle School
Russell O. Brackman Middle School, located in BARNEGAT, New Jersey, is a medium-sized middle-grades school. A total of 509 students attend the school, which covers grades 7 through 8.
Barnegat Township School District runs 6 schools with a combined 3,604 students. Russell O. Brackman Middle School is one of them.
A majority of students at Russell O. Brackman Middle School, 61%, are White. Other reported shares: 23% Hispanic, 10% Black, and 5% multiracial. Ocean County's residents are about 83% White, 23 points above the school's share. Russell O. Brackman Middle School has a diversity index of 57%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Teacher staffing is 57 full-time equivalents, or about 8.9 students per teacher. Among middle schools in New Jersey, the typical ratio is 10.9:1. About 46% of students, or 235, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Across public schools in Ocean County, the average is about the same, 44%.
Russell O. Brackman Middle School is graded D by allk12, scoring above 13% of New Jersey public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
The model predicts 40.9% for a school in New Jersey with Russell O. Brackman Middle School's free or reduced-price lunch share. Russell O. Brackman Middle School posts 30.5%.
In the county around the school, Ocean County, median household income is about $89,863, about 34% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 7%. A total of 117 public schools operate in Ocean County, serving about 66,051 students.
Nearest public school: Cecil S. Collins Elementary, about 0.1 miles away. The five-mile area around Russell O. Brackman Middle School holds at least 8 other public schools. Russell O. Brackman Middle School's average proficiency of 30.5% compares with 39.3% for its nearest scored neighbors.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Suburb: Large.
The 2024-25 enrollment of 509 was 3% lower than in 2020-21, when it was 525. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio fell to 8.9:1, from 10.1:1.
Parents and students can post about school events, clubs, and volunteer needs at Russell O. Brackman Middle School. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Ocean County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
654,362
Census ACS
Median income
$89,863
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
117
66,051 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Barnegat Township School District
- Barnegat High SchoolHigh · 1,003 students
- Cecil S. Collins ElementaryElementary · 744 students
- Joseph T. Donahue Elementary SchoolElementary · 524 students
- Robert L. Horbelt Elementary SchoolMiddle · 499 students
- Lillian M. Dunfee ElementaryElementary · 325 students
Other schools in BARNEGAT
- Barnegat High SchoolHigh · 1,003 students
- Cecil S. Collins ElementaryElementary · 744 students
- Joseph T. Donahue Elementary SchoolElementary · 524 students
- Robert L. Horbelt Elementary SchoolMiddle · 499 students
- Lillian M. Dunfee ElementaryElementary · 325 students
Nearby schools
- Cecil S. Collins Elementary0.1 mi · 744
- Robert L. Horbelt Elementary School0.2 mi · 499
- Lillian M. Dunfee Elementary0.8 mi · 325
- Barnegat High School0.9 mi · 1,003
- Joseph T. Donahue Elementary School1.2 mi · 524
- Ocean County Vocational Technical School Waretown Center2.6 mi · 74
Frequently asked questions
About Russell O. Brackman Middle SchoolHow many students attend Russell O. Brackman Middle School?
Russell O. Brackman Middle School enrolls approximately 509 students in grades 07-08.
What age range does Russell O. Brackman Middle School serve?
Russell O. Brackman Middle School serves students from grade 07 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Russell O. Brackman Middle School?
Approximately 8.9:1 students per teacher at Russell O. Brackman Middle School.
What is the student diversity at Russell O. Brackman Middle School?
Student demographics at Russell O. Brackman Middle School are roughly 61% White, 23% Hispanic, 10% Black, 2% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Russell O. Brackman Middle School public or private?
Russell O. Brackman Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Barnegat Township School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.