Enrollment
264
Middle
DISTRICT 307 · STATE 578
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EAST ORANGE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340423005932
Sojourner Truth Middle School
116 HAMILTON ST, EAST ORANGE, NJ 07017 · (973) 266-5665 · Essex County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL264 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 2% of New Jersey public middle schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats 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
13.5:1
20 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.2:1 · STATE 10.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
27%
72 students
DISTRICT 19% · STATE 41%
Community
0
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 6 | 263 | 100% |
| Grade 7 | 1 | 0% |
Student demographics
42%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 37% · 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
Sojourner Truth Middle School→East Orange Campus High School
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NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
18.6%
NJ avg 53.1% . +8.6pp since 2023
Math
4.4%
NJ avg 41.6% . +0.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 19 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 4 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 9 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 18.6% | 4.4% |
| 2023-24 | 10.0% | 4.1% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NJ schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
9.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
51.2%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-42.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 9% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 51% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Sojourner Truth Middle School
Sojourner Truth Middle School's state test result (9.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sojourner Truth Middle School this school | 264 | 27.3% | 9.3% |
| Patrick F. Healy Middle School EAST ORANGE | 322 | 14.0% | 8.3% |
| John L. Costley Middle School EAST ORANGE | 334 | 9.9% | 7.6% |
| Liberty Middle School WEST ORANGE | 559 | 46.2% | 44.5% |
| Roosevelt Middle School W ORANGE | 457 | 43.8% | 46.2% |
| Jefferson Elementary UNION | 564 | 52.7% | 32.3% |
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 Sojourner Truth Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Essex County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 9.3% | #416 of 433 | #25 of 27 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 4.4% | #431 of 437 ▼ 3 | #28 of 28 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 18.6% | #417 of 437 ▲ 6 | #26 of 28 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 264 | #388 of 445 | #27 of 29 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.5:1 | #383 of 417 | #24 of 28 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 41.8% | #325 of 419 | #22 of 28 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 27.3% | #238 of 436 | #11 of 27 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -31.3% | #15 of 282 | #2 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
264
-72 (-21%) vs 2020
-48% since 1990-91, when it was 512
Student : Teacher
13.5:1
was 14.0:1
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 | 264 | 19.6 | 13.5:1 | 27% (72) |
| 2023-24 | 262 | 20.3 | 12.9:1 | 57% (150) |
| 2022-23 | 278 | 21.6 | 12.9:1 | 60% (168) |
| 2020-21 | 336 | 24 | 14.0:1 | 76% (257) |
| 2017-18 | 384 | 31 | 12.4:1 | 70% (267) |
| 2015-16 | 382 | 40 | 9.6:1 | 67% (256) |
| 2010-11 | 492 | 44 | 11.2:1 | 71% (348) |
| 2000-01 | 630 | 50 | 12.6:1 | 78% (492) |
| 1990-91 | 512 | 40 | 12.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sojourner Truth Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 31% (384 to 264); teachers down 37% (31 to 19.6).
About Sojourner Truth Middle School
In EAST ORANGE, New Jersey, part of Essex County, Sojourner Truth Middle School is a middle school. It has an enrollment of 264 students in grades 6 through 8. On average, middle schools in New Jersey enroll around 578, and this school is 54% below that mark.
Sojourner Truth Middle School is one school in a 19-school district, East Orange School District, which enrolls 8,348 students.
More than half of the students at Sojourner Truth Middle School are Black (73%). The remaining shares are 20% Hispanic and 5% White. Census estimates put the Black share of Essex County's population at about 36%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Sojourner Truth Middle School scores 42%.
On staff are 19.6 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 13.5:1. Middle schools in New Jersey have an average ratio of 10.9:1. About 27% of students at Sojourner Truth Middle School are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Essex County average 54%.
On the allk12 Grade, Sojourner Truth Middle School lands at F, ahead of 2% of New Jersey public middle schools.
Sojourner Truth Middle School falls short of its prediction by 42.0 points. The model expects 51.2% for a school with its free or reduced-price lunch share in New Jersey; the school's rate is 9.3%.
Looking at the county, Essex County, the median household earns about $80,789 a year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Sojourner Truth Middle School, Essex County has 249 public schools.
Among nearby public schools, John L. Costley Middle School is closest at less than a tenth of a mile. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Of the 5 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Sojourner Truth Middle School is 2nd on average proficiency.
The school's locale code, Suburb: Large, means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 21% decrease, from 336 to 264.
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Essex County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
863,002
Census ACS
Median income
$80,789
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
249
145,473 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in East Orange School District
- East Orange Campus High SchoolHigh · 1,798 students
- Cicely L. Tyson Community Middle/High SchoolHigh · 701 students
- East Orange STEM Academy High SchoolHigh · 646 students
- Edward T. Bowser Sr. School of ExcellenceElementary · 612 students
- Langston Hughes Elementary SchoolElementary · 554 students
- Cicely L. Tyson Community Elementary SchoolElementary · 481 students
Other schools in EAST ORANGE
- East Orange Campus High SchoolHigh · 1,798 students
- Cicely L. Tyson Community Middle/High SchoolHigh · 701 students
- East Orange STEM Academy High SchoolHigh · 646 students
- Edward T. Bowser Sr. School of ExcellenceElementary · 612 students
- Langston Hughes Elementary SchoolElementary · 554 students
- Cicely L. Tyson Community Elementary SchoolElementary · 481 students
Nearby schools
- John L. Costley Middle School0.0 mi · 334
- Patrick F. Healy Middle School0.0 mi · 322
- Edward T. Bowser Sr. School of Excellence0.1 mi · 612
- East Orange Campus High School0.2 mi · 1,798
- Wahlstrom Early Childhood Academy0.3 mi · 157
- J. Garfield Jackson Sr. Academy0.4 mi · 247
Frequently asked questions
About Sojourner Truth Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Sojourner Truth Middle School?
Sojourner Truth Middle School enrolls approximately 264 students in grades 06-08.
Is Sojourner Truth Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Sojourner Truth Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Sojourner Truth Middle School have?
Sojourner Truth Middle School employs 20 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.5:1.
How diverse is Sojourner Truth Middle School?
Sojourner Truth Middle School reports a student body of 5% White, 20% Hispanic, 73% Black, 1% Two or more.
Is Sojourner Truth Middle School public or private?
Sojourner Truth Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by East Orange School District.
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