Somerville Middle School

As a compact middle school in Somerville, New Jersey, Somerville Middle School teaches 339 students from grades 6 through 8, run under Somerville Public School District. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 578 students each, so Somerville Middle School sits 41% below that benchmark.

Within Somerville Public School District, which oversees 3 schools and 2,156 students, Somerville Middle School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Somerville Middle School records that 42% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school reports 35% White, 9% Black, 7% Asian, 7% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 18%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 10.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 42% of students at Somerville Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Somerset County's rate of about 28%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Somerville Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.1%, the actual is 36.5%, a residual of -6.6 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Somerset County) records that median household earnings sit near $140,374, 58% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Somerset County runs 84 public schools (combined enrollment of about 51,276 students), of which Somerville Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Somerville High School, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Somerville Middle School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 51.2%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Somerville Middle School has ticked down 12%, going from 384 students in 2018 to 339 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 10.8:1 in 2018 to 8.7:1 in 2025.

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