South Amboy Middle/High School

As a cozy secondary school in SOUTH AMBOY, New Jersey, South Amboy Middle/High School educates 616 students from grades 6 through 12, run under South Amboy School District. Compared to the state average of about 929 students per school, that is 34% below typical.

Across the 2 schools in South Amboy School District (1,200 students total), South Amboy Middle/High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, South Amboy Middle/High School reports that the largest single group is Hispanic at 46%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 36% White, 13% Black, 4% Asian, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Middlesex County as a whole is about 24% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.7:1, putting South Amboy Middle/High School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 59% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Middlesex County's rate of about 42%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, South Amboy Middle/High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.1%, the actual is 20.7%, a residual of -13.4 points.

In the broader community, census data for Middlesex County shows median household income runs about $111,549, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Middlesex County runs 214 public schools (combined enrollment of about 129,255 students), of which South Amboy Middle/High School is one.

South Amboy Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around South Amboy Middle/High School. On composite proficiency, South Amboy Middle/High School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 38.1%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Over the past 7-year window. South Amboy Middle/High School's enrollment has increased 21% since 2018, when it stood at 509 (now 616). The White share of enrollment declined from 58% to 36% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 today.

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