South River Middle School

South River Middle School operates as a mid-tier 6-8 campus in SOUTH RIVER, New Jersey, run under South River Public School District. Current enrollment sits at 524 students spanning grades 6 through 8.

South River Middle School is one of 5 schools operated by South River Public School District, a district that works with 2,395 students overall.

On demographics, South River Middle School logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 45%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 44% White, 6% Black, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.9:1, putting South River Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 67% of students at South River Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Middlesex County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, South River Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.6%, the actual is 24.2%, a residual of -5.4 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Middlesex County indicate median household earnings sit near $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%. South River Middle School is one of 214 public schools in Middlesex County (combined enrollment of about 129,255 students).

The closest other public school is South River Elementary School, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, South River Middle School comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 47.6%.

South River Middle School operates from an outer-ring location.

Over the past 7-year window. South River Middle School's enrollment has shrank 3% since 2018, when it stood at 539 (now 524). Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 36% to 45%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 11.8:1 in 2018 to 10.2:1 today.

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