Enrollment
269
Middle
DISTRICT 408 · STATE 578
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SPOTSWOOD PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341554000068
Spotswood Memorial Middle School
115 SUMMERHILL ROAD, SPOTSWOOD, NJ 08884 · (732) 723-2200 · Middlesex County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL269 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 9% 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.
- 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
10.8:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.1:1 · STATE 10.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
31%
83 students
DISTRICT 28% · 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 | 85 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 78 | 29% |
| Grade 8 | 106 | 39% |
Student demographics
53%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 54% · 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
Spotswood Memorial Middle School→Spotswood High School
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NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
44.1%
NJ avg 53.1% . +4.9pp since 2023
Math
33.1%
NJ avg 41.6% . -3.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 33 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 44.1% | 33.1% |
| 2023-24 | 39.2% | 36.3% |
% 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
31.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.3%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-18.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 31% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 49% 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 Spotswood Memorial Middle School
Spotswood Memorial Middle School's state test result (31.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spotswood Memorial Middle School this school | 269 | 30.9% | 31.3% |
| Richard Butler School BUTLER | 291 | 34.4% | 48.3% |
| Frank Antonides School West Long Branch | 220 | 24.5% | 58.1% |
| High Mountain School NORTH HALEDON | 259 | 23.6% | 48.3% |
| Ocean City Intermediate School OCEAN CITY | 326 | 29.8% | 50.4% |
| North Hanover Township Upper Elementary School WRIGHTSTOWN | 349 | 34.7% | 43.3% |
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 Spotswood Memorial Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Middlesex County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 31.3% | #327 of 433 | #29 of 39 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 33.1% | #289 of 437 ▼ 51 | #23 of 39 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.1% | #324 of 437 ▲ 11 | #28 of 39 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 269 | #385 of 445 | #38 of 40 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.8:1 | #204 of 417 | #17 of 39 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 53.1% | #235 of 419 | #31 of 40 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 30.9% | #226 of 436 | #27 of 40 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -25.7% | #29 of 282 | #8 of 23 |
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
269
-80 (-23%) vs 2020
+17% since 2000-01, when it was 229
Student : Teacher
10.8:1
was 11.6:1
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 | 269 | 25 | 10.8:1 | 31% (83) |
| 2023-24 | 293 | 25 | 11.7:1 | 22% (64) |
| 2022-23 | 337 | 29 | 11.6:1 | 18% (62) |
| 2020-21 | 349 | 30 | 11.6:1 | 14% (48) |
| 2017-18 | 362 | 30 | 12.1:1 | 16% (58) |
| 2015-16 | 323 | 30 | 10.8:1 | 15% (49) |
| 2010-11 | 338 | 22 | 15.4:1 | 14% (47) |
| 2000-01 | 229 | 17 | 13.5:1 | 6% (14) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Spotswood Memorial Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 26% (362 to 269); teachers down 17% (30 to 25).
About Spotswood Memorial Middle School
Spotswood Memorial Middle School is one of the public schools in SPOTSWOOD, New Jersey. It is a small middle school. Grades offered run from 6 through 8, with 269 students enrolled. For comparison, middle schools in New Jersey average about 578 students.
Within Spotswood Public School District, Spotswood Memorial Middle School is one of 4 schools. The district enrolls 1,631 students.
By race and ethnicity, Spotswood Memorial Middle School is 63% White. The school is also 26% Hispanic, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial, and 3% Black. That is higher than the 41% White share among all Middlesex County residents. The chance that two students picked at random at Spotswood Memorial Middle School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 53%.
The school reports 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 10.8 students per teacher. Middle schools in New Jersey have a similar average ratio of 10.9:1. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 31%. The 42% average for public schools in Middlesex County is 11 points higher.
Measured against New Jersey public middle schools, Spotswood Memorial Middle School receives a D. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Spotswood Memorial Middle School is in the bottom 10% of New Jersey schools on the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure. Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the model predicts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 49.3%. The school's actual rate is 31.3%, 18.0 points lower.
In Middlesex County (population about 871,290), median household income is about $111,549, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 46% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. Spotswood Memorial Middle School is one of 214 public schools in Middlesex County, which together enroll about 129,255 students.
The next-closest public school is Spotswood High School, about 0.1 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Nearby schools average 51.2% on proficiency, and Spotswood Memorial Middle School is below that at 31.3%.
For locale, NCES codes Spotswood Memorial Middle School as Suburb: Large.
The number of students dropped from 349 to 269 over 4 years.
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Middlesex County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
871,290
Census ACS
Median income
$111,549
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
46%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
214
129,255 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Spotswood Public School District
- Spotswood High SchoolHigh · 762 students
- E Raymond Appleby Elementary SchoolElementary · 365 students
- G Austin Schoenly Elementary SchoolElementary · 235 students
Other schools in SPOTSWOOD
- Spotswood High SchoolHigh · 762 students
- E Raymond Appleby Elementary SchoolElementary · 365 students
- G Austin Schoenly Elementary SchoolElementary · 235 students
Nearby schools
- Spotswood High School0.1 mi · 762
- G Austin Schoenly Elementary School0.3 mi · 235
- E Raymond Appleby Elementary School0.5 mi · 365
- Frost Elementary School1.0 mi · 383
- Bowne-Munro Elementary School1.3 mi · 201
- Hammarskjold Upper Elementary School1.4 mi · 1,221
Frequently asked questions
About Spotswood Memorial Middle SchoolHow large is Spotswood Memorial Middle School?
Spotswood Memorial Middle School enrolls approximately 269 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Spotswood Memorial Middle School serve?
Spotswood Memorial Middle School serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Spotswood Memorial Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Spotswood Memorial Middle School is approximately 10.8:1 (25 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Spotswood Memorial Middle School?
Spotswood Memorial Middle School reports a student body of 63% White, 26% Hispanic, 3% Black, 4% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is Spotswood Memorial Middle School in?
Spotswood Memorial Middle School is part of Spotswood Public School District.
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