Spotswood Memorial Middle School

Located at 115 SUMMERHILL ROAD, in SPOTSWOOD, New Jersey, Spotswood Memorial Middle School is a compact middle-grades school that enrolls 269 students (grades 6 through 8), one of the schools within Spotswood Public School District. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 578 students each, so Spotswood Memorial Middle School sits 53% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 4 schools in Spotswood Public School District (1,631 students total), Spotswood Memorial Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Spotswood Memorial Middle School logs that 63% of the student body identifies as White; the rest breaks down as 26% Hispanic, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial, 3% Black. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Spotswood Memorial Middle School shows 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 31% of students at Spotswood Memorial Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Middlesex County (around 42%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Spotswood Memorial Middle School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 49.3%; actual is 31.3%, a gap of -18.0 points.

In the area at large, census data for Middlesex County shows median household earnings sit near $111,549, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Middlesex County's 214 public schools (combined enrollment of about 129,255 students), Spotswood Memorial Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Spotswood High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Spotswood Memorial Middle School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 51.2%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Spotswood Memorial Middle School has declined 26%, going from 362 students in 2018 to 269 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 13% to 26% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 12.1:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 in 2025.

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