Enrollment
291
Middle
DISTRICT 371 · STATE 578
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SUSSEX-WANTAGE REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341596005410
Sussex Middle School
10 LOOMIS AVENUE, SUSSEX, NJ 07461 · (973) 875-4138 · Sussex County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE41-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL291 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 14% of New Jersey public middle schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
8.6:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.9:1 · STATE 10.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
32%
94 students
DISTRICT 34% · 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 | 84 | 29% |
| Grade 7 | 110 | 38% |
| Grade 8 | 97 | 33% |
Student demographics
34%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 30% · 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
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Sussex-Wantage Regional School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
58.5%
NJ avg 53.1% . +13.2pp since 2023
Math
35.5%
NJ avg 41.6% . +6.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 36 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 13 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 58.5% | 35.5% |
| 2023-24 | 45.3% | 28.8% |
% 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
33.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.5%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-14.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 34% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 48% 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 Sussex Middle School
Sussex Middle School's state test result (33.8% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sussex Middle School this school | 291 | 32.3% | 33.8% |
| Ocean City Intermediate School OCEAN CITY | 326 | 29.8% | 50.4% |
| Southampton Township School #3 SOUTHAMPTON | 253 | 24.1% | 52.3% |
| Caroline L. Reutter School FRANKLINVILLE | 388 | 26.5% | 42.8% |
| Hazlet Middle School HAZLET | 376 | 25.0% | 34.7% |
| Dennis Township Elementary/Middle Schools DENNISVILLE | 391 | 35.5% | 33.1% |
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 Sussex Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Sussex County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 33.8% | #310 of 433 | #8 of 9 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 35.5% | #271 of 437 ▲ 31 | #6 of 9 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 58.5% | #236 of 437 ▲ 57 | #5 of 9 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 291 | #378 of 445 | #5 of 9 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.6:1 | #34 of 417 | #2 of 8 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 34.2% | #364 of 419 | #8 of 8 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 32.3% | #219 of 436 | #3 of 9 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.2% | #148 of 282 | #6 of 6 |
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
291
-35 (-11%) vs 2020
-42% since 1990-91, when it was 506
Student : Teacher
8.6:1
was 10.9:1
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 | 291 | 34 | 8.6:1 | 32% (94) |
| 2023-24 | 313 | 34 | 9.2:1 | 27% (83) |
| 2022-23 | 312 | 35 | 8.9:1 | 26% (80) |
| 2020-21 | 326 | 30 | 10.9:1 | 28% (90) |
| 2017-18 | 324 | 34 | 9.5:1 | 26% (83) |
| 2015-16 | 346 | 36 | 9.6:1 | 25% (86) |
| 2010-11 | 495 | 26 | 19.0:1 | 18% (87) |
| 2000-01 | 634 | 49 | 12.9:1 | 18% (111) |
| 1990-91 | 506 | 39 | 13.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sussex Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 10% (324 to 291); teachers unchanged (34 to 34).
About Sussex Middle School
A low-enrollment middle school in SUSSEX, New Jersey, Sussex Middle School is part of Sussex-Wantage Regional School District. The latest federal count shows 291 students in grades 6 through 8. Against the 578-student average for middle schools in New Jersey, enrollment here is 50% lower.
Sussex-Wantage Regional School District has 3 schools; together they serve 1,113 students.
Sussex Middle School's enrollment is 80% White. After that, the student body is 12% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, and 2% Black. For comparison, Sussex County is about 82% White. Pick two students at random and there is a 34% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Sussex Middle School employs 34 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 8.6:1. This ratio sits 2.3 below the 10.9:1 average for middle schools in New Jersey. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility was 32% in 2024-25. That is 9 points above the 23% average for public schools in Sussex County.
The allk12 Grade for Sussex Middle School is D. Compared with New Jersey public middle schools, the school scored higher than 14% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
The school's average proficiency rate on state tests, 33.8%, is 14.7 points below the 48.5% the model predicts from its free or reduced-price lunch share. That result is in the bottom 10% of New Jersey schools.
Federal survey data for Sussex County show that the median household income is $116,186, roughly 40% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. There are 46 public schools in Sussex County, enrolling about 19,579 students in all.
The closest public school to Sussex Middle School is Clifton E. Lawrence, about 1.6 miles away. Sussex Middle School is one of several public schools in the area, with 6 others within five miles. Sussex Middle School comes in 6th of 7 nearby schools on average proficiency.
In the federal locale system, Sussex Middle School is coded Rural: Fringe, for schools in rural territory close to an urban area.
Enrollment is down 11% from 2020-21, when Sussex Middle School had 326 students, to 2024-25, when it had 291. The ratio was 10.9:1 in 2020-21 and 8.6:1 in 2024-25.
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Sussex County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
145,807
Census ACS
Median income
$116,186
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
40%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
46
19,579 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Sussex-Wantage Regional School District
- Clifton E. LawrenceElementary · 426 students
- Wantage Elementary SchoolElementary · 396 students
Nearby schools
- Clifton E. Lawrence1.6 mi · 426
- Wantage Elementary School1.6 mi · 396
- High Point Regional High School District1.8 mi · 791
- Wallkill Valley Regional High School3.9 mi · 581
- Hamburg School4.2 mi · 246
- Hardyston Township Middle School5.0 mi · 261
Frequently asked questions
About Sussex Middle SchoolHow many students attend Sussex Middle School?
Sussex Middle School enrolls approximately 291 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Sussex Middle School serve?
Sussex Middle School serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Sussex Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Sussex Middle School is approximately 8.6:1 (34 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Sussex Middle School?
Student demographics at Sussex Middle School are roughly 80% White, 12% Hispanic, 2% Black, 1% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is Sussex Middle School in?
Sussex Middle School is part of Sussex-Wantage Regional School District.
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