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Enrollment
948
Middle
DISTRICT 937 · STATE 578
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MOUNT LAUREL TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341095001164
T. E. Harrington Middle School
514 MOUNT LAUREL ROAD, MOUNT LAUREL, NJ 08054 · (856) 234-1610 · Burlington County
GRADES 07–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL948 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 43% of New Jersey public middle schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
11.9:1
80 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.9:1 · STATE 10.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
23%
216 students
DISTRICT 21% · STATE 41%
Community
1
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 7 | 476 | 50% |
| Grade 8 | 472 | 50% |
Student demographics
71%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · 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 Mount Laurel Township School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
55.5%
NJ avg 53.1% . -0.4pp since 2023
Math
49.4%
NJ avg 41.6% . -0.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 49 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 55.5% | 49.4% |
| 2023-24 | 55.9% | 49.9% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
48.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
53.7%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 54% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New Jersey's top nor bottom 10%.
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 T. E. Harrington Middle School
T. E. Harrington Middle School's state test result (48.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| T. E. Harrington Middle School this school | 948 | 22.8% | 48.2% |
| Hartford Upper Elementary School MOUNT LAUREL | 926 | 21.3% | 48.4% |
| Voorhees Middle School VOORHEES | 979 | 17.2% | 59.1% |
| Carl Sandburg Middle School OLD BRIDGE | 926 | 30.7% | 48.9% |
| Mount Olive Middle School BUDD LAKE | 1,137 | 23.9% | 46.4% |
| Jonas Salk Middle School OLD BRIDGE | 886 | 25.1% | 50.8% |
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 T. E. Harrington Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Burlington County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 48.2% | #196 of 433 | #12 of 31 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 49.4% | #178 of 437 ▼ 25 | #11 of 31 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 55.5% | #254 of 437 ▼ 25 | #13 of 31 ▼ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 948 | #46 of 445 | #1 of 31 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.9:1 | #319 of 417 | #23 of 29 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.0% | #30 of 419 | #6 of 29 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 22.8% | #266 of 436 | #19 of 31 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.9% | #255 of 282 | #18 of 21 |
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
948
-13 (-1%) vs 2020
+6% since 1990-91, when it was 898
Student : Teacher
11.9:1
was 12.2:1
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 | 948 | 79.5 | 11.9:1 | 23% (216) |
| 2023-24 | 909 | 81.5 | 11.2:1 | 15% (140) |
| 2022-23 | 930 | 80.5 | 11.6:1 | 14% (127) |
| 2020-21 | 961 | 79 | 12.2:1 | 17% (165) |
| 2017-18 | 966 | 84.5 | 11.4:1 | 15% (142) |
| 2015-16 | 962 | 85 | 11.3:1 | 14% (134) |
| 2010-11 | 1,039 | 66 | 15.7:1 | 12% (127) |
| 2000-01 | 976 | 70 | 13.9:1 | 3% (29) |
| 1990-91 | 898 | 67 | 13.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for T. E. Harrington Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 2% (966 to 948); teachers down 6% (84.5 to 79.5).
About T. E. Harrington Middle School
MOUNT LAUREL, New Jersey, is home to T. E. Harrington Middle School, a large middle school. The school had 948 students in grades 7 through 8 in 2024-25. Average enrollment for middle schools in New Jersey is about 578, so this school runs 64% above that.
T. E. Harrington Middle School is one school in Mount Laurel Township School District, a system of 8 schools with 4,173 students.
White students are the largest group at T. E. Harrington Middle School, with 46% of enrollment. Other reported shares: 17% Black, 16% Asian, 12% Hispanic, and 8% multiracial. Burlington County's residents are about 64% White, 18 points above the school's share. The chance that two students picked at random at T. E. Harrington Middle School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 71%.
Federal records show a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.9:1 at T. E. Harrington Middle School, with 79.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. The 10.9:1 average for middle schools in New Jersey is lower than this school's figure. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility, a common measure of family income, is 23%. It compares with 32% for public schools in Burlington County.
The allk12 Grade for T. E. Harrington Middle School is C+. Compared with New Jersey public middle schools, the school scored higher than 43% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Test results at T. E. Harrington Middle School are 5.5 points below what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (48.2% actual, 53.7% predicted).
Burlington County census figures show that median household income is about $108,111, roughly 43% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. T. E. Harrington Middle School is among the 139 public schools in Burlington County.
The closest public school, Hillside Elementary School, is about 0.2 miles from T. E. Harrington Middle School. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. T. E. Harrington Middle School is 4th of 8 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
By NCES locale, the school is Suburb: Large, or in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal data show 961 students in 2020-21 and 948 in 2024-25, a difference of under 3%.
Posts about school safety, transportation, and start times are welcome on this page. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
Burlington County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
467,805
Census ACS
Median income
$108,111
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
43%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
139
69,020 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Mount Laurel Township School District
- Hartford Upper Elementary SchoolMiddle · 926 students
- Springville Elementary SchoolElementary · 480 students
- Fleetwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 404 students
- Hillside Elementary SchoolElementary · 386 students
- Larchmont Elementary SchoolElementary · 370 students
- Parkway Elementary SchoolElementary · 366 students
Other schools in MOUNT LAUREL
- Hartford Upper Elementary SchoolMiddle · 926 students
- Fleetwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 404 students
- Hillside Elementary SchoolElementary · 386 students
- Larchmont Elementary SchoolElementary · 370 students
- Parkway Elementary SchoolElementary · 366 students
- Countryside Elementary SchoolElementary · 293 students
Nearby schools
- Hillside Elementary School0.2 mi · 386
- Springville Elementary School1.1 mi · 480
- Hartford Upper Elementary School1.4 mi · 926
- Lenape High School1.9 mi · 1,912
- Frances DeMasi Elementary School2.2 mi · 332
- Frances DeMasi Middle School2.2 mi · 720
Frequently asked questions
About T. E. Harrington Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at T. E. Harrington Middle School?
T. E. Harrington Middle School enrolls approximately 948 students in grades 07-08.
Is T. E. Harrington Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
T. E. Harrington Middle School is a middle school covering grades 07-08.
How many teachers does T. E. Harrington Middle School have?
T. E. Harrington Middle School employs 80 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.9:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at T. E. Harrington Middle School?
At T. E. Harrington Middle School, the student body is approximately 46% White, 12% Hispanic, 17% Black, 16% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees T. E. Harrington Middle School?
T. E. Harrington Middle School is overseen by Mount Laurel Township School District in Burlington County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.