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Enrollment
1,130
Middle
DISTRICT 1,135 · STATE 578
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ELIZABETH PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 340459000013
Terence C. Reilly School No 7
436 First Avenue, ELIZABETH, NJ 07206 · (908) 436-6030 · Union County
GRADES 02–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,130 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 96% of New Jersey public middle schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats 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
14.1:1
80 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.2:1 · STATE 10.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
78%
887 students
DISTRICT 83% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 112 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 122 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 158 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 155 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 150 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 148 | 13% |
| Grade 7 | 147 | 13% |
| Grade 8 | 138 | 12% |
Student demographics
42%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 38% · 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
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
87.1%
NJ avg 53.1% . +3.7pp since 2023
Math
62.2%
NJ avg 41.6% . +3.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 87 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 62 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 87.1% | 62.2% |
| 2023-24 | 83.4% | 58.7% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NJ schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
69.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
23.2%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+46.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 70% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 23% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 46 points, placing it in New Jersey's top 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 Terence C. Reilly School No 7
Terence C. Reilly School No 7's state test result (69.5% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Terence C. Reilly School No 7 this school | 1,130 | 78.5% | 69.5% |
| William F. Halloran School No.22 ELIZABETH | 1,140 | 78.1% | 67.8% |
| Long Branch Middle School LONG BRANCH | 1,142 | 81.6% | 22.6% |
| Franklin L. Williams School JERSEY CITY | 906 | 81.9% | 25.5% |
| Hackensack Middle School Hackensack | 1,399 | 70.7% | 26.9% |
| Howard M. Phifer Middle School PENNSAUKEN | 988 | 81.4% | 21.9% |
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 Terence C. Reilly School No 7 ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Union County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 69.5% | #33 of 433 | #5 of 25 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 62.2% | #95 of 437 ▲ 4 | #10 of 25 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 87.1% | #18 of 437 ▲ 8 | #2 of 25 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,130 | #19 of 445 | #2 of 26 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.1:1 | #394 of 417 | #24 of 25 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 42.1% | #321 of 419 | #21 of 25 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 78.5% | #40 of 436 | #2 of 25 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +4.9% | #79 of 122 | #8 of 12 |
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
1,130
+18 (+2%) vs 2020
+391% since 2000-01, when it was 230
Student : Teacher
14.1:1
was 13.9:1
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 | 1,130 | 80 | 14.1:1 | 78% (887) |
| 2023-24 | 1,147 | 75 | 15.3:1 | 75% (865) |
| 2022-23 | 1,126 | 78.5 | 14.3:1 | 76% (853) |
| 2020-21 | 1,112 | 80 | 13.9:1 | 63% (696) |
| 2017-18 | 1,077 | 77 | 14.0:1 | 70% (755) |
| 2015-16 | 1,034 | 73 | 14.2:1 | 76% (786) |
| 2010-11 | 911 | 53 | 17.2:1 | 89% (810) |
| 2000-01 | 230 | 22 | 10.4:1 | 46% (106) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Terence C. Reilly School No 7.
Since 2017-18: students up 5% (1,077 to 1,130); teachers up 4% (77 to 80).
About Terence C. Reilly School No 7
Terence C. Reilly School No 7 is a large middle school in ELIZABETH, New Jersey, (ZIP code 07206). Its enrollment is 1,130 students, spread over grades 2 through 8. Across middle schools in New Jersey, the average enrollment is about 578.
Terence C. Reilly School No 7 is one of 37 schools in Elizabeth Public Schools, which enrolls 27,580 students in total.
More than half of the students at Terence C. Reilly School No 7 are Hispanic (74%). Beyond that, enrollment is 14% Black, 7% White, and 4% Asian. In Union County overall, about 35% of residents are Hispanic. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Terence C. Reilly School No 7 scores 42%.
Classroom staffing at Terence C. Reilly School No 7 totals 80 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 14.1:1. Statewide, middle schools in New Jersey average 10.9:1. Federal data show 78% of students (887) are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Across public schools in Union County, the average is 52%.
Among New Jersey public middle schools, Terence C. Reilly School No 7 outscored 96%, which works out to an A+ on the allk12 Grade.
Terence C. Reilly School No 7 beats its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results by 46.3 points (69.5% versus 23.2%), a top-10% result in New Jersey on BeatsExpectations.
In Union County, where the school is located, the median household earns about $103,202 a year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of people live in poverty. Counting Terence C. Reilly School No 7, Union County has 180 public schools.
Of the public schools around it, Terence C. Reilly School No 7 is closest to Sonia Sotomayor School No 25, about 0.1 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 22.9%; Terence C. Reilly School No 7's is 69.5%, ranking 1st of 9.
The NCES locale for Terence C. Reilly School No 7 is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The student count changed little between 2020-21 (1,112) and 2024-25 (1,130).
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Union County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
579,290
Census ACS
Median income
$103,202
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
180
99,046 students
Quick facts
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Other schools in ELIZABETH
- John E. Dwyer Technology AcademyHigh · 1,348 students
- Admiral William F. Halsey Jr. Health & Public Safety AcademyHigh · 1,272 students
- Elizabeth High School - Frank J Cicarell AcademyHigh · 1,268 students
- Thomas Jefferson Arts AcademyHigh · 1,144 students
- William F. Halloran School No.22Middle · 1,140 students
- Alexander Hamilton Preparatory AcademyHigh · 1,015 students
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- Sonia Sotomayor School No 250.1 mi · 591
- Christopher Columbus School No. 150.2 mi · 672
- Nicholas S. Lacorte-Peterstown School No. 30.4 mi · 765
- Jerome Dunn Academy No 90.5 mi · 856
- George Washington Academy School No. 10.5 mi · 595
- John Marshal School No. 200.6 mi · 452
Frequently asked questions
About Terence C. Reilly School No 7How many students attend Terence C. Reilly School No 7?
Terence C. Reilly School No 7 enrolls approximately 1,130 students in grades 02-08.
Is Terence C. Reilly School No 7 an elementary, middle, or high school?
Terence C. Reilly School No 7 is a middle school covering grades 02-08.
How many teachers does Terence C. Reilly School No 7 have?
Terence C. Reilly School No 7 employs 80 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.1:1.
How diverse is Terence C. Reilly School No 7?
Terence C. Reilly School No 7 reports a student body of 7% White, 74% Hispanic, 14% Black, 4% Asian.
What district is Terence C. Reilly School No 7 in?
Terence C. Reilly School No 7 is part of Elizabeth Public Schools.
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