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Enrollment
800
Middle
DISTRICT 719 · STATE 578
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WESTFIELD PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341776005768
Thomas Edison Intermediate School
800 Rahway Avenue, Westfield, NJ 07090 · (908) 789-4470 · Union County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL800 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 76% of New Jersey public middle schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
74 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.5:1 · STATE 10.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
3%
21 students
DISTRICT 2% · 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 6 | 298 | 37% |
| Grade 7 | 254 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 248 | 31% |
Student demographics
49%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 44% · 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
Thomas Edison Intermediate School→Westfield Senior High School
Based on grade levels within Westfield Public School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
75.0%
NJ avg 53.1% . +2.8pp since 2023
Math
72.0%
NJ avg 41.6% . +5.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 75 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 72 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 75.0% | 72.0% |
| 2023-24 | 72.2% | 66.2% |
% 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
64.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
64.7%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 65% 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 Thomas Edison Intermediate School
Thomas Edison Intermediate School's state test result (64.3% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Edison Intermediate School this school | 800 | 2.6% | 64.3% |
| Chatham Middle School CHATHAM | 833 | 2.8% | 59.1% |
| Terrill Middle School SCOTCH PLAINS | 822 | 1.9% | 59.4% |
| Timberlane Middle School PENNINGTON | 803 | 6.6% | 57.0% |
| George Washington Middle School RIDGEWOOD | 644 | 1.9% | 69.6% |
| Marlboro Middle School MARLBORO | 935 | 8.2% | 58.0% |
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 Thomas Edison Intermediate School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Union County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 64.3% | #65 of 433 | #9 of 25 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 72.0% | #44 of 437 ▲ 12 | #4 of 25 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 75.0% | #97 of 437 ▼ 4 | #10 of 25 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 800 | #89 of 445 | #7 of 26 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.8:1 | #207 of 417 | #8 of 25 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 49.5% | #263 of 419 | #17 of 25 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 2.6% | #408 of 436 | #21 of 25 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.8% | #214 of 282 | #6 of 13 |
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
800
+3 (+0%) vs 2020
+65% since 1990-91, when it was 485
Student : Teacher
10.8:1
was 11.1:1
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 | 800 | 74.3 | 10.8:1 | 3% (21) |
| 2023-24 | 774 | 74.1 | 10.4:1 | 3% (21) |
| 2022-23 | 781 | 72.5 | 10.8:1 | 2% (18) |
| 2020-21 | 797 | 72 | 11.1:1 | 2% (13) |
| 2017-18 | 840 | 71.4 | 11.8:1 | 5% (39) |
| 2015-16 | 823 | 68 | 12.1:1 | 3% (25) |
| 2010-11 | 769 | 44 | 17.5:1 | 4% (33) |
| 2000-01 | 645 | 55 | 11.7:1 | 3% (22) |
| 1990-91 | 485 | 33 | 14.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Thomas Edison Intermediate School.
Since 2017-18: students down 5% (840 to 800); teachers up 4% (71.4 to 74.3).
About Thomas Edison Intermediate School
A mid-sized middle-grades school in Westfield, New Jersey, Thomas Edison Intermediate School is part of Westfield Public School District. It has an enrollment of 800 students in grades 6 through 8. On average, middle schools in New Jersey enroll around 578, and this school is 38% bigger than that mark.
Westfield Public School District operates 10 schools. Combined enrollment is 5,838 students.
More than half of the students at Thomas Edison Intermediate School are White (69%). The remaining shares are 15% Asian, 8% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, and 3% Black. Census estimates put the White share of Union County's population at about 39%. The diversity index for Thomas Edison Intermediate School is 49%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Its staff includes 74.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 10.8 students per teacher. The 10.9:1 average for middle schools in New Jersey is close to this figure. Roughly 3% of students at Thomas Edison Intermediate School can receive free or reduced-price lunch. The 52% average for public schools in Union County is 49 points higher.
Thomas Edison Intermediate School earns an A- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 76% of New Jersey public middle schools.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Thomas Edison Intermediate School is -0.4 points: 64.3% actual, 64.7% predicted.
For Union County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $103,202, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 39%, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. The county has 180 public schools and about 99,046 students.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Lincoln Early Childhood Center, is about 0.2 miles. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On state test proficiency, Thomas Edison Intermediate School ranks 5th in a group of 5 nearby schools.
Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Large: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over 4 years, enrollment stayed close to where it was, going from 797 to 800.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about fundraisers, report cards, and school supplies at Thomas Edison Intermediate School. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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
Related schools
Other schools in Westfield Public School District
- Westfield Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,776 students
- Roosevelt Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 638 students
- Franklin Elementary SchoolElementary · 509 students
- Jefferson Elementary SchoolElementary · 467 students
- Tamaques Elementary SchoolElementary · 427 students
- Wilson Elementary SchoolElementary · 362 students
Other schools in Westfield
- Westfield Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,776 students
- Roosevelt Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 638 students
- Franklin Elementary SchoolElementary · 509 students
- Jefferson Elementary SchoolElementary · 467 students
- Tamaques Elementary SchoolElementary · 427 students
- Wilson Elementary SchoolElementary · 362 students
Nearby schools
- Lincoln Early Childhood Center0.2 mi · 268
- Tamaques Elementary School0.3 mi · 427
- Westfield Senior High School0.6 mi · 1,776
- Jefferson Elementary School0.7 mi · 467
- McKinley Elementary School0.8 mi · 291
- Westlake1.1 mi · 46
Frequently asked questions
About Thomas Edison Intermediate SchoolHow many students attend Thomas Edison Intermediate School?
Thomas Edison Intermediate School enrolls approximately 800 students in grades 06-08.
Is Thomas Edison Intermediate School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Thomas Edison Intermediate School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Thomas Edison Intermediate School have?
Thomas Edison Intermediate School employs 74 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.8:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Thomas Edison Intermediate School?
At Thomas Edison Intermediate School, the student body is approximately 69% White, 8% Hispanic, 3% Black, 15% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Thomas Edison Intermediate School?
Thomas Edison Intermediate School is overseen by Westfield Public School District in Union County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.