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Enrollment
954
Middle
DISTRICT 1,038 · STATE 578
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EDISON TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340450003332
Thomas Jefferson Middle School
450 DIVISION STREET, EDISON, NJ 08817 · (732) 650-5290 · Middlesex County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL954 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 43% of New Jersey public middle schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
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
14.0:1
68 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.3:1 · STATE 10.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
46%
435 students
DISTRICT 30% · 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 | 325 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 318 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 311 | 33% |
Student demographics
70%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 55% · 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
55.9%
NJ avg 53.1% . +0.4pp since 2023
Math
37.5%
NJ avg 41.6% . +0.7pp 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 38 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 | 55.9% | 37.5% |
| 2023-24 | 55.5% | 36.8% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
39.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.2%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% 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 Jefferson Middle School
Thomas Jefferson Middle School's state test result (39.9% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Jefferson Middle School this school | 954 | 45.6% | 39.9% |
| Herbert Hoover Middle School EDISON | 1,060 | 44.3% | 40.1% |
| Theodore Schor Middle School PISCATAWAY | 563 | 47.4% | 44.7% |
| Middle School # 4 JERSEY CITY | 755 | 55.5% | 50.8% |
| Iselin Middle School ISELIN | 794 | 36.1% | 52.3% |
| Quibbletown Middle School PISCATAWAY | 467 | 53.5% | 41.7% |
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 Jefferson Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Middlesex County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 39.9% | #258 of 433 | #18 of 39 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 37.5% | #243 of 437 ▼ 8 | #20 of 39 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 55.9% | #250 of 437 ▼ 18 | #17 of 39 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 954 | #45 of 445 | #9 of 40 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.0:1 | #391 of 417 | #38 of 39 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.4% | #37 of 419 | #10 of 40 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 45.6% | #162 of 436 | #20 of 40 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +28.2% | #17 of 122 | #5 of 14 |
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
954
+84 (+10%) vs 2020
+65% since 1990-91, when it was 579
Student : Teacher
14.0:1
was 11.8:1
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 | 954 | 68.2 | 14.0:1 | 46% (435) |
| 2023-24 | 948 | 74.7 | 12.7:1 | 41% (386) |
| 2022-23 | 909 | 71.7 | 12.7:1 | 36% (324) |
| 2020-21 | 870 | 74 | 11.8:1 | 22% (189) |
| 2017-18 | 744 | 66.2 | 11.2:1 | 36% (265) |
| 2015-16 | 741 | 74 | 10.0:1 | 36% (264) |
| 2010-11 | 774 | 70 | 11.1:1 | 27% (207) |
| 2000-01 | 800 | 59 | 13.6:1 | 16% (126) |
| 1990-91 | 579 | 40 | 14.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Thomas Jefferson Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 28% (744 to 954); teachers up 3% (66.2 to 68.2).
About Thomas Jefferson Middle School
Thomas Jefferson Middle School is a large middle school serving families in EDISON, New Jersey. There are 954 students enrolled, covering grades 6 through 8. That puts enrollment 65% larger than the 578-student average for middle schools in New Jersey.
Enrollment across the 19 schools in Edison Township School District totals 16,617 students.
The largest group at Thomas Jefferson Middle School is Asian students, at 44%. Smaller groups are 26% Hispanic, 15% Black, 12% White, and 2% multiracial. For comparison, the population of Middlesex County is roughly 26% Asian. The diversity index for Thomas Jefferson Middle School is 70%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
There are about 14.0 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at Thomas Jefferson Middle School, which has 68.2. By comparison, the average for middle schools in New Jersey is 10.9:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at Thomas Jefferson Middle School is about 46%.
Among New Jersey public middle schools, Thomas Jefferson Middle School outscored 43%, which works out to a C+ on the allk12 Grade.
A school with Thomas Jefferson Middle School's lunch-eligibility share in New Jersey is predicted to score 41.2%. Thomas Jefferson Middle School scores 39.9%, 1.3 points below that line.
The school is in Middlesex County, where the median household earns about $111,549 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 46% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. Thomas Jefferson Middle School shares Middlesex County with 213 other public schools.
Among nearby public schools, John Marshall Elementary School is closest at about 0.5 miles. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Thomas Jefferson Middle School. On state test proficiency, Thomas Jefferson Middle School ranks 3rd in a group of 6 nearby schools.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Suburb: Large.
Enrollment increased 10% over 4 years, reaching 954 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio increased from 11.8:1 in 2020-21 to 14.0:1 in 2024-25.
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Middlesex County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
871,290
Census ACS
Median income
$111,549
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
46%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
214
129,255 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Edison Township School District
- John P. Stevens High SchoolHigh · 2,687 students
- Edison High SchoolHigh · 2,393 students
- Woodrow Wilson Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,206 students
- Herbert Hoover Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,060 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolElementary · 946 students
- John Adams Middle SchoolMiddle · 930 students
Other schools in EDISON
- John P. Stevens High SchoolHigh · 2,687 students
- Edison High SchoolHigh · 2,393 students
- Woodrow Wilson Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,206 students
- Herbert Hoover Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,060 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolElementary · 946 students
- John Adams Middle SchoolMiddle · 930 students
Other Thomas Jefferson Middle schools
17 other US public schools in 12 states are named Thomas Jefferson Middle. Thomas Jefferson Middle School is the 2nd largest of the 18.
- Thomas Jefferson Middle SchoolFAIR LAWN, NJ · 1,100 students
- Thomas Jefferson Middle SchoolLODI, NJ · 686 students
- Thomas Jefferson Middle SchoolTEANECK, NJ · 510 students
- Thomas Jefferson Middle SchoolROCKAWAY, NJ · 299 students
- Thomas Jefferson MiddleMadera, CA · 948 students
Nearby schools
- John Marshall Elementary School0.5 mi · 762
- Lindeneau Elementary School0.8 mi · 446
- Washington Elementary School0.8 mi · 630
- Irving Primary School1.0 mi · 326
- Future Foundations Academy (FFA)1.1 mi · 130
- Piscataway Magnet School1.1 mi · 640
Frequently asked questions
About Thomas Jefferson Middle SchoolHow large is Thomas Jefferson Middle School?
Thomas Jefferson Middle School enrolls approximately 954 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Thomas Jefferson Middle School serve?
Thomas Jefferson Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Thomas Jefferson Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Thomas Jefferson Middle School is approximately 14.0:1 (68 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Thomas Jefferson Middle School?
At Thomas Jefferson Middle School, the student body is approximately 12% White, 26% Hispanic, 15% Black, 44% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is Thomas Jefferson Middle School public or private?
Thomas Jefferson Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Edison Township School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.