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Enrollment
1,100
Middle
DISTRICT 878 · STATE 578
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FAIR LAWN PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340498000053
Thomas Jefferson Middle School
35 - 01 MORLOT AVENUE, FAIR LAWN, NJ 07410 · (201) 703-2240 · Bergen County
GRADES 05–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL1,100 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 92% 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.
- ABeats 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
11.4:1
97 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.5:1 · STATE 10.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
17%
183 students
DISTRICT 19% · 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 5 | 256 | 23% |
| Grade 6 | 265 | 24% |
| Grade 7 | 285 | 26% |
| Grade 8 | 294 | 27% |
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · 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 Jefferson Middle School→Fair Lawn High School
Based on grade levels within Fair Lawn Public School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
83.5%
NJ avg 53.1% . +5.2pp since 2023
Math
70.6%
NJ avg 41.6% . +5.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 84 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 71 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 83.5% | 70.6% |
| 2023-24 | 78.3% | 65.4% |
% 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
68.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.1%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 68% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% 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 (68.4% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Jefferson Middle School this school | 1,100 | 16.6% | 68.4% |
| Randolph Middle School RANDOLPH | 959 | 14.7% | 53.7% |
| Lawton C. Johnson Summit Middle School SUMMIT | 871 | 15.5% | 69.8% |
| Mount Olive Middle School BUDD LAKE | 1,137 | 23.9% | 46.4% |
| Princeton Middle School PRINCETON | 794 | 13.6% | 74.1% |
| Voorhees Middle School VOORHEES | 979 | 17.2% | 59.1% |
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 Thomas Jefferson Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Bergen County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 68.4% | #42 of 433 | #10 of 52 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 70.6% | #52 of 437 ▲ 10 | #14 of 53 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 83.5% | #39 of 437 ▲ 14 | #11 of 53 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,100 | #23 of 445 | #3 of 53 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.4:1 | #268 of 417 | #34 of 52 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.5% | #137 of 419 | #18 of 52 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 16.6% | #305 of 436 | #25 of 52 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +51.5% | #5 of 122 | #4 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
1,100
+63 (+6%) vs 2020
+62% since 2000-01, when it was 681
Student : Teacher
11.4:1
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 | 1,100 | 96.8 | 11.4:1 | 17% (183) |
| 2023-24 | 1,145 | 94.6 | 12.1:1 | 12% (138) |
| 2022-23 | 1,134 | 91.6 | 12.4:1 | 10% (113) |
| 2020-21 | 1,037 | 85 | 12.2:1 | 8% (79) |
| 2017-18 | 726 | 60.9 | 11.9:1 | 9% (68) |
| 2015-16 | 674 | 54 | 12.5:1 | 11% (73) |
| 2010-11 | 703 | 55 | 12.8:1 | 8% (58) |
| 2000-01 | 681 | 47 | 14.5:1 | 4% (30) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Thomas Jefferson Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 52% (726 to 1,100); teachers up 59% (60.9 to 96.8).
About Thomas Jefferson Middle School
Thomas Jefferson Middle School is a large middle-grades school in FAIR LAWN, New Jersey, under Fair Lawn Public School District. The school counts 1,100 students across grades 5 through 8. The typical figure for middle schools in New Jersey is about 578 students.
Thomas Jefferson Middle School is in Fair Lawn Public School District, a district with 5,472 students across 9 schools.
Thomas Jefferson Middle School is 54% White by enrollment. The remaining students are 20% Hispanic, 20% Asian, 3% multiracial, and 2% Black. The county population is about 55% White, within a few points of the school. Pick two students at random and there is a 63% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Teacher staffing is 96.8 full-time equivalents, or about 11.4 students per teacher. That matches the 10.9:1 average for middle schools in New Jersey fairly closely. Eligibility for subsidized school meals is 17%. Across public schools in Bergen County, the average is 28%.
Thomas Jefferson Middle School is graded A by allk12, scoring above 92% of New Jersey public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Thomas Jefferson Middle School is +11.3 points: 68.4% actual, 57.1% predicted.
Bergen County has these Census figures: the median household income is $124,884, roughly 53% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Bergen County is home to 291 public schools and about 133,883 public school students.
Of nearby public schools, Henry B. Milnes Elementary School is the closest, at about 0.1 miles. Thomas Jefferson Middle School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Among 9 nearby schools that report test results, Thomas Jefferson Middle School ranks 5th on proficiency.
Federal data place Thomas Jefferson Middle School in the Suburb: Large locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment has grown by 63 students since 2020-21, to 1,100.
Questions about school safety, transportation, and start times can be posted here. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
Bergen County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
962,316
Census ACS
Median income
$124,884
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
53%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
291
133,883 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Fair Lawn Public School District
- Fair Lawn High SchoolHigh · 1,687 students
- Memorial Middle SchoolMiddle · 655 students
- Radburn Elementary SchoolElementary · 445 students
- Henry B. Milnes Elementary SchoolElementary · 392 students
- Warren Point Elementary SchoolElementary · 391 students
- Westmoreland Elementary SchoolElementary · 359 students
Other schools in FAIR LAWN
- Fair Lawn High SchoolHigh · 1,687 students
- Memorial Middle SchoolMiddle · 655 students
- Radburn Elementary SchoolElementary · 445 students
- Henry B. Milnes Elementary SchoolElementary · 392 students
- Warren Point Elementary SchoolElementary · 391 students
- Westmoreland Elementary SchoolElementary · 359 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 largest of the 18.
- Thomas Jefferson Middle SchoolEDISON, NJ · 954 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
- Henry B. Milnes Elementary School0.1 mi · 392
- Warren Point Elementary School0.6 mi · 391
- Radburn Elementary School1.0 mi · 445
- Fair Lawn High School1.1 mi · 1,687
- Lyncrest Elementary School1.2 mi · 185
- Salome H. Long Memorial School1.3 mi · 304
Frequently asked questions
About Thomas Jefferson Middle SchoolHow large is Thomas Jefferson Middle School?
Thomas Jefferson Middle School enrolls approximately 1,100 students in grades 05-08.
What age range does Thomas Jefferson Middle School serve?
Thomas Jefferson Middle School serves students from grade 05 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 11.4:1 (97 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Thomas Jefferson Middle School?
At Thomas Jefferson Middle School, the student body is approximately 54% White, 20% Hispanic, 2% Black, 20% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is Thomas Jefferson Middle School public or private?
Thomas Jefferson Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Fair Lawn Public School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.