Thomas Jefferson Middle School

Thomas Jefferson Middle School operates as a reasonably sized 6-8 campus in LODI, New Jersey, part of Lodi School District. Current enrollment sits at 686 students spanning grades 6 through 8.

Within Lodi School District, which oversees 7 schools and 3,082 students, Thomas Jefferson Middle School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Thomas Jefferson Middle School logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 64% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 21% White, 7% Asian, 6% Black. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 10.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 66% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Bergen County runs at roughly 28%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Thomas Jefferson Middle School ranks in the top 10% of New Jersey public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 30.1%; Thomas Jefferson Middle School posts 53.3%, +23.2 points above that line.

Around the school, Bergen County reports that the typical household earns roughly $124,884 per year, roughly 53% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Thomas Jefferson Middle School is one of 291 public schools in Bergen County (combined enrollment of about 133,883 students).

Nearest neighbor: Roosevelt School, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Thomas Jefferson Middle School comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 51.7%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 5%: 724 students in 2018 compared to 686 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 56% to 64%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 in 2025.

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