Enrollment
299
Middle
DISTRICT 286 · STATE 578
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ROCKAWAY BOROUGH SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341410004502
Thomas Jefferson Middle School
95 EAST MAIN STREET, ROCKAWAY, NJ 07866 · (973) 625-8603 · Morris County
GRADES 04–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL299 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 59% of New Jersey public middle schools
- BTest 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.
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
9.5:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.0:1 · STATE 10.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
32%
97 students
DISTRICT 30% · STATE 41%
Community
0
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 4 | 63 | 21% |
| Grade 5 | 61 | 20% |
| Grade 6 | 58 | 19% |
| Grade 7 | 52 | 17% |
| Grade 8 | 65 | 22% |
Student demographics
62%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 62% · 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
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Rockaway Borough School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
55.3%
NJ avg 53.1% . -1.4pp since 2023
Math
46.1%
NJ avg 41.6% . -0.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 46 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 1 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 55.3% | 46.1% |
| 2023-24 | 56.7% | 46.9% |
% 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
48.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.4%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% 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 (48.7% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Jefferson Middle School this school | 299 | 32.4% | 48.7% |
| Lakeside School POMPTON LAKES | 370 | 34.9% | 47.9% |
| Richard Butler School BUTLER | 291 | 34.4% | 48.3% |
| North Hanover Township Upper Elementary School WRIGHTSTOWN | 349 | 34.7% | 43.3% |
| Mount Arlington Public School MT ARLINGTON | 223 | 26.0% | 53.7% |
| Spotswood Memorial Middle School SPOTSWOOD | 269 | 30.9% | 31.3% |
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 Morris County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 48.7% | #186 of 433 | #23 of 32 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 46.1% | #198 of 437 ▼ 27 | #24 of 32 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 55.3% | #257 of 437 ▼ 35 | #28 of 32 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 299 | #374 of 445 | #26 of 32 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.5:1 | #87 of 417 | #10 of 32 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.3% | #138 of 419 | #6 of 32 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 32.4% | #217 of 436 | #6 of 32 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.1% | #105 of 282 | #9 of 21 |
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
299
+16 (+6%) vs 2020
+64% since 1990-91, when it was 182
Student : Teacher
9.5:1
was 10.9:1
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 | 299 | 31.5 | 9.5:1 | 32% (97) |
| 2023-24 | 278 | 31 | 9.0:1 | 24% (68) |
| 2022-23 | 271 | 29.5 | 9.2:1 | 23% (61) |
| 2020-21 | 283 | 26 | 10.9:1 | 26% (73) |
| 2017-18 | 348 | 24.2 | 14.4:1 | 22% (75) |
| 2015-16 | 343 | 26 | 13.2:1 | 22% (76) |
| 2010-11 | 367 | 21 | 17.5:1 | 20% (73) |
| 2000-01 | 351 | 21 | 16.7:1 | 16% (56) |
| 1990-91 | 182 | 15 | 12.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Thomas Jefferson Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 14% (348 to 299); teachers up 30% (24.2 to 31.5).
About Thomas Jefferson Middle School
Thomas Jefferson Middle School is a small middle-grades school with an address in ROCKAWAY, New Jersey. It had 299 students in 2024-25, spanning grades 4 through 8. Middle schools in New Jersey average about 578 students, which makes this school 48% below average.
Thomas Jefferson Middle School is among 2 schools run by Rockaway Borough School District, which serves 571 students.
No group is above 50% at Thomas Jefferson Middle School; the largest is White, at 48%. The rest of enrollment is 37% Hispanic, 7% Asian, 4% Black, and 3% multiracial. Among all residents of Morris County, the White share is about 68%. The diversity index for Thomas Jefferson Middle School is 62%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
For every teacher at Thomas Jefferson Middle School, there are about 9.5 students; the school has 31.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for middle schools in New Jersey is 10.9:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. There are 97 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 32% of enrollment. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Morris County is 19%.
On the allk12 Grade, Thomas Jefferson Middle School lands at B, ahead of 59% of New Jersey public middle schools.
The model predicts 48.4% for a school in New Jersey with Thomas Jefferson Middle School's free or reduced-price lunch share. Thomas Jefferson Middle School posts 48.7%.
The school is in Morris County, where the median household earns about $137,326 a year, about 58% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 3% of residents are in poverty. Across Morris County, 156 public schools serve about 72,239 students.
Lincoln Elementary School is the nearest public school to Thomas Jefferson Middle School, less than a tenth of a mile away. Within five miles of Thomas Jefferson Middle School, there are at least 8 other public schools. On proficiency, Thomas Jefferson Middle School is behind the 55.7% nearby average, ranking 6th of 7.
The NCES locale for Thomas Jefferson Middle School 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 school's enrollment rose 6% from 2020-21 to 2024-25. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (9.5:1) than in 2020-21 (10.9:1).
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Morris County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
514,528
Census ACS
Median income
$137,326
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
58%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
3%
Below federal line
Schools in county
156
72,239 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Rockaway Borough School District
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolElementary · 272 students
Other schools in ROCKAWAY
- Morris Knolls High SchoolHigh · 1,450 students
- Morris Hills High SchoolHigh · 1,140 students
- Copeland Middle SchoolMiddle · 799 students
- Stony Brook Elementary SchoolElementary · 365 students
- Katharine D Malone Elementary SchoolElementary · 303 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolElementary · 272 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 18th largest of the 18.
- Thomas Jefferson Middle SchoolFAIR LAWN, NJ · 1,100 students
- Thomas Jefferson Middle SchoolEDISON, NJ · 954 students
- Thomas Jefferson Middle SchoolLODI, NJ · 686 students
- Thomas Jefferson Middle SchoolTEANECK, NJ · 510 students
- Thomas Jefferson MiddleMadera, CA · 948 students
Nearby schools
- Lincoln Elementary School0.1 mi · 272
- Morris Knolls High School0.8 mi · 1,450
- Academy for Performing Arts0.8 mi · 144
- Morris Hills High School1.1 mi · 1,140
- Academy for Mathematics Science and Engineering1.1 mi · 181
- Stony Brook Elementary School1.4 mi · 365
Frequently asked questions
About Thomas Jefferson Middle SchoolHow many students attend Thomas Jefferson Middle School?
Thomas Jefferson Middle School enrolls approximately 299 students in grades 04-08.
What grades does Thomas Jefferson Middle School serve?
Thomas Jefferson Middle School serves grades 04-08.
How many teachers does Thomas Jefferson Middle School have?
Thomas Jefferson Middle School employs 32 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.5:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Thomas Jefferson Middle School?
At Thomas Jefferson Middle School, the student body is approximately 48% White, 37% Hispanic, 4% Black, 7% 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 Rockaway Borough School District.
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