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If you could change one rule at Thomas Jefferson Middle School, what would it be?
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Enrollment
510
Middle
DISTRICT 487 · STATE 578
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·TEANECK SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341608000844
Thomas Jefferson Middle School
655 TEANECK RD, TEANECK, NJ 07666 · (201) 833-5471 · Bergen County
GRADES 05–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL510 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 53% 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.
- 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
47 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.8:1 · STATE 10.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
48%
245 students
DISTRICT 47% · 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 | 113 | 22% |
| Grade 6 | 126 | 25% |
| Grade 7 | 133 | 26% |
| Grade 8 | 138 | 27% |
Student demographics
67%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 68% · 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→Teaneck High School
Based on grade levels within Teaneck School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
54.6%
NJ avg 53.1% . +5.1pp since 2023
Math
37.0%
NJ avg 41.6% . +8.4pp 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 37 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 8 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 54.6% | 37.0% |
| 2023-24 | 49.5% | 28.6% |
% 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
41.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.9%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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 (41.1% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Jefferson Middle School this school | 510 | 48.0% | 41.1% |
| Benjamin Franklin Middle School TEANECK | 463 | 52.3% | 40.0% |
| Edison Middle School W ORANGE | 477 | 42.6% | 55.3% |
| Franklin Middle School at Hamilton Street Campus Somerset | 592 | 57.6% | 24.9% |
| Roosevelt Middle School W ORANGE | 457 | 43.8% | 46.2% |
| Franklin Middle School at Sampson G. Smith Campus Somerset | 787 | 55.8% | 30.8% |
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 | 41.1% | #247 of 433 | #44 of 52 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 37.0% | #252 of 437 ▲ 53 | #44 of 53 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 54.6% | #263 of 437 ▲ 7 | #47 of 53 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 510 | #243 of 445 | #28 of 53 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.8:1 | #203 of 417 | #26 of 52 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.0% | #81 of 419 | #8 of 52 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 48.0% | #146 of 436 | #13 of 52 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.8% | #189 of 282 | #25 of 35 |
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
510
0 (0%) vs 2020
+3% since 1990-91, when it was 497
Student : Teacher
10.8:1
was 9.1:1
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 | 510 | 47.5 | 10.8:1 | 48% (245) |
| 2023-24 | 525 | 58.3 | 9.0:1 | 46% (241) |
| 2022-23 | 529 | 56.3 | 9.4:1 | 41% (218) |
| 2020-21 | 510 | 56 | 9.1:1 | 36% (182) |
| 2017-18 | 547 | 64 | 8.6:1 | 42% (230) |
| 2015-16 | 541 | 59 | 9.2:1 | 7% (37) |
| 2010-11 | 613 | 43 | 14.3:1 | 32% (199) |
| 2000-01 | 812 | 63 | 12.9:1 | 17% (136) |
| 1990-91 | 497 | 42 | 11.8:1 | 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 7% (547 to 510); teachers down 26% (64 to 47.5).
About Thomas Jefferson Middle School
In TEANECK, New Jersey, Thomas Jefferson Middle School is a medium-sized middle-grades school. It covers grades 5 through 8, with a total enrollment of 510 students.
Thomas Jefferson Middle School sits within Teaneck School District, which has 8 schools and 3,630 students.
Hispanic students form the largest group at Thomas Jefferson Middle School, 48% of enrollment. Other groups include 28% Black, 11% Asian, 9% White, and 3% multiracial. By comparison, Bergen County residents are about 23% Hispanic. By the diversity index, Thomas Jefferson Middle School comes in at 67%.
The school reports 47.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 10.8 students per teacher. Middle schools in New Jersey average about 10.9:1, a similar figure. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility covers 48% of students. Across public schools in Bergen County, the average is 28%.
Measured against New Jersey public middle schools, Thomas Jefferson Middle School receives a B-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, Thomas Jefferson Middle School is 1.2 points above its prediction. Actual: 41.1%. Predicted: 39.9%.
County data help place the school in context: in Bergen County, median household income is about $124,884, roughly 53% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. The public schools of Bergen County number 291 and enroll about 133,883.
Nathaniel Hawthorne Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles away. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Thomas Jefferson Middle School at 5th of 8.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment was essentially flat over 4 years: 510 in 2020-21, 510 in 2024-25. The ratio was 9.1:1 in 2020-21 and 10.8:1 in 2024-25.
Threads on this page can be about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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 Teaneck School District
- Teaneck High SchoolHigh · 1,244 students
- Benjamin Franklin Middle SchoolMiddle · 463 students
- John Greenleaf Whittier Elementary SchoolElementary · 361 students
- Nathaniel Hawthorne Elementary SchoolElementary · 334 students
- James Russell Lowell Elementary SchoolElementary · 320 students
- William Cullen Bryant SchoolElementary · 283 students
Other schools in TEANECK
- Teaneck High SchoolHigh · 1,244 students
- Benjamin Franklin Middle SchoolMiddle · 463 students
- Teaneck Community Charter schoolElementary · 377 students
- John Greenleaf Whittier Elementary SchoolElementary · 361 students
- Nathaniel Hawthorne Elementary SchoolElementary · 334 students
- James Russell Lowell Elementary SchoolElementary · 320 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 14th 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 SchoolROCKAWAY, NJ · 299 students
- Thomas Jefferson MiddleMadera, CA · 948 students
Nearby schools
- Nathaniel Hawthorne Elementary School0.4 mi · 334
- Theodora Smiley Lacey Elementary School0.5 mi · 115
- Teaneck High School0.8 mi · 1,244
- Bogota Jr./Sr. High School0.8 mi · 475
- Teaneck Community Charter school0.9 mi · 377
- Bogota Middle School1.0 mi · 166
Frequently asked questions
About Thomas Jefferson Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Thomas Jefferson Middle School?
Thomas Jefferson Middle School enrolls approximately 510 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 10.8:1 (47 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Thomas Jefferson Middle School?
Thomas Jefferson Middle School reports a student body of 9% White, 48% Hispanic, 28% Black, 11% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees Thomas Jefferson Middle School?
Thomas Jefferson Middle School is overseen by Teaneck School District in Bergen County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.