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Enrollment
803
Middle
DISTRICT 571 · STATE 578
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HOPEWELL VALLEY REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340753003146
Timberlane Middle School
51 S TIMBERLANE DRIVE, PENNINGTON, NJ 08534 · (609) 737-4004 · Mercer County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE41-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL803 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 56% of New Jersey public middle schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
9.7:1
83 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.3:1 · STATE 10.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
7%
53 students
DISTRICT 6% · 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 | 268 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 270 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 265 | 33% |
Student demographics
50%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 50% · 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
Timberlane Middle School→Hopewell Valley Central High School
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Hopewell Valley Regional School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
75.0%
NJ avg 53.1% . +7.5pp since 2023
Math
57.9%
NJ avg 41.6% . +4.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 75 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 75.0% | 57.9% |
| 2023-24 | 67.5% | 53.4% |
% 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
57.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
62.5%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 63% 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 Timberlane Middle School
Timberlane Middle School's state test result (57.0% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Timberlane Middle School this school | 803 | 6.6% | 57.0% |
| Moorestown Upper Elementary School MOORESTOWN | 869 | 8.9% | 65.5% |
| Thomas Edison Intermediate School Westfield | 800 | 2.6% | 64.3% |
| Chatham Middle School CHATHAM | 833 | 2.8% | 59.1% |
| Marlboro Middle School MARLBORO | 935 | 8.2% | 58.0% |
| Terrill Middle School SCOTCH PLAINS | 822 | 1.9% | 59.4% |
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 Timberlane Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Mercer County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 57.0% | #121 of 433 | #4 of 20 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 57.9% | #123 of 437 ▲ 6 | #4 of 20 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 75.0% | #96 of 437 ▲ 36 | #3 of 20 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 803 | #88 of 445 | #7 of 21 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.7:1 | #100 of 417 | #2 of 20 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.4% | #255 of 419 | #11 of 20 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 6.6% | #380 of 436 | #21 of 21 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.5% | #220 of 282 | #6 of 8 |
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
803
-17 (-2%) vs 2020
+114% since 1990-91, when it was 375
Student : Teacher
9.7:1
was 9.3:1
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 | 803 | 82.6 | 9.7:1 | 7% (53) |
| 2023-24 | 773 | 83.1 | 9.3:1 | 4% (32) |
| 2022-23 | 780 | 85.5 | 9.1:1 | 3% (26) |
| 2020-21 | 820 | 88 | 9.3:1 | 4% (29) |
| 2017-18 | 841 | 88.9 | 9.5:1 | 4% (35) |
| 2015-16 | 837 | 85 | 9.8:1 | 5% (40) |
| 2010-11 | 970 | 72 | 13.5:1 | 3% (29) |
| 2000-01 | 857 | 66 | 13.0:1 | 2% (13) |
| 1990-91 | 375 | 27 | 13.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Timberlane Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 5% (841 to 803); teachers down 7% (88.9 to 82.6).
About Timberlane Middle School
Timberlane Middle School is a public middle-grades school run by Hopewell Valley Regional School District in PENNINGTON, New Jersey. It offers grades 6 through 8 and has 803 students enrolled. It has 39% more students than the average for middle schools in New Jersey (about 578).
The 6 schools of Hopewell Valley Regional School District, including Timberlane Middle School, enroll 3,423 students.
At Timberlane Middle School, 68% of students are White. The school is also 17% Asian, 7% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, and 4% Black. That is higher than the 46% White share among all Mercer County residents. A diversity index of 50% means there is a 50% chance two randomly chosen students at Timberlane Middle School are from different groups.
Timberlane Middle School has a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.7:1, with 82.6 full-time-equivalent teachers. Compared with the 10.9:1 average for middle schools in New Jersey, this school's ratio is lower. The school has 7% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Mercer County is 48%.
Timberlane Middle School earns a B on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 56% of New Jersey public middle schools.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Timberlane Middle School is 5.6 points below the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 57.0% actual, 62.5% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in New Jersey.
In the wider Mercer County area, median household income comes to about $100,645, roughly 45% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Mercer County's 110 public schools enroll about 58,647 students and include Timberlane Middle School.
Hopewell Valley Central High School sits about 0.2 miles from Timberlane Middle School. Timberlane Middle School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. The nearest schools with test data average 58.4%, higher than Timberlane Middle School's 57.0%.
Timberlane Middle School has an NCES locale of Rural: Fringe.
In 2020-21, Timberlane Middle School enrolled 820; in 2024-25, 803.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback here. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Mercer County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
385,864
Census ACS
Median income
$100,645
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
45%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
110
58,647 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Hopewell Valley Regional School District
- Hopewell Valley Central High SchoolHigh · 1,068 students
- Bear Tavern Elementary SchoolElementary · 461 students
- Hopewell Elementary SchoolElementary · 397 students
- Stony Brook Elementary SchoolElementary · 395 students
- Toll Gate Grammar SchoolElementary · 299 students
Other schools in PENNINGTON
- Hopewell Valley Central High SchoolHigh · 1,068 students
- Stony Brook Elementary SchoolElementary · 395 students
- Toll Gate Grammar SchoolElementary · 299 students
- Mercer County Technical School STEM AcademyHigh · 141 students
- Mercer County Technical School Culinary Arts AcademyHigh · 111 students
- MCVS Arthur R. Sypek CenterHigh · 21 students
Nearby schools
- Hopewell Valley Central High School0.2 mi · 1,068
- Toll Gate Grammar School1.1 mi · 299
- Bear Tavern Elementary School2.6 mi · 461
- Stony Brook Elementary School3.0 mi · 395
- Mercer County Technical School STEM Academy3.5 mi · 141
- MCVS Arthur R. Sypek Center3.5 mi · 21
Frequently asked questions
About Timberlane Middle SchoolHow large is Timberlane Middle School?
Timberlane Middle School enrolls approximately 803 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Timberlane Middle School serve?
Timberlane Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many teachers does Timberlane Middle School have?
Timberlane Middle School employs 83 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.7:1.
What is the student diversity at Timberlane Middle School?
Student demographics at Timberlane Middle School are roughly 68% White, 7% Hispanic, 4% Black, 17% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Timberlane Middle School public or private?
Timberlane Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Hopewell Valley Regional School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.