Union Avenue Middle School

Union Avenue Middle School is a middle school of moderately sized scale in IRVINGTON, New Jersey, operated by Irvington Public School District, teacheing 735 students in grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 578 students per school, that is 27% above typical.

Within Irvington Public School District, which oversees 12 schools and 7,659 students, Union Avenue Middle School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Union Avenue Middle School records that Black students make up the majority at 67%. Beyond that, the school reports 32% Hispanic. By comparison, Essex County as a whole is about 36% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.9:1, putting Union Avenue Middle School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 80% of students at Union Avenue Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Essex County's rate of about 54%.

With demographic context factored in, Union Avenue Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 22.4%; this one delivers 23.1%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Essex County) logs that median household income runs about $80,789, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Essex County runs 249 public schools (combined enrollment of about 145,473 students), of which Union Avenue Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Chancellor Avenue Elementary School, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Union Avenue Middle School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 27.0%.

Union Avenue Middle School operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. Union Avenue Middle School's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 718 (now 735). The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 21% to 32% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 12.6:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 today.

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