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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Veterans Middle School administration to hear?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Enrollment
426
Middle
DISTRICT 331 · STATE 578
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NORTH ARLINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341143000644
Veterans Middle School
191 Rutherford Place, North Arlington, NJ 07031 · (201) 991-6800 · Bergen County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL426 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 64% 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.
- A-Beats 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
10.2:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.1:1 · STATE 10.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
44%
186 students
DISTRICT 38% · 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 | 144 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 128 | 30% |
| Grade 8 | 154 | 36% |
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 57% · 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
Veterans Middle School→North Arlington High School
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within North Arlington School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
62.7%
NJ avg 53.1% . +3.8pp since 2023
Math
46.8%
NJ avg 41.6% . +13.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 63 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 47 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 13 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 62.7% | 46.8% |
| 2023-24 | 58.9% | 33.8% |
% 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
46.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.3%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% 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 Veterans Middle School
Veterans Middle School's state test result (46.1% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Veterans Middle School this school | 426 | 43.7% | 46.1% |
| Memorial Middle School Woodland Park | 374 | 47.9% | 40.2% |
| Lincoln Middle School HAWTHORNE | 522 | 39.7% | 44.0% |
| Hackettstown Middle School HACKETTSTOWN | 507 | 46.0% | 41.8% |
| Hopatcong Middle School Hopatcong | 435 | 40.0% | 30.8% |
| Von E. Mauger Middle School MIDDLESEX | 502 | 43.8% | 37.6% |
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 Veterans Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Bergen County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 46.1% | #208 of 433 | #41 of 52 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 46.8% | #192 of 437 ▲ 65 | #37 of 53 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 62.7% | #203 of 437 ▲ 5 | #42 of 53 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 426 | #299 of 445 | #36 of 53 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.2:1 | #140 of 417 | #22 of 52 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.3% | #201 of 419 | #32 of 52 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 43.7% | #170 of 436 | #15 of 52 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +7.6% | #66 of 122 | #11 of 14 |
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
426
-38 (-8%) vs 2020
+89% since 1990-91, when it was 225
Student : Teacher
10.2:1
was 12.2:1
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 | 426 | 41.7 | 10.2:1 | 44% (186) |
| 2023-24 | 458 | 38.7 | 11.8:1 | 36% (167) |
| 2022-23 | 483 | 39.7 | 12.2:1 | 29% (138) |
| 2020-21 | 464 | 38 | 12.2:1 | 26% (120) |
| 2017-18 | 396 | 31.8 | 12.4:1 | 19% (76) |
| 2015-16 | 399 | 32 | 12.5:1 | 25% (100) |
| 2010-11 | 357 | 24 | 14.9:1 | 17% (60) |
| 2000-01 | 363 | 20 | 18.1:1 | 15% (53) |
| 1990-91 | 225 | 11 | 20.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Veterans Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 8% (396 to 426); teachers up 31% (31.8 to 41.7).
About Veterans Middle School
Veterans Middle School is one of the public schools in North Arlington, New Jersey. It is a small middle-grades school. The school enrolls 426 students in grades 6 through 8. On average, middle schools in New Jersey enroll around 578, and this school is 26% below that mark.
Veterans Middle School is one school in North Arlington School District, a system of 6 schools with 1,988 students.
The student body at Veterans Middle School is 50% Hispanic. It is also 42% White, 3% Asian, and 2% multiracial. Bergen County's residents are about 23% Hispanic, 28 points below the school's share. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 56, compared with 70 nationally.
The school has 41.7 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 10.2 students per teacher. The 10.9:1 average for middle schools in New Jersey is close to this figure. Of all students at Veterans Middle School, 44% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Bergen County average 28%.
On the allk12 Grade, Veterans Middle School lands at B, ahead of 64% of New Jersey public middle schools.
Veterans Middle School is 3.8 points above its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (46.1% versus 42.3%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in New Jersey.
In the wider Bergen County area, median household income comes to about $124,884, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of people live in poverty. Bergen County's 291 public schools enroll about 133,883 students and include Veterans Middle School.
Less than a tenth of a mile separates Veterans Middle School from the closest public school, Susan B. Anthony Elementary School. The five-mile area around Veterans Middle School holds at least 8 other public schools. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Veterans Middle School at 3rd of 8.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Large, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment was 426 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 464. Its ratio of students to teachers was 12.2:1 in 2020-21, and 10.2:1 in 2024-25.
This page collects posts and questions about Veterans Middle School, such as fundraisers, report cards, and school supplies. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
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 North Arlington School District
- North Arlington High SchoolHigh · 634 students
- George Washington Elementary SchoolElementary · 335 students
- Susan B. Anthony Elementary SchoolElementary · 297 students
- Thomas Jefferson Elementary SchoolElementary · 164 students
- Franklin D Roosevelt Elementary SchoolElementary · 132 students
Other schools in North Arlington
- North Arlington High SchoolHigh · 634 students
- George Washington Elementary SchoolElementary · 335 students
- Susan B. Anthony Elementary SchoolElementary · 297 students
- Thomas Jefferson Elementary SchoolElementary · 164 students
- Franklin D Roosevelt Elementary SchoolElementary · 132 students
Other Veterans Middle schools
2 other US public schools in 2 states are named Veterans Middle. Veterans Middle School is the 3rd largest of the 3.
- Veterans Middle SchoolDONNA, TX · 866 students
- Veterans Middle SchoolRIO GRANDE CITY, TX · 734 students
Nearby schools
- Susan B. Anthony Elementary School0.0 mi · 297
- Thomas Jefferson Elementary School0.5 mi · 164
- Schuyler Elementary School0.5 mi · 437
- Roosevelt Elementary School0.5 mi · 428
- North Arlington High School0.6 mi · 634
- Hornblower Early Childhood Center0.9 mi · 245
Frequently asked questions
About Veterans Middle SchoolHow large is Veterans Middle School?
Veterans Middle School enrolls approximately 426 students in grades 06-08.
Is Veterans Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Veterans Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Veterans Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Veterans Middle School is approximately 10.2:1 (42 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Veterans Middle School?
At Veterans Middle School, the student body is approximately 42% White, 50% Hispanic, 1% Black, 3% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees Veterans Middle School?
Veterans Middle School is overseen by North Arlington School District in Bergen County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.