Washington Middle School

Set in HARRISON, New Jersey, Washington Middle School is a low-enrollment middle-grades school, operated by Harrison Public Schools. It educates 466 students across grades 6 through 8.

Harrison Public Schools runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 2,192 students. Washington Middle School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Washington Middle School reports that 83% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 10% White, 5% Asian. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.

On the resource side, On paper, Washington Middle School has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.9:1, putting Washington Middle School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 85% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Hudson County's rate of about 68%.

With demographic context factored in, Washington Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 19.6%; this one delivers 33.0%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Hudson County put median household income runs about $91,795, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Hudson County's 130 public schools (combined enrollment of about 86,216 students), Washington Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Kennedy Elementary School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Washington Middle School. On composite proficiency, Washington Middle School comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 28.3%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 456 students in 2018 compared to 466 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 68% to 83% over that span.

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