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What's one thing Westwood Regional Middle School gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
656
Middle
DISTRICT 461 · STATE 578
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WESTWOOD REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341782000912
Westwood Regional Middle School
23 THIRD AVENUE, WESTWOOD, NJ 07675 · (201) 664-5560 · Bergen County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL656 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 58% 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.
- C+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
10.3:1
64 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.3:1 · STATE 10.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
14%
94 students
DISTRICT 12% · 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 | 193 | 29% |
| Grade 7 | 230 | 35% |
| Grade 8 | 233 | 36% |
Student demographics
47%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 49% · 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
Westwood Regional Middle School→Westwood Regional High School
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Westwood Regional School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
73.1%
NJ avg 53.1% . +9.5pp since 2023
Math
54.9%
NJ avg 41.6% . +6.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 73 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 55 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 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 73.1% | 54.9% |
| 2023-24 | 63.6% | 48.5% |
% 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
54.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.3%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 58% 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 Westwood Regional Middle School
Westwood Regional Middle School's state test result (54.9% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Westwood Regional Middle School this school | 656 | 14.3% | 54.9% |
| Clifton T. Barkalow School FREEHOLD | 574 | 15.0% | 54.2% |
| Jefferson Township Middle School OAK RIDGE | 550 | 15.8% | 42.7% |
| Grover Cleveland Middle School CALDWELL | 610 | 12.6% | 57.7% |
| Schuyler Colfax Middle School WAYNE | 650 | 10.2% | 64.8% |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower School FREEHOLD | 582 | 15.5% | 55.5% |
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 Westwood Regional Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Bergen County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 54.9% | #137 of 433 | #33 of 52 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 54.9% | #145 of 437 ▲ 19 | #34 of 53 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 73.1% | #116 of 437 ▲ 53 | #30 of 53 ▲ 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 656 | #148 of 445 | #10 of 53 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.3:1 | #148 of 417 | #23 of 52 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 47.1% | #282 of 419 | #42 of 52 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 14.3% | #324 of 436 | #28 of 52 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +56.6% | #2 of 122 | #2 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
656
+16 (+3%) vs 2020
+119% since 1990-91, when it was 299
Student : Teacher
10.3:1
was 10.3:1
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 | 656 | 63.8 | 10.3:1 | 14% (94) |
| 2023-24 | 683 | 60.8 | 11.2:1 | 12% (79) |
| 2022-23 | 655 | 55.6 | 11.8:1 | 10% (68) |
| 2020-21 | 640 | 62 | 10.3:1 | 10% (66) |
| 2017-18 | 419 | 42.2 | 9.9:1 | 10% (41) |
| 2015-16 | 429 | 42 | 10.2:1 | 10% (45) |
| 2010-11 | 411 | 29 | 14.2:1 | 1% (4) |
| 2000-01 | 364 | 29 | 12.6:1 | 4% (15) |
| 1990-91 | 299 | 17 | 17.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Westwood Regional Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 57% (419 to 656); teachers up 51% (42.2 to 63.8).
About Westwood Regional Middle School
Westwood Regional Middle School is a middle school located in WESTWOOD, New Jersey, in Bergen County. Enrollment in 2024-25 was 656 students in grades 6 through 8.
Westwood Regional School District has 6 schools and 2,764 students, and Westwood Regional Middle School is one of those schools.
Westwood Regional Middle School's enrollment is 70% White. Other groups include 17% Hispanic, 7% Asian, 3% multiracial, and 2% Black. By comparison, Bergen County residents are about 55% White. By the diversity index, Westwood Regional Middle School comes in at 47%.
The teaching staff at Westwood Regional Middle School is 63.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 10.3:1. Middle schools in New Jersey average about 10.9:1, a similar figure. About 14% of students, or 94, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The gap from the 28% average for public schools in Bergen County is 14 points.
Measured against New Jersey public middle schools, Westwood Regional 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.
The model predicts 58.3% for a school in New Jersey with Westwood Regional Middle School's free or reduced-price lunch share. Westwood Regional Middle School posts 54.9%.
Westwood Regional Middle School is located in Bergen County, where median household income is about $124,884, roughly 53% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Federal data list 291 public schools in Bergen County, with a combined enrollment of about 133,883.
Brookside Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, less than a tenth of a mile away. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Westwood Regional Middle School's average proficiency of 54.9% compares with 60.9% for its nearest scored neighbors.
Westwood Regional Middle School is coded as Suburb: Large in federal locale data.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, Westwood Regional Middle School went from 640 students to 656.
The allk12 site hosts a discussion page for Westwood Regional Middle School covering things like enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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 Westwood Regional School District
- Westwood Regional High SchoolHigh · 830 students
- Brookside Elementary SchoolElementary · 390 students
- Washington Elementary SchoolElementary · 329 students
- Jessie F. George ElementaryElementary · 282 students
- Berkeley ElementaryElementary · 277 students
Other schools in WESTWOOD
- Brookside Elementary SchoolElementary · 390 students
- Berkeley ElementaryElementary · 277 students
Nearby schools
- Brookside Elementary School0.0 mi · 390
- Memorial School0.4 mi · 374
- Berkeley Elementary0.8 mi · 277
- Jessie F. George Elementary0.9 mi · 282
- Patrick M Villano School1.1 mi · 240
- George G White1.3 mi · 490
Frequently asked questions
About Westwood Regional Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Westwood Regional Middle School?
Westwood Regional Middle School enrolls approximately 656 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Westwood Regional Middle School serve?
Westwood Regional Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Westwood Regional Middle School?
Approximately 10.3:1 students per teacher at Westwood Regional Middle School.
How diverse is Westwood Regional Middle School?
Westwood Regional Middle School reports a student body of 70% White, 17% Hispanic, 2% Black, 7% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees Westwood Regional Middle School?
Westwood Regional Middle School is overseen by Westwood Regional School District in Bergen County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.