Garfield Middle School

Garfield Middle School operates as a large middle school in GARFIELD, New Jersey, overseen by Garfield Public School District. Current enrollment sits at 971 students spanning grades 6 through 8. That puts it 68% above the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 578 students.

Within Garfield Public School District, which oversees 11 schools and 4,762 students, Garfield Middle School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Garfield Middle School records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 56% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 33% White, 9% Black. The wider county runs roughly 23% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 87 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 10.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 67% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Bergen County's rate of about 28%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Garfield Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.7%, the actual is 33.9%, a residual of +4.2 points.

In the surrounding community, Bergen County reports that median household income runs about $124,884, roughly 53% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Bergen County's 291 public schools (combined enrollment of about 133,883 students), Garfield Middle School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Garfield Early Childhood Learning Center, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Garfield Middle School comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 40.7%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 989 students in 2018 compared to 971 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 51% to 56%.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Garfield Middle School community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.