What makes a middle school top notch? US News & World Report recently released its public school rankings for elementary, middle and high schools across the country and a middle school in Paterson was named New Jersey’s best middle school.
In the new ranking, “schools were assessed on their shares of students who were proficient or above proficient in their mathematics and reading/language arts state assessments. Half of the formula assessed the scores themselves and the other half incorporated the test results in the context of socioeconomic demographics. In other words, the top-ranked schools are all high-achieving and have succeeded at educating all their students,” according to the US News & World Report methodology.
In total, 23,861 middle schools were ranked across the country and you can read more about how the rankings factored in standardized tests measuring student proficiency in subjects related to mathematics and reading/language arts while taking into account the socioeconomics of each school’s area. Student-to-teacher ratio was also taken into account. You can read more about the methodology here.
Here are the top 50 middle schools in NJ, according to US News & World Report:
- School 28, Paterson
- Infinity Institute, Jersey City
- Upper School, Englewood Cliffs
- Thomas Edison Energysmart Charter School, Somerset
- Mendham Township Middle School, Mendham Twp.
- Princeton Charter School, Princeton
- Forrestdale School, Rumson
- Markham Place School, Little Silver
- Ho-Ho-Kus Public School, Ho-Ho-Kus
- Hatikvah International Academy Charter School, East Brunswick
- Brookside School, Allendale
- Sara M. Gilmore Academy, Union City
- Mountain View School, Mendham
- Deerfield Elementary School, Mountainside
- Knollwood School, Fair Haven
- Millburn Middle School, Millburn
- Harding Township School, Harding Twp.
- Tenafly Middle School, Tenafly
- John Adams Middle School, Edison
- Academy I, Jersey City
- Woodcliff Middle School, Woodcliff Lake
- Woodrow Wilson Middle School, Edison
- Old Turnpike School, Califon
- Nicholas Oresko Community School, Bayonne
- Cranbury School, Cranbury
- Emil A. Cavallini Middle School, Upper Saddle River
- Community Middle School, Plainsboro
- Briarcliff Middle School, Mountain Lakes
- William Annin Middle School, Bernards Twp.
- Demarest Middle School, Demarest
- New Providence Middle School, New Providence
- Heritage Middle School, Livingston
- Tenakill Middle School, Closter
- Thomas R. Grover Middle School, West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District
- Hoboken Dual Language Charter School, Hoboken
- Brielle Elementary School (PreK-8), Brielle
- Mount Pleasant Middle School, Livingston
- Columbia Middle School, Berkeley Heights
- Pearl R Miller Middle School, Kinnelon
- Glen Rock Middle School, Glen Rock
- Montgomery Upper Middle School, Skillman
- Charles Dewolf Middle School, Old Tappan
- Lawton C. Johnson Summit Middle School, Summit
- Manalapan-Englishtown Middle School, Manalapan
- River Dell Middle School, River Edge
- Orange Avenue School (3-8), Cranford
- Haworth Public School (K-8), Haworth
- Ridgedale Middle School, Florham Park
- Glen Ridge High School (7-12), Glen Ridge
- Harold Antrim Elementary School, Margate City
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