Summary:
The Cliffside Park School District in New Jersey has one middle school, School #6/Middle School, which serves students in grades 6-8. The school has consistently ranked in the top 50% of New Jersey middle schools over the past three years, with a ranking of 320 out of 752 in 2024-2025.
School #6/Middle School's performance on standardized tests is mixed. In English Language Arts, the school's proficiency rates are generally higher than the state average but lower than the district average. In Mathematics, the school's proficiency rates are lower than both the district and state averages. However, the school's proficiency rates in Algebra I, both for the end-of-course exam and for 8th-grade students, are significantly higher than the district and state averages. The school's science proficiency rates for both 5th and 8th grades are lower than the district and state averages.
The school has a relatively high percentage of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch, at 58.89% in the 2023-2024 school year. The school's student-teacher ratio is 12.6, which is slightly lower than the typical recommended ratio of 15:1 for middle schools. The school's per-student spending for the 2018-2019 school year was $11,829, which is higher than the national average for middle schools.
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