Middle Township Public School District

The four schools in Middle Township Public School District serve 2,575 students across PK–12: Elementary #1 serves PK–2, Elementary #2 serves grades 3–5, Elementary #4 serves grades 6–8, and Middle Township High School serves grades 9–12. Across the available grade-matched results in 2025–2026, average proficiency was below state results in ELA (37% versus 51%), math (28% versus 40%), and science (16% versus 23%). The most striking finding is Algebra I: Elementary #4 reported 100% proficient on its End of Course assessment, compared with 16% at the high school and 40% statewide.

Elementary #4 stands out in Algebra I, but not across every subject: its 8th-grade Algebra I result was 100% versus 75% statewide, while its ELA results were below state levels in all three grades. The high school had the smallest ELA shortfall among the schools with grade-level averages: its 9th-grade result was 44% versus 51% statewide, an 8-point gap; Elementary #2’s grades 3–5 average was 36% versus 49%, and Elementary #4’s grades 6–8 average was 37% versus 53%. SchoolDigger ranks the high school 273rd of 434 (37th percentile, 2 stars), Elementary #4 482nd of 743 (35th percentile, 2 stars), and Elementary #2 995th of 1,331 (25th percentile, 1 star). Elementary #1 has no supplied test results, so its achievement cannot be compared here.

Results changed unevenly over the two years. The average ELA gap narrowed from 17 points to 14, and the science gap from 13 to 7; math remained about 13 points below the state. Within Elementary #2, 5th-grade ELA and math rose by 16 and 13 points, while its 3rd-grade results declined in both subjects. At Elementary #4, 8th-grade math rose 8 points, but 6th-grade math fell 11. As context, 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch eligible shares were 58% at Elementary #2 and 54% at Elementary #4; their student-teacher ratios were 10.6 and 12.6, respectively. These are observations about the schools, not explanations for their results.