Summary:
The New Brunswick School District has two middle schools serving grades 6–8: New Brunswick Middle School (829 students) and Pathways Middle School (262 students). Across the schools, average ELA proficiency was 20%, compared with 53% statewide, and math proficiency averaged 6%, compared with 34% statewide. Grade 8 science averaged 2% at the schools versus 19% statewide. The most important finding is that both schools’ grade-level math and science results were far below their matching state results, alongside similarly low ELA performance.
New Brunswick Middle leads in more regular grade-level comparisons: it has higher ELA results in grades 6 and 7, higher math results in grades 6 and 8, and higher grade 8 science. Pathways stands out in grade 7 math, where it leads by 7 points, and Algebra I, where its 75% proficiency is 11 points above New Brunswick’s. SchoolDigger ranks both near the bottom statewide: New Brunswick is 703rd of 743 schools and Pathways is 707th; both are at the 5th percentile with zero stars.
Recent common-grade results show weaker area-wide ELA and math performance, with an exception in New Brunswick’s grade 8 Algebra I. From 2024–25 to 2025–26, the schools’ average ELA result for grades 6 and 7 fell from 24% to 19%, while the state average fell from 57% to 53%; the math average fell from 10% to 8% as the state result stayed nearly unchanged. New Brunswick’s grade 8 Algebra I proficiency, by contrast, rose from 49% to 64%. As context, both schools reported free/reduced lunch eligible figures for 2024–25—95% at New Brunswick and 94% at Pathways. New Brunswick’s student-teacher ratio was 8.3; no ratio was provided for Pathways. Pathways has no supplied prior-year grade 6 or 7 results, so trends for those grades cannot be compared.
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