Summary:
The Phillipsburg School District has only one middle school, Phillipsburg Middle School, which serves grades 6-8. The school is ranked 619 out of 752 New Jersey middle schools and has a 1-star rating from SchoolDigger, indicating it is a low-performing school.
Phillipsburg Middle School struggles academically, with proficiency rates well below state averages in English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science. Only 3.9% of 8th-grade students are proficient in Science, compared to the state average of 19%. The school has a high percentage of students (63.03%) receiving free or reduced-price lunch, suggesting a high-need student population. Despite the low academic performance, the school has a relatively low student-teacher ratio of 10.4 and above-average per-student spending of $14,763.
The data highlights the challenges faced by Phillipsburg Middle School in providing quality education and supporting student achievement. The school's consistent 1-star rating and declining statewide ranking suggest that it is struggling to improve student outcomes. The high-need student population and low academic proficiency rates across multiple subjects and grade levels indicate that the school has significant work to do in order to better serve its students and the Phillipsburg community.
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