Albert E Grice Middle School

Albert E. Grice Middle School in Hamilton, New Jersey, serves 991 students in grades 6–8 in the Hamilton Township Public School District. Its most important academic finding is the sharp contrast between very strong Algebra I proficiency—93% in 2025–26—and much weaker results in other subjects, particularly 8th-grade science, at 4%.

Algebra I is a standout compared with the district and state: Grice’s 93% end-of-course proficiency rate was well above the district’s 19% and the state’s 40%, although Emily C. Reynolds Middle School and Richard C Crockett Middle School were higher, at 95% and 100%. Elsewhere, Grice generally trails. Its average ELA proficiency across grades 6–8 was 38%, versus 40% districtwide and 53% statewide; its math average was 18%, versus 26% and 34%. The 4% 8th-grade science rate was below the state’s 19% and the district’s 7%, as well as Reynolds’ 7% and Crockett’s 10%. Nearby Pond Road Middle School provides a much stronger local comparison: its grade 6 ELA and math results were 73% and 79%, compared with Grice’s 34% and 22%.

Results show little broad improvement over time: ELA’s three-grade average edged down from 39% in 2022–23 to 38% in 2025–26, while math rose from 16% to 18%; science fell from 9% to 4%. Algebra I end-of-course proficiency rose from 67% to 93% over that period, after peaking at 98% in 2024–25. SchoolDigger ranks Grice 553rd of 743 New Jersey schools, in the 26th percentile, with 1 star. Its 2024–25 student-teacher ratio was 12.7, and 64% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year—7 percentage points above the 57% average at Reynolds and Crockett. SchoolDigger’s statewide African American student subgroup ranking was at the 62nd percentile in 2025–26, compared with Grice’s overall 26th percentile; its English Language Learner subgroup ranking fell from the 42nd percentile in 2024–25 to the 15th in 2025–26.