Summary:
Zip code 07039 includes two middle schools in Livingston: Mount Pleasant Middle School, serving grade 6, and Heritage Middle School, serving grades 7–8. Together, they serve students across grades 6–8, with enrollments of 530 and 994, respectively. The most important finding is that both schools’ 2025–26 results were well above state results in every reported ELA, math and science comparison: margins ranged from 24 to 37 points.
Heritage Middle School stands out in Algebra I, while Mount Pleasant Middle School had the largest listed ELA and math margin over the state. Mount Pleasant was 28 points above the state in grade 6 ELA and 37 points above in math. Heritage’s grade 7 and 8 ELA margins were 24 and 29 points; its math margins were 33 points in both grades, and grade 8 science was 30 points above the state. Heritage Algebra I proficiency was 99% for End of Course, 100% in grade 7 and 99% in grade 8—about 60, 7 and 25 points above state results, respectively. There is no like-grade comparison to identify one school as the overall winner, because their tested grades do not overlap.
Results stayed strong, though the average margin over the state across the seven recurring comparisons narrowed slightly, from about 31 points in 2024–25 to 30 points in 2025–26. Individual results varied: Heritage grade 7 ELA and math scores fell by 8 and 7 points, while grade 8 math rose by 7 points. SchoolDigger rated Heritage five stars and ranked it 36th of 743 schools, at the 95th percentile, in 2025–26; it ranked 27th of 752 the previous year. In 2024–25, Heritage’s student-teacher ratio was 12.0, compared with 11.5 at Mount Pleasant. Both schools reported free/reduced lunch eligible for 2024–25: 2% at Heritage and 4% at Mount Pleasant.
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