Best Middle Schools in Zip Code 07081

ZIP code 07081 has one listed middle school, Florence M. Gaudineer Middle School, serving grades 5–7, with 474 students in the Springfield Public School District. In 2025–2026, Gaudineer was above New Jersey in five of its six grade-level ELA and math results; its unweighted averages across grades 5–7 were 6 points above the state in ELA and 5 points above in math.

There is no second school in the ZIP code to compare, so the clearest standouts are among Gaudineer’s grade-level results. In 2025–2026, seventh-grade ELA was its highest ELA result at 68%, while fifth-grade ELA was lowest at 50%; in math, sixth grade led at 53% and seventh grade was lowest at 40%. The biggest standout was Algebra I End-of-Course: Gaudineer reached 100%, compared with 40% statewide, a 60-point advantage. The separate seventh-grade Algebra I result was also 100%, 7 points above the state. The clearest low result was eighth-grade math in 2024–2025: 9% at Gaudineer versus 21% statewide, a 12-point deficit. Because the current listed grade span is 5–7 despite the prior-year eighth-grade result, and the ZIP code has only one school, these are within-school comparisons rather than comparisons among local schools.

Gaudineer remains ahead of the state on matched grades, but its advantage narrowed between years: for grades 6–7, the average ELA lead fell from 14 points to 10, while the math lead shrank from 14 points to 7. Meanwhile, SchoolDigger’s rank improved from 245 of 743 schools in 2023–2024 to 205 of 743 in 2025–2026, and its percentile rose from 67 to 72; the ranking trend does not mean every subject improved. Attendance was also favorable in 2024–2025: chronic absenteeism was 8%, compared with 13% in the district and 14% statewide. For context, the school’s student-teacher ratio was 12.1 in 2024–2025, and 18% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year.