Summary:
The middle-school picture in ZIP code 07621 is one school, Roy W. Brown Middle School, serving grades 6–8 with 761 students in the Bergenfield Borough School District. In 2025–2026, its grades 6–8 average was 49% in English Language Arts (ELA), compared with 53% statewide, and 31% in mathematics, compared with 34% statewide. The sharpest concern is grade 6: just 18% were proficient in ELA and 19% in math, versus 51% and 40% statewide, respectively.
There are no other schools in this list to rank against it, but grades 7 and 8 were stronger than grade 6 relative to the state. Grade 7 and grade 8 ELA proficiency was 8 and 12 points above state results; math was 3 and 9 points above. The school’s strongest results were in Algebra I and Geometry: end-of-course proficiency reached 95% in Algebra I and 93% in Geometry, compared with 40% and 52% statewide. Grade 7 Algebra I was 100%, and grade 8 Geometry was 93%. By contrast, grade 8 Science was 18%, 1 point below the statewide 19%.
Core-subject results weakened in the latest year: the three-grade ELA average moved from 66% versus 57% statewide in 2024–2025 to 49% versus 53% in 2025–2026, while the math average shifted from 36% versus 33% to 31% versus 34%. The largest change was in grade 6, where ELA fell 45 points and math fell 34 points between those years. SchoolDigger lists the school at the 68th percentile with 3 stars for 2025–2026, up from the 63rd percentile in each of the prior two years. Context measures for 2024–2025 include a student-teacher ratio of 11.7 and 43% of students reported as free/reduced lunch eligible; chronic absenteeism was 11%, compared with 14% statewide. Because this is the only school in the list, there is no school-to-school comparison.
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