Summary:
ZIP code 07874 has one middle school, Byram Intermediate School, serving grades 5–8 and enrolling 346 students. Its 2025–2026 results were strongest in English Language Arts (ELA) and math: its average proficiency was 68% in ELA and 49% in math, compared with 53% and 37% statewide. The clearest overall finding is that Byram exceeded state averages in all four tested grades in both ELA and math.
There is no other middle school in the ZIP code to rank above or below Byram, so it is the only local school-level standout, not a winner in a school-to-school comparison. Its most striking results were 100% proficiency on both Algebra I measures in 2025–2026: the end-of-course result was 60 percentage points above the state’s 40%, and the eighth-grade test result was 26 points above the state’s 75%. Among regular grade-level results, seventh grade had the highest ELA and math proficiency, at 72% and 60%; sixth grade had the lowest, at 61% and 43%. Science was a more mixed picture: fifth grade’s 26% was below the state, while eighth grade’s 28% was above it.
ELA and math averages improved from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while science declined: ELA rose from 65% to 68%, math from 42% to 49%, and science fell from 29% to 27%. The average advantage over the state grew in ELA, from 10 to 15 percentage points, and math, from 6 to 13 points; science’s advantage narrowed from 4.1 to 3.6 points. Individual grades did not all move in the same direction, so these year-to-year results do not track the same students. SchoolDigger ranked Byram 135th of 743 schools statewide, at the 82nd percentile, in 2025–2026; it ranked 163rd of 752, at the 78th percentile, the prior year. Other context for 2024–2025: the student-teacher ratio was 10.1, 9% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible, and chronic absenteeism was 7%, compared with 14% statewide.
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