Summary:
Zip code 08010 has one middle school, Samuel M Ridgway Middle School, serving grades 5–8 with 417 students. Its clearest strength is Algebra I end-of-course proficiency: 70% of students were proficient, compared with 40% statewide, while grade 8 math was also above the state and grades 5–7 math were well below it.
The school’s strongest latest results were in Algebra I end-of-course and grade 8 math: proficiency was 70% in Algebra I, 30 points above the state, and 30% in grade 8 math, 7 points above. The separate grade 8 Algebra I comparison was 5 points below the state, however. Results in earlier grades were weaker: grade 6 math was 9%, 31 points below the state, and grade 6 ELA was 26%, 25 points below. Grade 8 ELA was closer to the state at 51%, just 3 points below; across grades, average gaps were 18 points below in ELA and 20 points below in math.
Results shifted unevenly across the two years provided: the average science gap narrowed from 18 to 12 points, while the math gap barely changed; grade 8 math rose 28 points, but grades 5 and 7 math fell 12 and 13 points. SchoolDigger rankings also moved: from 561st of 743 schools (24th percentile) in 2023–2024, down to 615th of 752 (18th percentile) in 2024–2025, then up to 524th of 743 (29th percentile) in 2025–2026. In 2024–2025, the student-teacher ratio was 11.3 and 68% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible; chronic absenteeism was 9%, below the district’s 12% and the state’s 14%. Because the area has only one school in this data, there is no local school-to-school comparison.
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