Schools in Zip Code 08535

ZIP code 08535 has one listed school, Millstone Township Middle School, serving grades 6–8 and 423 students in the Millstone Township School District. There are no other local schools to compare, so the clearest picture comes from state and district results. In 2025–2026, the school was above New Jersey in every reported grade-level ELA and math result, with its largest advantage in grade 8 math: 43% proficient versus 23% statewide, a 20-point gap.

There is no separate top or bottom school in this ZIP code: Millstone Township Middle School is the only option listed. Its strongest relative results were in Algebra I: 98% were proficient on the end-of-course measure, compared with 40% statewide, a 58-point advantage; grade 8 Algebra I was 98% versus 75%, a 23-point advantage. The school also exceeded state results in grades 6–8 ELA by 10–17 points and math by 6–20 points. Its results were close to the district’s: grade-level ELA and math differed by no more than about one point, and reported Algebra I results matched.

Results over time were mixed rather than uniformly improving. The average ELA result across grades 6–8 edged down from 67% in 2024–2025 to 66% in 2025–2026, while the math average rose from 44% to 46%; grade 8 science fell from 29% to 25%, narrowing the school’s advantage over the state from 10 points to 6. SchoolDigger’s ranking improved from 202 of 743 schools (73rd percentile) in 2023–2024 to 172 of 743 (77th percentile) in 2025–2026. In 2024–2025, chronic absenteeism was 8%, below the district’s 9% and the state’s 14%; the school reported 8% free/reduced lunch eligible and a 9.2 student–teacher ratio that year. With just one school listed, these figures cannot show how its results compare with another nearby school.