Summary:
Zip code 08844 has two middle-level schools in Hillsborough Township Public School District: Auten Road Intermediate School, serving grades 5–6, and Hillsborough Township Middle School, serving grades 7–8. In 2025–2026, all 10 reported grade-level ELA, math and science results were above their corresponding state results. The clearest shared strength is mathematics, where school results averaged 22 percentage points above state results, compared with 18 points in ELA and 20 in science.
Auten Road’s strongest listed result was grade 5 math: 70% proficient, 25 points above the state; its smallest advantage was 16 points in grade 6 ELA. At Hillsborough Township Middle, grade 8 ELA stood out among conventional grade-level results at 75%, 21 points above the state. Its grade 8 Geometry result was closest to the state comparison: 89% versus 86%, a 2-point advantage. The school’s highest reported result was grade 7 Algebra I at 96%, 4 points above the state; Algebra I end-of-course proficiency was 96%, 56 points above the state. These are standout and closest-to-state results, not a like-grade ranking of the two schools.
Geometry is the clearest recent setback at Hillsborough Township Middle: grade 8 proficiency fell from 100% in 2024–2025 to 89% in 2025–2026, narrowing its state advantage from 12 points to 2. Auten Road had mixed changes, including a 4-point rise in grade 5 math and a 4-point decline in grade 5 science. SchoolDigger ranks Hillsborough Township Middle 95th of 743 schools, in the 87th percentile, with four stars; no Auten ranking is provided. In 2024–2025, student-teacher ratios were 9.9 at Auten and 11.2 at Hillsborough, while free/reduced lunch eligible was 15% and 17%, respectively. Because the schools serve different grades, their results do not establish which is better head-to-head.
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