Middle · New Jersey

Explore Middle School

Career and technical

Explore Middle School, a public middle school in Jersey City, New Jersey: grades 6–8, 163 students, 11.2 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Hudson County Schools of Technology School District.

Size and class size

Compared with middle schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.

Students
163
Teachers (FTE)
14.5
Students per teacher
11.2
Grades
6–8
Middle

More students per teacher than 58% of middle schools in New Jersey

Median 10.8 · 441 schools compared

Fewer students per teacher than 83% of middle schools in the US

Median 14.6 · 15,584 schools compared

Smaller than 96% of middle schools in New Jersey

Median 544 · 443 schools compared

Smaller than 89% of middle schools in the US

Median 524 · 16,046 schools compared

State test results

Share of students scoring proficient or above on New Jersey's tests, grades 3–8, 2024–25 school year.

Reading and writing

New Jersey: 54%

90%proficient

+0.9 points from 2023–24 school year

A higher share proficient than 98% of middle schools in New Jersey

Median 60% · 442 middle schools compared

162 students tested, grades 6, 7, 8 · NJSLA; proficient means Levels 4-5

Math

New Jersey: 41%

68%proficient

+8.1 points from 2023–24 school year

A higher share proficient than 90% of middle schools in New Jersey

Median 37% · 442 middle schools compared

143 students tested, grades 6, 7, 8 · NJSLA; proficient means Levels 4-5

Each state sets its own test and its own bar for “proficient”, so results compare only within a state. Results also follow family income closely: a school's share reflects its students' circumstances as much as its teaching.

Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository version 3.1. More information about these assessments over time, including participation and test changes, is available from the Education Data Center.

What it offers

Grades
Middle · Grades 6–8
Type
District school · Career and technical
Instruction
In person
Area
Large city

Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Hudson County Schools of Technology School District.

Location

Address
180 9th Street, Jersey City, NJ 07302
Phone
(201)631-6395
City or town
Jersey City

Nearby middle schools

The closest public middle schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.

SchoolGradesStudentsStudents / teacher
6–875516.1
6–843810.3
6–78721.8
6–890612.4
6–825312.6
MS 297Free meals for all
6–82978.9

Sources

Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level; state test results are compared only within a state.

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