Public school / Middle
Columbia Middle School
Berkeley Hts, New Jersey
- NCES ID
- 340153005436
- District
- Berkeley Heights School District
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Columbia Middle School is a public middle school in Berkeley Hts, New Jersey, run by Berkeley Heights School District. It enrols 560 students — the 30557th largest of 2,585 public schools in New Jersey.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
560
Teachers
52.0
Students per teacher
10.8
Free or reduced-price lunch
0.7%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Berkeley Heights School District
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Governor Livingston High School936 students
- 2Columbia Middle School560 students
- 3Thomas P. Hughes School276 students
- 4Mary Kay Mcmillin Early Childhood Center241 students
- 5William Woodruff School234 students
- 6Mountain Park School223 students
- Enrollment+20.3%
- Teachers+36.8%
- Students per teacher−4.4%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−97.4%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory