Public school / Middle
Franklin Middle School at Sampson G. Smith Campus
Somerset, New Jersey
- NCES ID
- 340549000563
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Franklin Middle School at Sampson G. Smith Campus is a public middle school in Somerset, New Jersey, run by Franklin Township Public School District. It enrols 706 students — the 18986th 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
706
Teachers
71.0
Students per teacher
9.9
Free or reduced-price lunch
47.0%
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 Franklin Township Public 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.
- 1Franklin High School2,220 students
- 2Franklin Middle School at Hamilton Street Campus730 students
- 3Franklin Middle School at Sampson G. Smith Campus706 students
- 4Franklin Park School660 students
- 5Claremont Elementary School655 students
- 6Elizabeth Avenue School554 students
- 7Hillcrest School476 students
- 8Macafee Road School413 students
- Enrollment+51.7%
- Teachers+86.8%
- Students per teacher−12.4%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+71.5%
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