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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / Middle

Grover Cleveland Middle School

Caldwell, New Jersey

NCES ID
340258002010
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Grover Cleveland Middle School is a public middle school in Caldwell, New Jersey, run by Caldwell-West School District. It enrols 586 students — the 28031st largest of 2,585 public schools in New Jersey.

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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

586students

28031st nationally, tied with 93

Teachers

50.0FTE

15022nd nationally, tied with 725

Students per teacher

11.7students

18360th nationally, tied with 685

Free or reduced-price lunch

6.3%percent

84771st nationally, tied with 43

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.

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Within Caldwell-West 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.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1James Caldwell High School789 students
  2. 2Grover Cleveland Middle School586 students
  3. 3Washington Elementary School391 students
  4. 4Jefferson Elementary School272 students
  5. 5Lincoln Elementary School259 students
  6. 6Wilson Elementary School233 students
  7. 7Harrison School30 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: New Jersey median across 2,585 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment+25.9%
  • Teachers+31.6%
  • Students per teacher+3.5%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−77.0%
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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
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.