Public school / Middle
Thomas Jefferson Middle School
Fair Lawn, New Jersey
- NCES ID
- 340498000053
- District
- Fair Lawn Public School District
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Thomas Jefferson Middle School is a public middle school in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, run by Fair Lawn Public School District. It enrols 1,134 students — the 6612th 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
1,134
Teachers
91.0
Students per teacher
12.5
Free or reduced-price lunch
10.0%
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 Fair Lawn 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.
- 1Fair Lawn High School1,624 students
- 2Thomas Jefferson Middle School1,134 students
- 3Memorial Middle School626 students
- 4Henry B. Milnes Elementary School428 students
- 5Radburn Elementary School393 students
- 6Westmoreland Elementary School393 students
- 7Warren Point Elementary School392 students
- 8John A. Forrest Elementary School269 students
- Enrollment+143.6%
- Teachers+139.5%
- Students per teacher+10.6%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−63.5%
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