Hillside Avenue School
Cranford, NJ · Middle School
Hillside Avenue School is a middle school in Cranford, NJ with 734 students enrolled and a 68% proficiency rate. Part of Cranford Public School District. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
About This School
Hillside Avenue School is a middle school located in Cranford, New Jersey. The school serves 734 students. The student-to-teacher ratio is 9.4:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 68% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading.
3% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Hillside Avenue School is part of the Cranford Public School District in New Jersey.
How This School Compares
Hillside Avenue School has 734 students enrolled, making it larger than the average school in Cranford Public School District (533 students). Its 68% proficiency rate is 4 percentage points below the district average of 73%. Compared to the New Jersey state average of 56%, the school performs 12 points higher. With a 9.4:1 student-teacher ratio, it offers smaller class sizes than the national average.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Hillside Avenue School has 734 students enrolled. The student-to-teacher ratio is 9.4:1.
According to EDFacts data, 68% of students at Hillside Avenue School meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Hillside Avenue School is part of the Cranford Public School District in Cranford, New Jersey. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
For this entity, the underlying data on this page comes from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. The breakdown above is the federal record; the paragraphs below add the per-entity context that makes the headline numbers usable for a real decision rather than just a data lookup.
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For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.