Middletown High School South
Middletown, NJ · High School · Grades 9-12
Middletown High School South is a high school in Middletown, NJ with 1,474 students enrolled and a 73% proficiency rate. Part of Middletown Township Public School District. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
About This School
Middletown High School South is a high school located in Middletown, New Jersey. The school serves 1,474 students in grades 9-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 12.2:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 73% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading. The school reports a 93% graduation rate.
6% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Middletown High School South is part of the Middletown Township Public School District in New Jersey.
How This School Compares
Middletown High School South has 1,474 students enrolled, making it larger than the average school in Middletown Township Public School District (560 students). Its 73% proficiency rate is 6 percentage points above the district average of 67%. Compared to the New Jersey state average of 56%, the school performs 17 points higher. With a 12.2:1 student-teacher ratio, it offers smaller class sizes than the national average.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Middletown High School South has 1,474 students enrolled in grades 9-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 12.2:1.
According to EDFacts data, 73% of students at Middletown High School South meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Middletown High School South has a 93% graduation rate, measuring the percentage of students who graduate within four years.
Middletown High School South is part of the Middletown Township Public School District in Middletown, 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.
The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
Every number on this page links back to NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.
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.