At a glance
These measures follow the same rule on every school page, not a ranking of this school’s biggest changes. Each row names its evidence dates; trend rows do not describe every year in between.
Fall enrollment was 134 students in 2024-25 and 142 students in 2025-26 — 8 more students.
See enrollment evidence →School-wide ELA proficiency was 46.3% in 2021-22 and 47.7% in 2024-25 — 1.4 percentage points higher.
See test-score evidence →The chronic-absence rate was 23.4% in 2021-22 and 17.3% in 2024-25 — 6.1 percentage points lower.
See attendance evidence →These are descriptive measures from statewide NJDOE datasets, not a quality rating or an explanation of cause. Proficiency, attendance, and graduation figures use All Students; subgroup patterns may differ.
In 2025-26 it enrolled 142 students across grades 7–8. That is 66 fewer than in 2019-20 (208) — the school has shrunk. Its biggest cohort is grade 8.
Students enrolled in each grade each fall, stacked to the total — so the top edge is total enrollment. Bands run from the lowest grade (light) to the highest (dark); a band that appears or disappears is a grade the school added or dropped. “Other” is students with no grade level (mostly special education), so the bands always sum to total. Source: NJDOE Fall Enrollment.
The largest group in both 2019-20 and 2025-26 was White students — 54% then, 53% now.
Each group’s share of enrollment over time, or its head count — toggle above. New Jersey expanded race and ethnicity reporting from five to seven categories in 2006-07 (dashed line), so “two or more races” appears only after; Asian here includes Pacific Islander. Source: NJDOE Fall Enrollment.
Between 2021-22 and 2025-26 the makeup of this school shifted noticeably.
The index is half the sum of every group’s change in share, on a 0–100 scale (how it works). It is computed from the same counts as the makeup chart above — source: NJDOE Fall Enrollment. Compare any two years in the explorer →
In 2025-26, 50% of students were certified for free or reduced-price lunch.
Share of students certified for free or reduced-price meals, through a household application or an automatic match. The lighter line shows the district overall, for comparison. Some districts serve free meals to every student under the Community Eligibility Provision. Those districts often stop collecting household income forms, so their reported share can run below the number of low-income students they enroll. Source: NJDOE Fall Enrollment.
Growth measures how much students progressed over the year against peers who scored the same the year before — 50 is a typical year. In 2024-25, this school’s median growth percentile was 58 in English and 46 in math — NJ calls this “typical” growth.
English language arts: 47.7% met or exceeded expectations in 2024-25 (state 53%), up from 46.3% in 2021-22.
| School year | Met or exceeded | Valid scores | Test participation | NJ statewide |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | 46.3% | 188 | 98.5% | 49.0% |
| 2022-23 | 43.1% | 188 | 99.5% | 51.3% |
| 2023-24 | 37.1% | 178 | 99.5% | 52.2% |
| 2024-25 | 47.7% | 132 | 98.5% | 53.0% |
Source: NJDOE 2024-25 school-detail workbook (330 MB). How this data works →
By grade, year to year
Each panel is one grade — watch its mix of levels shift across 2021–2024.
Math: 25% met or exceeded expectations in 2024-25 (state 42%), up from 22.3% in 2021-22.
| School year | Met or exceeded | Valid scores | Test participation | NJ statewide |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | 22.3% | 188 | 98.1% | 36.0% |
| 2022-23 | 22.3% | 188 | 99.5% | 38.2% |
| 2023-24 | 23.7% | 177 | 98.9% | 40.2% |
| 2024-25 | 25.0% | 132 | 98.5% | 42.0% |
Source: NJDOE 2024-25 school-detail workbook (330 MB). How this data works →
By grade, year to year
Each panel is one grade — watch its mix of levels shift across 2021–2024.
In each panel the flat line is the proficiency boundary: levels 4–5 (met or exceeded) fill the area above it, levels 1–3 below — so a smaller reported share in levels 4–5 makes the area above the line shrink (it isn’t a misleading upward slope). Light = level 1 (did not yet meet expectations), dark = level 5 (exceeded); the % marks the proficient share at the first and last points. The first set of panels follows each grade across the years; the second lines up aggregate grade results one grade higher each year. It approximates a class cohort, not linked individual students. Growth is the median Student Growth Percentile (50 = a typical year), reported only through grade 8. The NJSLA was not given in spring 2020 and was disrupted the next year. Source: NJ School Performance Reports.
In 2024-25, 17.3% of students were chronically absent — missing at least 10% of school days — down from 23.4% in 2021-22.
† New Jersey says these years are not comparable with the ones beside them
The requirement to report status in meeting annual ESSA targets for 2020-2021 was waived. As a result, NJDOE will not report state averages and whether state averages were met for 2020-2021. Additionally, because the number of days students spent in in-person and remote learning environments during the school year differed, the NJDOE recommends caution in comparing 2020-2021 attendance data between schools and districts and to prior or future school years.NJDOE 2020-21 workbook notes sheet.
Chronic absenteeism — the share of students who missed 10% or more of the days they were enrolled (roughly 18 days across a full school year). The lighter lines show the district overall and New Jersey, for comparison. Source: NJ School Performance Reports, 2015-16 through 2024-25.
2021-22 – 2024-25 · the ESSA record
New Jersey has published a summative rating for Palmyra Middle School in three school years under ESSA. The rating is a percentile inside a group of schools NJDOE considers comparable — where the school placed among them, not a score and not a grade.
NJDOE weighted the indicators the same way for elementary and middle schools in every one of these editions, 2021-22 to 2024-25, so these three ratings may be read as one line.
Higher is further up: the line is the share of similar New Jersey schools this school placed above, in each year NJDOE ranked it. The axis runs the full 0 to 100 because a percentile’s whole range is real. This is a position, not a level. Every number NJDOE puts into the rating is itself a ranking against that year’s other schools — each indicator score is a percentile before it is weighted — so a year in which every school in the state improved would look exactly like a year in which none did. What the line can show is where this school sat among its contemporaries; what it cannot show is whether the contemporaries moved. The summative score behind each point is in the table below. Where the line stops and starts again, the state changed the calculation and the two stretches are not comparable; where the panel is shaded, nothing was calculated at all.
| School year | Percentile in group | Summative score | NJDOE’s group | Identification |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 35.77 | 41.74 | Elementary | Not an identification year |
| 2023-24 | 3.25 | 13.08 | Elementary | Not an identification year |
| 2022-23 | 20.64 | 30.92 | Elementary | No comprehensive or targeted status published for this school |
| 2021-22 | Not ranked this year | — | Elementary | No comprehensive or targeted status published for this school |
Inside 2024-25 · what produced the most recent rating
For 2024-25 New Jersey weighted five indicators to add to 100 and gave this school 41.74 of those 100 points. It then ranked that total against the 1,659 New Jersey schools it grouped as Elementary for the year, which puts this school above 35.77% of them. That ranking is a place in a line-up of similar schools, not a grade and not a status.
Each bar’s light track is the points that indicator was worth at this school; the filled part is the points it earned. NJDOE converts each result into a 0–100 indicator score — built from the standardised results of each student group large enough to report, not from the school-wide number alone — then multiplies that score by the weight. The tracks add to 100 and the filled bars add to the summative score, within the publisher’s own rounding.
| Indicator | Result | Indicator score | Weight | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ELA proficiencystudents who met or exceeded expectations on the state ELA test | 47.7% | 39.5 | 17.5% | 6.91 |
| Math proficiencystudents who met or exceeded expectations on the state math test | 25% | 17.21 | 17.5% | 3.01 |
| ELA growththe school’s median student growth percentile in ELA | 58 | 77.68 | 25% | 19.42 |
| Math growththe school’s median student growth percentile in math | 46 | 33.86 | 25% | 8.46 |
| Progress toward English proficiencyNJDOE’s published Progress Toward ELP rate, for English learners | Not published | — | — | — |
| Students not chronically absentstudents who were not chronically absent — 100 minus the chronic-absenteeism rate, so a higher number is better | 82.7% | 26.17 | 15% | 3.93 |
NJDOE published no result for Progress toward English proficiency. Below the state’s minimum group size nothing is reported at all, and an indicator with no result carries no weight — the remaining indicators were rescaled to add to 100 without it. Four-year graduation rate, Five-year graduation rate, Six-year graduation rate, High school persistence are not part of the calculation for a school NJDOE groups as Elementary.
NJDOE’s Targeted Summary published no student-group flag for this school for 2026-27.
These are policy-defined values: which indicators count, and how much each counts, is set by New Jersey’s ESSA plan, not by any measure of school quality. The weights are specific to this school — an indicator that drops out shifts weight onto the rest, so the same indicator is worth different points at different schools. The workbooks measure 2024-25 and were published on April 2, 2026; 2024-25 was not a year New Jersey identified schools for comprehensive or targeted support, so these files carry no CSI or ATSI status. These weights are 2024-25’s: the indicator set and the weighting have both moved across the eight editions above, and for some school types they moved in this one. Row 2024_25_Accountability_Workbook_File_Comprehensive_Support_and_Improvement.xlsx#Summative!395:AU of the workbook, and the method in NJDOE’s accountability technical guide.
Profile built from New Jersey Department of Education Fall Enrollment data, 1998-99 through 2025-26. How this data works →
