The top reported proficiency rate is 68% in English language arts. The lowest is 39% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Brooklawn Middle School
Brooklawn Middle School is one of two public middle schools in the Parsippany-Troy Hills Township School District, serving grades six through eight in a large, auto-oriented suburban township that lacks a single walkable downtown. The school sits within a residential neighborhood amid Parsippany’s dispersed patchwork of lake communities, office parks, and highway corridors. Its enrollment is sizable for a middle school, and the student body is racially and economically diverse in a way that reflects the township’s broader demographic shifts: Asian students make up the largest share, followed by white students, with smaller but notable populations of Hispanic, Black, and multiracial students. The share of students who qualify for free or reduced-price lunch is modest, pointing to a largely middle- to upper-income community.
Academically, Brooklawn presents a mixed picture. On state assessments in English language arts, the school posts solid proficiency rates across all three grade levels, with eighth grade reaching a high mark. Math results are more uneven. Sixth grade shows a strong proficiency rate, but the rate declines steadily as students move through seventh and into eighth grade. Science, tested only in eighth grade under a different proficiency standard, comes in lower. When looking at overall proficiency across all tested subjects and grades, Brooklawn falls below the midpoint when weighed against other districts in Morris County. A parent considering this school may want to ask how the math program supports students as they advance and what interventions exist for the drop-off in middle school mathematics. The school’s grade band means there is no graduation rate to report, and data on chronic absenteeism and discipline was not available in the source material.
The peer environment at Brooklawn is shaped by Parsippany’s character as a corporate crossroads community. Major employers like Allergan, Zoetis, and Toyota Financial Services are headquartered here, drawing families from a range of professional backgrounds. The township has been named to Money magazine’s “Best Places to Live” list multiple times, most recently placing fifteenth in 2022, and its population has grown steadily over recent decades, with a significant Asian American community that includes a large Indian-American population. The housing market reflects this desirability. Home values in the area are high, and rents are steep, making this a costly place to buy or rent for families. The median price to income ratio suggests affordability challenges for many households, and the local rental market consumes a substantial share of income. The county’s housing market has shown a mix of rising listing counts and modest price adjustments, but overall demand remains strong.
The district itself has been engaged in ongoing facility upgrades and curriculum improvements, and there has been community discussion about expanding full-day kindergarten across the elementary schools, a topic that carries implications for families with younger children. For middle school parents, the district’s focus on infrastructure and program updates may eventually affect Brooklawn’s buildings and course offerings, though specific plans were not detailed in the available sources. The school’s location within the Parsippany-Troy Hills district means it feeds into one of the township’s two high schools. Parsippany has a multi-centered civic life with lake communities, the Swaminarayan Hindu temple, and scattered commercial strips rather than a traditional downtown. Street life is minimal; nearly everything requires a car. The township operates a limited weekday bus system for residents, but the area is designed around highway access with Interstates and major state routes.
For a family weighing Brooklawn, the academic data suggests that the school is stronger in literacy than in mathematics and science, and that its overall performance relative to other Morris County districts sits in the lower half. The student body is large and diverse, the community is affluent and suburban, and the housing market is expensive. A parent whose child needs support in math or science may want to investigate those programs more closely. The school’s size and the district’s multiple elementary feeder patterns mean that peer groups will vary by neighborhood. The available data leaves out information on course access, staffing ratios, and disciplinary climate, so a visit or conversation with school leadership would fill important gaps. Brooklawn serves the middle years of a student’s K-12 journey in one of New Jersey’s most populous and economically driven suburbs, where the school sits within a broader district that is actively working on facility and program modernization.
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