A Chester Redshaw School

A Chester Redshaw School, a high-enrollment elementary-level community in NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, run under New Brunswick School District, caters to 678 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 405 students per school, that is 67% larger than typical.

A Chester Redshaw School is one of 13 schools operated by New Brunswick School District, a district that hosts 8,337 students overall.

Demographically, A Chester Redshaw School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (94%). Other groups include 4% Black. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 66 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 89% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Middlesex County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, A Chester Redshaw School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 17.6%, the actual is 21.0%, a residual of +3.3 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Middlesex County shows the typical household earns roughly $111,549 per year, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. A Chester Redshaw School is one of 214 public schools in Middlesex County (combined enrollment of about 129,255 students).

Livingston Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), A Chester Redshaw School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 19.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at A Chester Redshaw School has ticked down 34%, going from 1,034 students in 2018 to 678 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 in 2025.

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