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Adamsville Primary School
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 62 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New Jersey's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Adamsville Primary School
Adamsville Primary School, a mid-sized primary school in Bridgewater, New Jersey, overseen by Bridgewater-Raritan Regional School District, enrolls 461 students, covering grades pre-K through 4.
Bridgewater-Raritan Regional School District comprises 11 schools with combined enrollment of 7,774 students; Adamsville Primary School is among them.
Demographically, Adamsville Primary School lists that 34% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school reports 32% Hispanic, 22% Asian, 7% multiracial, 5% Black. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 52%.
On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. Roughly 25% of students at Adamsville Primary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
After controlling for student poverty, Adamsville Primary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.4%, the actual is 54.9%, a residual of +2.5 points.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Somerset County indicate median household income runs about $140,374, roughly 58% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Somerset County's 84 public schools (combined enrollment of about 51,276 students), Adamsville Primary School is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Van Derveer Elementary School, around 0.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Adamsville Primary School comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 40.3%.
The school occupies a commuter-belt site.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 19%: 569 students in 2018 compared to 461 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share ticked down from 27% to 22%. Class-load math has fell: from 9.5:1 in 2018 to 8.3:1 in 2025.
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