Barley Sheaf Elementary School

Barley Sheaf Elementary School operates as a reasonably sized K-5 school in FLEMINGTON, New Jersey, one of the schools within Flemington-Raritan Regional School District. Current enrollment sits at 376 students spanning grades pre-K through 4.

Flemington-Raritan Regional School District runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 3,224 students. Barley Sheaf Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Barley Sheaf Elementary School records that 67% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 19% Hispanic, 8% Asian, 3% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Hunterdon County as a whole is about 81% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. An estimated 18% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Barley Sheaf Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 56.5%; this one delivers 61.5%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Hunterdon County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $141,715 per year, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. Across Hunterdon County's 55 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,056 students), Barley Sheaf Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: J.P. Case Middle School, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Barley Sheaf Elementary School comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 56.6%.

Barley Sheaf Elementary School operates from a small-town location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Barley Sheaf Elementary School has expanded 11%, going from 338 students in 2018 to 376 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 84% to 67% across the same window.

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