Bartle Elementary School

Bartle Elementary School is one of the moderately sized elementary schools in HIGHLAND PARK, New Jersey, run under Highland Park Boro School District, with 405 students on its rolls from grades 2 through 5.

Within Highland Park Boro School District, which oversees 4 schools and 1,573 students, Bartle Elementary School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Bartle Elementary School shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 33%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 29% White, 19% Asian, 12% Black, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Middlesex County as a whole is about 24% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Bartle Elementary School reports 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.3:1. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 52% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Bartle Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.8%, the actual is 41.1%, a residual of +3.3 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Middlesex County indicate median household earnings sit near $111,549, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Middlesex County runs 214 public schools (combined enrollment of about 129,255 students), of which Bartle Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Highland Park Middle School, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Bartle Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 31.3%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Looking at the recent track record. Bartle Elementary School's enrollment has fell 13% since 2018, when it stood at 463 (now 405). Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 21% to 33%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 10.6:1 in 2018 to 9.3:1 in 2025.

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