Bayberry School

As a moderately sized K-5 school in Watchung, New Jersey, Bayberry School hosts 391 students from grades pre-K through 4, part of Watchung Borough School District.

Watchung Borough School District runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 667 students. Bayberry School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Bayberry School logs that the most-represented group is White (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 19% Hispanic, 18% Asian, 6% multiracial, 5% Black. Compared to Somerset County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, Bayberry School lists 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting Bayberry School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 1% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Somerset County runs at roughly 28%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Bayberry School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.5%, the actual is 62.1%, a residual of -3.3 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Somerset County shows median household income runs about $140,374, 58% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Bayberry School is one of 84 public schools in Somerset County (combined enrollment of about 51,276 students).

Nearest neighbor: Mary Kay McMillin Early Childhood Center, around 1.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Bayberry School comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 43.1%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Bayberry School has edged up 14%, going from 342 students in 2018 to 391 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 11% to 19% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 9.4:1 today.

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