Benjamin C Gregory Elementary School

Benjamin C Gregory Elementary School is a cozy K-5 school in TRENTON, New Jersey, run under Trenton Public School District. The school serves 311 students in grades K through 3. Enrollment runs roughly 23% below the state mean of about 405.

Benjamin C Gregory Elementary School is one of 25 schools operated by Trenton Public School District, a district that teaches 13,549 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Benjamin C Gregory Elementary School lists that Black students make up the majority at 69%; the rest is composed of 23% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Mercer County as a whole is about 19% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting Benjamin C Gregory Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. About 91% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Mercer County (around 48%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Benjamin C Gregory Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 16.4%, the actual is 13.5%, a residual of -2.9 points.

In the surrounding community, Mercer County reports that median household income runs about $100,645, about 45% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Benjamin C Gregory Elementary School is one of 110 public schools in Mercer County (combined enrollment of about 58,647 students).

Nearest neighbor: Cadwalader Elementary School, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Benjamin C Gregory Elementary School comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 10.0%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Benjamin C Gregory Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 42% since 2018, when it stood at 538 (now 311). Over the same period, the Black share fell from 92% to 69%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 today.

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