Enrollment
311
Elementary
DISTRICT 365 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·TRENTON PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341629003222
Benjamin C Gregory Elementary School
500 RUTHERFORD AVENUE, TRENTON, NJ 08618 · (609) 656-4740 · Mercer County
GRADES KG–03ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL311 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.0:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.3:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
91%
283 students
DISTRICT 81% · STATE 41%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 82 | 26% |
| Grade 1 | 95 | 31% |
| Grade 2 | 77 | 25% |
| Grade 3 | 57 | 18% |
Student demographics
46%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 46% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
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NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
18.2%
NJ avg 53.1% . +10.3pp since 2023
Math
21.5%
NJ avg 41.6% . +15.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 18 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 22 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 10 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 15 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 18.2% | 21.5% |
| 2023-24 | 7.9% | 6.3% |
% Meeting or Exceeding Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: NJSLA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
13.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
16.4%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 13% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 16% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Benjamin C Gregory Elementary School
Benjamin C Gregory Elementary School's state test result (13.5% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benjamin C Gregory Elementary School this school | 311 | 91.0% | 13.5% |
| Ollie Culbreth Jr. School JERSEY CITY | 335 | 85.4% | 9.0% |
| Atlantic Community Charter School Galloway | 333 | 93.4% | 14.6% |
| New Horizons Community Charter School NEWARK | 370 | 99.2% | 19.9% |
| South 17th Street School NEWARK | 368 | 90.8% | 21.6% |
| Martin Center for the Arts JERSEY CITY | 359 | 84.4% | 10.1% |
Matched among New Jersey elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Benjamin C Gregory Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Mercer County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 13.5% | #1,219 of 1,290 | #46 of 56 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 21.5% | #1,128 of 1,319 ▲ 165 | #41 of 56 ▲ 12 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 18.2% | #1,247 of 1,319 ▲ 56 | #45 of 56 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 311 | #1,062 of 1,562 | #40 of 60 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.0:1 | #1,080 of 1,390 | #43 of 57 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 46.3% | #908 of 1,392 | #41 of 57 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 91.0% | #48 of 1,481 | #3 of 58 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -42.2% | #18 of 798 | #1 of 30 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
311
-189 (-38%) vs 2020
-52% since 1990-91, when it was 650
Student : Teacher
13.0:1
was 13.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 311 | 24 | 13.0:1 | 91% (283) |
| 2023-24 | 295 | 26 | 11.3:1 | 74% (219) |
| 2022-23 | 269 | 25 | 10.8:1 | 84% (227) |
| 2020-21 | 500 | 36 | 13.9:1 | 60% (299) |
| 2017-18 | 538 | 36 | 14.9:1 | 92% (497) |
| 2015-16 | 573 | 41 | 14.0:1 | 93% (534) |
| 2010-11 | 371 | 30 | 12.4:1 | 69% (256) |
| 2000-01 | 455 | 37 | 12.3:1 | 77% (352) |
| 1990-91 | 650 | 34 | 19.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Benjamin C Gregory Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 42% (538 to 311); teachers down 33% (36 to 24).
About Benjamin C Gregory Elementary School
Benjamin C Gregory Elementary School is a small elementary school in TRENTON, New Jersey, (ZIP code 08618). Total enrollment is 311 students, and the grades served are kindergarten through 3. Elementary schools in New Jersey have about 405 students on average; enrollment here is 23% lower.
Trenton Public School District has a total of 25 schools and 13,549 students, Benjamin C Gregory Elementary School among them.
More than half of enrollment at Benjamin C Gregory Elementary School is Black: 69%. The remaining shares are 23% Hispanic and 6% multiracial. Mercer County as a whole is about 19% Black, so the school's share is higher. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 46%.
There are 24 full-time-equivalent teachers at Benjamin C Gregory Elementary School, giving a ratio of 13.0:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in New Jersey is 11.4:1. A total of 283 students, or 91%, are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is 43 points above the 48% average for public schools in Mercer County.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, Benjamin C Gregory Elementary School is 2.9 points below its prediction. Actual: 13.5%. Predicted: 16.4%.
Mercer County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $100,645, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 45%, and about 7% of people live in poverty. Mercer County's 110 public schools enroll about 58,647 students and include Benjamin C Gregory Elementary School.
Benjamin C Gregory Elementary School is about 0.3 miles from Cadwalader Elementary School, its nearest public school. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. On proficiency, Benjamin C Gregory Elementary School is ahead of the 10.0% nearby average, ranking 3rd of 9.
NCES lists the school's locale as City: Small. That means it sits inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment was 311 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 500.
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Mercer County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
385,864
Census ACS
Median income
$100,645
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
45%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
110
58,647 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Trenton Public School District
- Trenton Central High School - Main CampusHigh · 2,097 students
- Trenton Central High School-9th Grade AcademyHigh · 890 students
- Capital City High SchoolHigh · 756 students
- Grace A Dunn Middle SchoolMiddle · 703 students
- Hedgepeth Williams Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 668 students
- Dr. Martin Luther King Middle SchoolMiddle · 650 students
Other schools in TRENTON
- Trenton Central High School - Main CampusHigh · 2,097 students
- Foundation Academy Charter SchoolCombined · 1,155 students
- Trenton Central High School-9th Grade AcademyHigh · 890 students
- Capital City High SchoolHigh · 756 students
- Grace A Dunn Middle SchoolMiddle · 703 students
- Hedgepeth Williams Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 668 students
Nearby schools
- Cadwalader Elementary School0.3 mi · 200
- Battle Monument Intermediate School0.5 mi · 499
- Foundation Academy Charter School0.5 mi · 1,155
- Joseph Stokes Elementary School0.7 mi · 347
- Parkway Elementary School0.7 mi · 418
- Arthur J. Holland Middle School0.8 mi · 474
Frequently asked questions
About Benjamin C Gregory Elementary SchoolHow large is Benjamin C Gregory Elementary School?
Benjamin C Gregory Elementary School enrolls approximately 311 students in grades KG-03.
What grades does Benjamin C Gregory Elementary School serve?
Benjamin C Gregory Elementary School serves grades KG-03.
How many students per teacher at Benjamin C Gregory Elementary School?
Approximately 13.0:1 students per teacher at Benjamin C Gregory Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Benjamin C Gregory Elementary School?
Student demographics at Benjamin C Gregory Elementary School are roughly 1% White, 23% Hispanic, 69% Black, 6% Two or more.
Is Benjamin C Gregory Elementary School public or private?
Benjamin C Gregory Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Trenton Public School District.
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