Blanquita B. Valenti Community School

Blanquita B. Valenti Community School is one of the heavily attended K-5 schools in New Brunswick, New Jersey, run under New Brunswick School District, with 810 students on its rolls from grades K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 405 students per school, that is 100% bigger than typical.

Blanquita B. Valenti Community School is one of 13 schools operated by New Brunswick School District, a district that caters to 8,337 students overall.

Demographically, Blanquita B. Valenti Community School lists that nearly all students (96%) are Hispanic; the rest consists of 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 24% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 73 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 11.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 94% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Middlesex County's rate of about 42%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Blanquita B. Valenti Community School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 14.9%, the actual is 23.7%, a residual of +8.8 points.

Across the wider county, Middlesex County reports that the typical household earns roughly $111,549 per year, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Blanquita B. Valenti Community School is one of 214 public schools in Middlesex County (combined enrollment of about 129,255 students).

The closest other public school is New Brunswick Adult High School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Blanquita B. Valenti Community School comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 17.8%.

Blanquita B. Valenti Community School operates from a metropolitan location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Blanquita B. Valenti Community School has grew 19%, going from 682 students in 2018 to 810 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 11.2:1 in 2025.

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