Bound Brook High School

Set in Bound Brook, New Jersey, Bound Brook High School is an intimate secondary school, operated by Bound Brook School District. It works with 579 students across grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 929 students per school, that is 38% leaner than typical.

Bound Brook School District comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,917 students; Bound Brook High School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Bound Brook High School records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 80% of enrollment. Other groups include 9% Black, 9% White. By comparison, Somerset County as a whole is about 18% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Bound Brook High School reports 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.7:1 average. An estimated 84% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Somerset County's rate of about 28%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Bound Brook High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 20.4%; this one delivers 19.9%.

In the broader community, census data for Somerset County shows the typical household earns roughly $140,374 per year, about 58% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Somerset County runs 84 public schools (combined enrollment of about 51,276 students), of which Bound Brook High School is one.

Lafayette Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Bound Brook High School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 34.5%.

Bound Brook High School operates from a bedroom-community location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 4%: 601 students in 2018 compared to 579 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 65% to 80% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 10.0:1 today.

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