Bragg Elementary School

Set in Chester, New Jersey, Bragg Elementary School is a tight-knit primary school, one of the schools within Chester Township School District. It teaches 297 students across grades 3 through 5. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 405 students each, so Bragg Elementary School sits 27% leaner than that benchmark.

Chester Township School District comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,005 students; Bragg Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Bragg Elementary School records that 70% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 18% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 7.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting Bragg Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 5% of students at Bragg Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Morris County runs at roughly 19%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Bragg Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.6%, the actual is 64.7%, a residual of +1.1 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Morris County indicate median household income runs about $137,326, roughly 58% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. Across Morris County's 156 public schools (combined enrollment of about 72,239 students), Bragg Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Dickerson Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Bragg Elementary School comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 64.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 18%: 363 students in 2018 compared to 297 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 82% to 70%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 8.8:1 in 2018 to 7.7:1 in 2025.

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