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Enrollment
2,673
High
DISTRICT 707 · STATE 929
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BRIDGEWATER-RARITAN REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340228000173
Bridgewater-Raritan High School
600 Garretson Road, Bridgewater, NJ 08807 · (908) 231-8660 · Somerset County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL2,673 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 82% of New Jersey public high schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New Jersey public high schools
Student : Teacher
13.0:1
205 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.6:1 · STATE 12.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
15%
404 students
DISTRICT 16% · STATE 41%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 602 | 23% |
| Grade 10 | 696 | 26% |
| Grade 11 | 665 | 25% |
| Grade 12 | 710 | 27% |
Student demographics
69%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · 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
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Bridgewater-Raritan Regional School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
70.5%
NJ avg 53.1% . -8.8pp since 2023
Math
47.0%
NJ avg 41.6% . -5.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 71 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 47 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 9 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 5 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 70.5% | 47.0% |
| 2023-24 | 79.3% | 52.0% |
% 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
58.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.9%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 58% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 58% 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 Bridgewater-Raritan High School
Bridgewater-Raritan High School's state test result (58.1% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bridgewater-Raritan High School this school | 2,673 | 15.1% | 58.1% |
| Hillsborough High School Hillsborough | 2,377 | 15.7% | 61.2% |
| East Brunswick High School EAST BRUNSWICK | 2,124 | 24.2% | 37.6% |
| Princeton High School PRINCETON | 1,518 | 13.8% | 57.4% |
| Cherry Hill High School East CHERRY HILL | 2,120 | 18.4% | 57.5% |
| Monroe Township High School MONROE TOWNSHIP | 2,583 | 13.9% | 55.4% |
Matched among New Jersey high 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 Bridgewater-Raritan High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Somerset County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 58.1% | #75 of 397 | #6 of 12 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 47.0% | #99 of 400 ▼ 7 | #5 of 12 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 70.5% | #75 of 395 ▲ 6 | #4 of 12 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 2,673 | #8 of 442 | #1 of 14 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.0:1 | #247 of 388 | #10 of 12 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.1% | #39 of 389 | #2 of 12 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 15.1% | #313 of 405 | #9 of 12 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.2% | #121 of 200 | #5 of 8 |
Ranked against other public high 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
2,673
-74 (-3%) vs 2020
+34% since 2000-01, when it was 2,002
Student : Teacher
13.0:1
was 12.5:1
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 | 2,673 | 205 | 13.0:1 | 15% (404) |
| 2023-24 | 2,745 | 212.4 | 12.9:1 | 12% (332) |
| 2022-23 | 2,711 | 224.7 | 12.1:1 | 11% (286) |
| 2020-21 | 2,747 | 220 | 12.5:1 | 11% (309) |
| 2017-18 | 2,849 | 230.7 | 12.3:1 | 9% (253) |
| 2015-16 | 2,902 | 231 | 12.6:1 | 8% (242) |
| 2010-11 | 2,914 | 224 | 13.0:1 | 7% (194) |
| 2000-01 | 2,002 | 144 | 13.9:1 | 4% (78) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Bridgewater-Raritan High School.
Since 2017-18: students down 6% (2,849 to 2,673); teachers down 11% (230.7 to 205).
About Bridgewater-Raritan High School
Located in Bridgewater, New Jersey, Bridgewater-Raritan High School is a high-enrollment high school. It teaches 2,673 students in grades 9 through 12. High schools in New Jersey have about 929 students on average; enrollment here is 188% higher.
Bridgewater-Raritan High School falls under Bridgewater-Raritan Regional School District, which has 11 schools enrolling 7,774 students.
No group is above 50% at Bridgewater-Raritan High School; the largest is White, at 41%. After that, the student body is 31% Asian, 20% Hispanic, 4% Black, and 3% multiracial. Among all residents of Somerset County, the White share is about 52%. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 69%.
Its staff includes 205 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 13.0 students per teacher. The 12.7:1 average for high schools in New Jersey is close to this figure. Roughly 15% of students at Bridgewater-Raritan High School can receive free or reduced-price lunch. Among public schools in Somerset County, the average eligibility rate is 28%.
Among New Jersey public high schools, Bridgewater-Raritan High School outscored 82%, which works out to an A- on the allk12 Grade.
Bridgewater-Raritan High School's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 58.1% is within a point of the 57.9% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
Somerset County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $140,374 a year, roughly 58% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Somerset County number 84, with about 51,276 students.
A public school about 1.2 miles away, Van Holten Primary School, is the closest to Bridgewater-Raritan High School. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Bridgewater-Raritan High School. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Bridgewater-Raritan High School is 4th of 9 on proficiency.
Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Large: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment decreased by 3% across 4 years, from 2,747 in 2020-21 to 2,673 in 2024-25.
People can post here about special education services, counseling, and support programs and other school topics. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Somerset County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
349,846
Census ACS
Median income
$140,374
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
58%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
84
51,276 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Bridgewater-Raritan Regional School District
- Bridgewater-Raritan Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,220 students
- Eisenhower Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 625 students
- Hillside Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 568 students
- Hamilton Primary SchoolElementary · 462 students
- Adamsville Primary SchoolElementary · 461 students
- John F. Kennedy Primary SchoolElementary · 431 students
Other schools in Bridgewater
- Bridgewater-Raritan Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,220 students
- Eisenhower Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 625 students
- Hillside Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 568 students
- Adamsville Primary SchoolElementary · 461 students
- Crim Primary SchoolElementary · 396 students
- Milltown Primary SchoolElementary · 348 students
Nearby schools
- Van Holten Primary School1.2 mi · 311
- Somerville High School1.5 mi · 1,072
- Somerset County Vocational Technical High School1.6 mi · 332
- Eisenhower Intermediate School1.7 mi · 625
- Somerville Middle School1.8 mi · 339
- John F. Kennedy Primary School1.8 mi · 431
Frequently asked questions
About Bridgewater-Raritan High SchoolHow many students attend Bridgewater-Raritan High School?
Bridgewater-Raritan High School enrolls approximately 2,673 students in grades 09-12.
Is Bridgewater-Raritan High School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Bridgewater-Raritan High School is a high school covering grades 09-12.
How many teachers does Bridgewater-Raritan High School have?
Bridgewater-Raritan High School employs 205 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.0:1.
What is the student diversity at Bridgewater-Raritan High School?
Student demographics at Bridgewater-Raritan High School are roughly 41% White, 20% Hispanic, 4% Black, 31% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees Bridgewater-Raritan High School?
Bridgewater-Raritan High School is overseen by Bridgewater-Raritan Regional School District in Somerset County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.