Bridgewater-Raritan High School

Bridgewater-Raritan High School operates as a substantial senior high in Bridgewater, New Jersey, part of Bridgewater-Raritan Regional School District. Current enrollment sits at 2,673 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 188% bigger than the state mean of about 929.

Bridgewater-Raritan Regional School District runs 11 schools in total, collectively educating 7,774 students. Bridgewater-Raritan High School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Bridgewater-Raritan High School reports that the largest single group is White at 41%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 31% Asian, 20% Hispanic, 4% Black, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 52%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 205 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.0:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 15% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Somerset County (around 28%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Bridgewater-Raritan High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.9%, the actual is 58.1%, a residual of +0.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Somerset County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $140,374 per year, roughly 58% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Somerset County's 84 public schools (combined enrollment of about 51,276 students), Bridgewater-Raritan High School is one campus in the mix.

Van Holten Primary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Bridgewater-Raritan High School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Bridgewater-Raritan High School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 54.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 6%: 2,849 students in 2018 compared to 2,673 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 57% to 41% over that span.

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