Cadwalader Elementary School

Cadwalader Elementary School is one of the modestly sized elementary schools in TRENTON, New Jersey, overseen by Trenton Public School District, with 200 students on its rolls from grades K through 3. Compared to the state average of about 405 students per school, that is 51% smaller than typical.

Within Trenton Public School District, which oversees 25 schools and 13,549 students, Cadwalader Elementary School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Cadwalader Elementary School logs that the largest single group is Black, at 61% of enrollment. The remainder is composed of 35% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Cadwalader Elementary School has 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting Cadwalader Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 80% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Mercer County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Cadwalader Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 22.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 8.8%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Mercer County) reports that median household income runs about $100,645, 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Mercer County's 110 public schools (combined enrollment of about 58,647 students), Cadwalader Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Benjamin C Gregory Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Cadwalader Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Cadwalader Elementary School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 10.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

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