Cedar Hill School

Cedar Hill School is an elementary school of mid-tier scale in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, run under Bernards Township School District, hosting 568 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 40% larger than the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 405 students.

Bernards Township School District comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 4,645 students; Cedar Hill School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Cedar Hill School records that the largest single group is White at 51%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 33% Asian, 8% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. An estimated 4% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is south of Somerset County's rate of about 28%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Cedar Hill School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.2%, the actual is 75.4%, a residual of +11.2 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Somerset County indicate median household income runs about $140,374, 58% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Somerset County runs 84 public schools (combined enrollment of about 51,276 students), of which Cedar Hill School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Ridge High School, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Cedar Hill School at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 66.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Cedar Hill School has declined 4%, going from 594 students in 2018 to 568 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 63% to 51%. Class-load math has rose: from 9.7:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 in 2025.

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