Central Jersey College Prep Charter School

Located at 101 Mettlers Road, in Somerset, New Jersey, Central Jersey College Prep Charter School is a mid-tier unified-grade school that works with 1,396 students (grades K through 12), part of Central Jersey College Prep Charter School. Enrollment runs roughly 49% above the state mean of about 934.

Central Jersey College Prep Charter School is a school of Central Jersey College Prep Charter School, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Central Jersey College Prep Charter School shows that the largest single group is Asian at 47%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 23% Black, 18% Hispanic, 9% White, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Somerset County as a whole is about 20% Asian, so the school skews visibly more Asian than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Central Jersey College Prep Charter School logs 117 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Central Jersey College Prep Charter School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 33% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Central Jersey College Prep Charter School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.0%, the actual is 60.3%, a residual of +12.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Somerset County shows the typical household earns roughly $140,374 per year, 58% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Somerset County runs 84 public schools (combined enrollment of about 51,276 students), of which Central Jersey College Prep Charter School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Franklin High School, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Central Jersey College Prep Charter School. On composite proficiency, Central Jersey College Prep Charter School comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 42.3%.

Central Jersey College Prep Charter School operates from a low-density location. As a public charter, Central Jersey College Prep Charter School runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Central Jersey College Prep Charter School has edged up 133%, going from 598 students in 2018 to 1,396 in 2025.

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