Chittick Elementary School
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Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 53 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 5 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Chittick Elementary School
Chittick Elementary School is one of the close-knit K-5 schools in EAST BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, run under East Brunswick Township School District, with 338 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 4.
Chittick Elementary School is one of 11 schools operated by East Brunswick Township School District, a district that serves 8,096 students overall.
Looking at the student body, Chittick Elementary School records that the most-represented group is White (38%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 30% Hispanic, 23% Asian, 5% Black, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Middlesex County as a whole.
On the income-and-resources front, Chittick Elementary School logs 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. About 38% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Chittick Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 45.1%; this one delivers 55.1%.
In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Middlesex County put the typical household earns roughly $111,549 per year, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Middlesex County runs 214 public schools (combined enrollment of about 129,255 students), of which Chittick Elementary School is one.
The closest other public school is East Brunswick Magnet School, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Chittick Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Chittick Elementary School comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 41.9%.
Chittick Elementary School operates from a residential location.
Trend over the last 7 years. Chittick Elementary School's enrollment has declined 23% since 2018, when it stood at 437 (now 338). Hispanic enrollment moved from 11% to 30% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 10.0:1 in 2018 to 8.4:1 today.
On the community side, the feed for Chittick Elementary School typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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