Dr. Crosby Copeland Jr Elementary

As a mid-tier elementary campus in TRENTON, New Jersey, Dr. Crosby Copeland Jr Elementary hosts 353 students from grades K through 3, one of the schools within Trenton Public School District.

Trenton Public School District runs 25 schools in total, collectively educating 13,549 students. Dr. Crosby Copeland Jr Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Dr. Crosby Copeland Jr Elementary records that the most-represented group is Black (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 41% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Mercer County as a whole is about 19% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. An estimated 84% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Mercer County's rate of about 48%.

With demographic context factored in, Dr. Crosby Copeland Jr Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 20.1%; this one delivers 8.1%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Mercer County) reports that median household income runs about $100,645, roughly 45% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Mercer County runs 110 public schools (combined enrollment of about 58,647 students), of which Dr. Crosby Copeland Jr Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Paul Robeson Charter School for the Humanities, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Dr. Crosby Copeland Jr Elementary. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Dr. Crosby Copeland Jr Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 19.0%.

Dr. Crosby Copeland Jr Elementary operates from a metropolitan location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 8%: 382 students in 2018 compared to 353 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share edged up from 42% to 54%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 today.

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