Dutch Neck Elementary School

Located at 392 VILLAGE ROAD EAST, in West Windsor, New Jersey, Dutch Neck Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school that serves 557 students (grades K through 3), one of the schools within West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 405 students each, so Dutch Neck Elementary School sits 38% bigger than that benchmark.

West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District comprises 10 schools with combined enrollment of 8,831 students; Dutch Neck Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Dutch Neck Elementary School logs that 63% of the student body identifies as Asian; the rest breaks down as 13% White, 10% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 6% Black. The wider county runs roughly 12% Asian, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Asian than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.2:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 9% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Mercer County (around 48%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Dutch Neck Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 61.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 64.2%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Mercer County shows median household earnings sit near $100,645, 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Mercer County runs 110 public schools (combined enrollment of about 58,647 students), of which Dutch Neck Elementary School is one.

Village Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Dutch Neck Elementary School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Dutch Neck Elementary School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 66.1%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Dutch Neck Elementary School has decreased 19%, going from 687 students in 2018 to 557 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment shrank from 74% to 63% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 11.2:1 in 2025.

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