Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary School

Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary School is a reasonably sized primary school in PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, overseen by Piscataway Township School District. The school serves 513 students in grades K through 3. Compared to the state average of about 405 students per school, that is 27% larger than typical.

Piscataway Township School District comprises 11 schools with combined enrollment of 7,289 students; Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary School lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 41%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 29% Asian, 15% Black, 10% White, 4% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary School has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. Roughly 53% of students at Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Middlesex County (around 42%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.9%, the actual is 39.5%, a residual of +2.6 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Middlesex County) records that median household earnings sit near $111,549, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary School is one of 214 public schools in Middlesex County (combined enrollment of about 129,255 students).

The closest other public school is Theodore Schor Middle School, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 43.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary School's enrollment has contracted 3% since 2018, when it stood at 530 (now 513). Hispanic enrollment moved from 26% to 41% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 today.

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