Eisenhower Intermediate School

As a reasonably sized middle-grades school in Bridgewater, New Jersey, Eisenhower Intermediate School teaches 625 students from grades 5 through 6, one of the schools within Bridgewater-Raritan Regional School District.

Across the 11 schools in Bridgewater-Raritan Regional School District (7,774 students total), Eisenhower Intermediate School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Eisenhower Intermediate School logs that the largest single group is White at 37%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 31% Asian, 20% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 5% Black. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 52%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 62 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 10.9:1 average. An estimated 20% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Somerset County runs at roughly 28%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Eisenhower Intermediate School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.1%, the actual is 56.2%, a residual of +1.0 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Somerset County put the typical household earns roughly $140,374 per year, 58% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Somerset County's 84 public schools (combined enrollment of about 51,276 students), Eisenhower Intermediate School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Van Holten Primary School, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Eisenhower Intermediate School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Eisenhower Intermediate School at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 69.0%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Eisenhower Intermediate School has declined 19%, going from 770 students in 2018 to 625 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 44% to 37% over that span.

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