Ethel McKnight Elementary School

Set in EAST WINDSOR, New Jersey, Ethel McKnight Elementary School is a mid-tier elementary school, operated by East Windsor Regional School District. It works with 530 students across grades K through 2. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 405 students each, so Ethel McKnight Elementary School sits 31% above that benchmark.

Within East Windsor Regional School District, which oversees 6 schools and 5,006 students, Ethel McKnight Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Ethel McKnight Elementary School logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school reports 22% White, 16% Asian, 5% Black, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Mercer County as a whole is about 23% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.3:1. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 47% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Mercer County indicate the typical household earns roughly $100,645 per year, roughly 45% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Ethel McKnight Elementary School is one of 110 public schools in Mercer County (combined enrollment of about 58,647 students).

Nearest neighbor: Perry L. Drew Elementary School, around 0.9 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Ethel McKnight Elementary School operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 8%: 493 students in 2018 compared to 530 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 44% to 52%. Class-load math has tightened: from 12.0:1 in 2018 to 9.3:1 in 2025.

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