Ewing High School

Ewing High School is one of the moderately sized high schools in EWING, New Jersey, one of the schools within Ewing Township School District, with 1,118 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 929 students per school, that is 20% above typical.

Ewing Township School District comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 3,576 students; Ewing High School is among them.

On demographics, Ewing High School logs that the largest single group is Black at 47%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 26% Hispanic, 18% White, 4% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, Mercer County as a whole is about 19% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 90 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.4:1. The state averages about 12.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 57% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Mercer County (around 48%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Ewing High School is in the bottom 10% of New Jersey public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 35.2%; Ewing High School posts 19.4%, -15.8 points below that line.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Mercer County put median household earnings sit near $100,645, about 45% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Mercer County's 110 public schools (combined enrollment of about 58,647 students), Ewing High School is one campus in the mix.

Trenton STEM-to-Civics Charter School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Ewing High School at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 12.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Ewing High School's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 1,118 (now 1,118). White enrollment moved from 29% to 18% across the same window.

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