Francis A. Desmares Elementary School

Francis A. Desmares Elementary School is one of the mid-sized K-5 schools in FLEMINGTON, New Jersey, run under Flemington-Raritan Regional School District, with 421 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 4.

Francis A. Desmares Elementary School is one of 6 schools operated by Flemington-Raritan Regional School District, a district that teaches 3,224 students overall.

On demographics, Francis A. Desmares Elementary School logs that 45% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 40% White, 10% Asian, 4% Black. By comparison, Hunterdon County as a whole is about 9% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Francis A. Desmares Elementary School has 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.9:1. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 45% of students at Francis A. Desmares Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Hunterdon County (around 16%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Francis A. Desmares Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 41.5%; this one delivers 50.7%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Hunterdon County indicate median household earnings sit near $141,715, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. Francis A. Desmares Elementary School is one of 55 public schools in Hunterdon County (combined enrollment of about 18,056 students).

Nearest neighbor: Hunterdon Polytech Bartles Corner Campus, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Francis A. Desmares Elementary School comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 54.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Francis A. Desmares Elementary School has changed only slightly, going from 426 students in 2018 to 421 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 59% to 40% over that span.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.