Francis Lore Elementary School

Francis Lore Elementary School is one of the mid-sized K-5 schools in EWING, New Jersey, operated by Ewing Township School District, with 505 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 405 students per school, that is 25% larger than typical.

Ewing Township School District runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 3,576 students. Francis Lore Elementary School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Francis Lore Elementary School records that the most-represented group is Black (36%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 26% Hispanic, 23% White, 8% multiracial, 7% Asian. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 11.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 49% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Francis Lore Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.3%, the actual is 36.2%, a residual of -3.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Mercer County put 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. Francis Lore Elementary School is one of 110 public schools in Mercer County (combined enrollment of about 58,647 students).

The closest other public school is Bear Tavern Elementary School, roughly 1.9 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Francis Lore Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Francis Lore Elementary School comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 49.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 13%: 580 students in 2018 compared to 505 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 36% to 23%.

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