Grace A Dunn Middle School

Grace A Dunn Middle School, a reasonably sized junior high in TRENTON, New Jersey, operated by Trenton Public School District, enrolls 703 students, covering grades 7 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 22% bigger than the state mean of about 578.

Across the 25 schools in Trenton Public School District (13,549 students total), Grace A Dunn Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Grace A Dunn Middle School lists that 86% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 12% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.2:1. The state averages around 10.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 77% of students at Grace A Dunn Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Mercer County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Grace A Dunn Middle School is in the bottom 10% of New Jersey public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 24.0%; Grace A Dunn Middle School posts 7.0%, -16.9 points below that line.

In the broader community, census data for Mercer County shows the typical household earns roughly $100,645 per year, about 45% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Mercer County's 110 public schools (combined enrollment of about 58,647 students), Grace A Dunn Middle School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Lalor Elementary School, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Grace A Dunn Middle School ranks 9th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 21.9%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Grace A Dunn Middle School's enrollment has decreased 23% since 2018, when it stood at 909 (now 703). Hispanic enrollment moved from 70% to 86% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 today.

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