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Grace N. Rogers Elementary School
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Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 36 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New Jersey's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Grace N. Rogers Elementary School
Grace N. Rogers Elementary School is one of the medium-sized elementary-level communitys in HIGHTSTOWN, New Jersey, operated by East Windsor Regional School District, with 591 students on its rolls from grades 3 through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 46% larger than the state mean of about 405.
Grace N. Rogers Elementary School is one of 6 schools operated by East Windsor Regional School District, a district that works with 5,006 students overall.
In terms of who attends, Grace N. Rogers Elementary School lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 26% White, 14% Asian, 7% Black, 4% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Grace N. Rogers Elementary School has 60 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. Around 44% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
With demographic context factored in, Grace N. Rogers Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.2%, the actual is 34.6%, a residual of -7.6 points.
Zooming out to the county, Mercer County reports that median household income runs about $100,645, roughly 45% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Mercer County runs 110 public schools (combined enrollment of about 58,647 students), of which Grace N. Rogers Elementary School is one.
The closest other public school is Walter C. Black Elementary School, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Grace N. Rogers Elementary School at 6th of 7; the average score across the group is 53.9%.
Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 594 students in 2018 compared to 591 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 44% to 48% over that span.
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Mercer County at a glance
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