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Grandview Elementary School
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 48 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 10 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 44% 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 Grandview Elementary School
Grandview Elementary School is one of the reasonably sized K-5 schools in PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, one of the schools within Piscataway Township School District, with 579 students on its rolls from grades K through 3. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 405 students each, so Grandview Elementary School sits 43% bigger than that benchmark.
Grandview Elementary School is one of 11 schools operated by Piscataway Township School District, a district that enrolls 7,289 students overall.
Looking at the student body, Grandview Elementary School reports that 32% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 31% Hispanic, 22% Black, 9% White, 4% multiracial.
On the resource side, The school currently runs with 91 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 6.4:1. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 44% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Grandview Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.3%, the actual is 43.9%, a residual of +1.5 points.
In the broader community, Middlesex County reports that median household income runs about $111,549, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Middlesex County runs 214 public schools (combined enrollment of about 129,255 students), of which Grandview Elementary School is one.
Nearest neighbor: Theodore Schor Middle School, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Grandview Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 37.9%.
The school occupies a suburban site.
Over the past 7-year window. Grandview Elementary School's enrollment has declined 22% since 2018, when it stood at 744 (now 579). The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 18% to 31% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 6.4:1 in 2025.
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