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Enrollment
568
Middle
DISTRICT 561 · STATE 578
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SOUTH PLAINFIELD SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341536005999
Grant Elementary School
305 CROMWELL PLACE, SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ 07080 · (908) 754-4620 · Middlesex County
GRADES 05–06MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL568 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 21% of New Jersey public middle schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New Jersey public middle schools
Student : Teacher
11.0:1
52 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.9:1 · STATE 10.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
35%
201 students
DISTRICT 31% · STATE 41%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 5 | 297 | 52% |
| Grade 6 | 271 | 48% |
Student demographics
73%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 73% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within South Plainfield School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
45.7%
NJ avg 53.1% . -1.4pp since 2023
Math
39.3%
NJ avg 41.6% . +5.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 46 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 39 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 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 45.7% | 39.3% |
| 2023-24 | 47.1% | 34.2% |
% Meeting or Exceeding Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: NJSLA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
37.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
46.8%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 37% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 47% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Grant Elementary School
Grant Elementary School's state test result (37.2% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grant Elementary School this school | 568 | 35.4% | 37.2% |
| South Plainfield Middle School SOUTH PLAINFIELD | 553 | 37.1% | 43.4% |
| Lawrence Middle School LAWRENCEVILLE | 584 | 37.7% | 48.7% |
| Lawrence Intermediate School LAWRENCEVILLE | 775 | 38.2% | 40.7% |
| Colonia Middle School COLONIA | 628 | 30.7% | 39.4% |
| John Hill School BOONTON | 556 | 40.1% | 51.6% |
Matched among New Jersey middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Grant Elementary School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Middlesex County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 37.2% | #285 of 433 | #23 of 39 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 39.3% | #235 of 437 ▲ 20 | #18 of 39 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 45.7% | #312 of 437 ▼ 32 | #26 of 39 ▼ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 568 | #206 of 445 | #25 of 40 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.0:1 | #230 of 417 | #20 of 39 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 73.3% | #12 of 419 | #6 of 40 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 35.4% | #206 of 436 | #25 of 40 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +9.0% | #59 of 122 | #7 of 14 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
568
+124 (+28%) vs 2020
+1929% since 1990-91, when it was 28
Student : Teacher
11.0:1
was 8.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 568 | 51.5 | 11.0:1 | 35% (201) |
| 2023-24 | 543 | 50.5 | 10.7:1 | 30% (161) |
| 2022-23 | 530 | 50 | 10.6:1 | 30% (157) |
| 2020-21 | 444 | 50 | 8.9:1 | 22% (96) |
| 2017-18 | 521 | 45.2 | 11.5:1 | 24% (126) |
| 2015-16 | 553 | 45 | 12.3:1 | 27% (151) |
| 2010-11 | 542 | 38 | 14.3:1 | 25% (133) |
| 2000-01 | 375 | 3 | 125.0:1 | 12% (45) |
| 1990-91 | 28 | 5 | 5.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Grant Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 9% (521 to 568); teachers up 14% (45.2 to 51.5).
About Grant Elementary School
Federal records list Grant Elementary School as a middle school in SOUTH PLAINFIELD, New Jersey. Its enrollment is 568 students, spread over grades 5 through 6.
South Plainfield School District is the local district for Grant Elementary School. It runs 9 schools with 3,767 students.
White students account for 35% of enrollment at Grant Elementary School, more than any other group. Next come 31% Hispanic, 18% Asian, 11% Black, and 4% multiracial. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 73%.
Staffing at Grant Elementary School comes to 51.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 11.0:1. That is in line with the 10.9:1 average for middle schools in New Jersey. Grant Elementary School counts 35% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
On the allk12 Grade, Grant Elementary School lands at C-, ahead of 21% of New Jersey public middle schools.
A school with Grant Elementary School's lunch-eligibility share in New Jersey is predicted to score 46.8%. Grant Elementary School scores 37.2%, 9.6 points below that line.
In Middlesex County, where the school is located, median household income comes to about $111,549, about 46% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 6%. The county has 214 public schools and about 129,255 students.
South Plainfield High School sits about 0.1 miles from Grant Elementary School. Grant Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Among 8 nearby schools that report test results, Grant Elementary School ranks 6th on proficiency.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 568, compared with 444 in 2020-21. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio increased to 11.0:1, from 8.9:1.
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Middlesex County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
871,290
Census ACS
Median income
$111,549
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
46%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
214
129,255 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in South Plainfield School District
- South Plainfield High SchoolHigh · 1,044 students
- South Plainfield Middle SchoolMiddle · 553 students
- Roosevelt Elementary SchoolElementary · 472 students
- John E. Riley Elementary SchoolElementary · 367 students
- Franklin Elementary SchoolElementary · 270 students
- John F Kennedy Elementary SchoolElementary · 256 students
Other schools in SOUTH PLAINFIELD
- South Plainfield High SchoolHigh · 1,044 students
- South Plainfield Middle SchoolMiddle · 553 students
- Roosevelt Elementary SchoolElementary · 472 students
- John E. Riley Elementary SchoolElementary · 367 students
- Franklin Elementary SchoolElementary · 270 students
- John F Kennedy Elementary SchoolElementary · 256 students
Other Grant Elementary schools
34 other US public schools in 13 states are named Grant Elementary. Grant Elementary School is the 3rd largest of the 35.
- Grant Elementary SchoolDUMONT, NJ · 432 students
- Grant Elementary SchoolRIDGEFIELD PARK, NJ · 228 students
- Grant ElementaryLong Beach, CA · 951 students
- Grant ElementaryRedding, CA · 600 students
- Grant ElementarySanta Monica, CA · 562 students
Nearby schools
- South Plainfield High School0.1 mi · 1,044
- South Plainfield Middle School0.3 mi · 553
- Riley Preschool Annex0.4 mi · 145
- John E. Riley Elementary School0.5 mi · 367
- John F Kennedy Elementary School0.8 mi · 256
- Cedarbrook Elementary School1.0 mi · 671
Frequently asked questions
About Grant Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Grant Elementary School?
Grant Elementary School enrolls approximately 568 students in grades 05-06.
Is Grant Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Grant Elementary School is a middle school covering grades 05-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Grant Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Grant Elementary School is approximately 11.0:1 (52 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Grant Elementary School?
Student demographics at Grant Elementary School are roughly 35% White, 31% Hispanic, 11% Black, 18% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is Grant Elementary School public or private?
Grant Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by South Plainfield School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.