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What's the one class at Hamilton East - Steinert every student should take?
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Enrollment
1,437
High
DISTRICT 1,331 · STATE 929
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HAMILTON TOWNSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340654003090
Hamilton East - Steinert
2900 KLOCKNER ROAD, HAMILTON, NJ 08690 · (609) 631-4150 · Mercer County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL1,437 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 17% of New Jersey public high schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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 high schools
Student : Teacher
13.8:1
104 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 12.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
37%
526 students
DISTRICT 54% · STATE 41%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 390 | 27% |
| Grade 10 | 350 | 24% |
| Grade 11 | 357 | 25% |
| Grade 12 | 340 | 24% |
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · 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
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
33.5%
NJ avg 53.1% . -5.9pp since 2023
Math
23.5%
NJ avg 41.6% . -0.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 24 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 33.5% | 23.5% |
| 2023-24 | 39.4% | 23.7% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NJ schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
26.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
46.1%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-19.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 26% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 46% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Hamilton East - Steinert
Hamilton East - Steinert's state test result (26.5% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hamilton East - Steinert this school | 1,437 | 36.6% | 26.5% |
| Cherry Hill High School West CHERRY HILL | 1,287 | 34.3% | 32.5% |
| Jackson Memorial High School Jackson | 1,577 | 33.2% | 30.0% |
| Matawan Regional High School ABERDEEN | 1,038 | 34.0% | 38.0% |
| Toms River High School South TOMS RIVER | 1,463 | 41.5% | 29.4% |
| Ocean Township High School OAKHURST | 925 | 35.4% | 36.1% |
Matched among New Jersey high 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 Hamilton East - Steinert ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Mercer County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 26.5% | #279 of 397 | #11 of 17 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 23.5% | #233 of 400 ▼ 1 | #7 of 18 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 33.5% | #291 of 395 ▲ 17 | #11 of 16 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,437 | #84 of 442 | #5 of 23 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.8:1 | #303 of 388 | #11 of 16 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.1% | #113 of 389 | #7 of 16 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 36.6% | #202 of 405 | #14 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +14.5% | #60 of 173 | #4 of 8 |
Ranked against other public high 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
1,437
+45 (+3%) vs 2020
+19% since 1990-91, when it was 1,209
Student : Teacher
13.8:1
was 14.1:1
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 | 1,437 | 104.3 | 13.8:1 | 37% (526) |
| 2023-24 | 1,454 | 107.1 | 13.6:1 | 30% (438) |
| 2022-23 | 1,427 | 106.6 | 13.4:1 | 26% (368) |
| 2020-21 | 1,392 | 99 | 14.1:1 | 22% (305) |
| 2017-18 | 1,255 | 95.4 | 13.2:1 | 14% (173) |
| 2015-16 | 1,272 | 99 | 12.8:1 | 13% (167) |
| 2010-11 | 1,532 | 92 | 16.6:1 | 7% (107) |
| 2000-01 | 1,501 | 101 | 14.9:1 | 3% (50) |
| 1990-91 | 1,209 | 87 | 13.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hamilton East - Steinert.
Since 2017-18: students up 15% (1,255 to 1,437); teachers up 9% (95.4 to 104.3).
About Hamilton East - Steinert
Hamilton East - Steinert serves students in HAMILTON, New Jersey, as a high-enrollment high school. The school offers grades 9 through 12 and enrolls 1,437 students. Across high schools in New Jersey, the average enrollment is about 929.
Hamilton Township Public School District counts 23 schools and 12,355 students, including Hamilton East - Steinert.
More than half of enrollment at Hamilton East - Steinert is White: 51%. Next come 30% Hispanic, 11% Black, 4% Asian, and 3% multiracial. The diversity index for Hamilton East - Steinert is 63%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
There are about 13.8 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at Hamilton East - Steinert, which has 104.3. High schools in New Jersey have an average ratio of 12.7:1. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 37%. That rate is below the 48% average among public schools in Mercer County.
Hamilton East - Steinert holds a C- allk12 Grade, placing it above 17% of New Jersey public high schools.
In New Jersey, Hamilton East - Steinert is one of the bottom 10% of schools on BeatsExpectations, with an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 26.5% compared with a predicted 46.1%.
In the surrounding county, Mercer County, the median household earns about $100,645 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 45%, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. Mercer County has 110 public schools with about 58,647 students, including Hamilton East - Steinert.
About 0.2 miles separate Hamilton East - Steinert from the closest public school, Emily C. Reynolds Middle School. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Hamilton East - Steinert ranks 9th of 9 on average proficiency.
Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school grew from 1,392 students in 2020-21 to 1,437 in 2024-25.
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Mercer County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
385,864
Census ACS
Median income
$100,645
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
45%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
110
58,647 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Hamilton Township Public School District
- Hamilton West-WatsonHigh · 1,408 students
- Hamilton North - NottinghamHigh · 1,147 students
- Albert E Grice Middle SchoolMiddle · 991 students
- Emily C. Reynolds Middle SchoolMiddle · 966 students
- Richard C Crockett Middle SchoolMiddle · 834 students
- George E. Wilson Elementary SchoolElementary · 545 students
Other schools in HAMILTON
- Hamilton West-WatsonHigh · 1,408 students
- Hamilton North - NottinghamHigh · 1,147 students
- Albert E Grice Middle SchoolMiddle · 991 students
- Emily C. Reynolds Middle SchoolMiddle · 966 students
- Richard C Crockett Middle SchoolMiddle · 834 students
- George E. Wilson Elementary SchoolElementary · 545 students
Nearby schools
- Emily C. Reynolds Middle School0.2 mi · 966
- Alexander Elementary School0.4 mi · 302
- Langtree Elementary School1.0 mi · 339
- Richard C Crockett Middle School1.1 mi · 834
- Sayen Elementary School1.1 mi · 254
- Albert E Grice Middle School1.8 mi · 991
Frequently asked questions
About Hamilton East - SteinertWhat is the total enrollment at Hamilton East - Steinert?
Hamilton East - Steinert enrolls approximately 1,437 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does Hamilton East - Steinert serve?
Hamilton East - Steinert serves grades 09-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Hamilton East - Steinert?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Hamilton East - Steinert is approximately 13.8:1 (104 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Hamilton East - Steinert?
At Hamilton East - Steinert, the student body is approximately 51% White, 30% Hispanic, 11% Black, 4% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is Hamilton East - Steinert public or private?
Hamilton East - Steinert is a public K-12 school, overseen by Hamilton Township Public School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.