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Hamilton North - Nottingham
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 25 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 11 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 down about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 18% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 35% 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.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Hamilton North - Nottingham
Hamilton North - Nottingham is a four-year high school of moderately sized scale in HAMILTON, New Jersey, one of the schools within Hamilton Township Public School District, teacheing 1,147 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 23% bigger than the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 929 students.
Hamilton Township Public School District runs 23 schools in total, collectively educating 12,355 students. Hamilton North - Nottingham is one of those campuses.
Demographically, Hamilton North - Nottingham lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 26% Black, 20% White, 3% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Mercer County as a whole is about 23% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the resource side, On paper, Hamilton North - Nottingham has 89 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 57% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Mercer County's rate of about 48%.
With demographic context factored in, Hamilton North - Nottingham is in the bottom 10% of New Jersey public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 35.0%; Hamilton North - Nottingham posts 18.5%, -16.5 points below that line.
In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Mercer County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $100,645 per year, about 45% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Mercer County's 110 public schools (combined enrollment of about 58,647 students), Hamilton North - Nottingham is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Klockner Elementary School, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Hamilton North - Nottingham comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 23.3%.
The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.
Five-year trend. Hamilton North - Nottingham's enrollment has edged down 9% since 2018, when it stood at 1,258 (now 1,147). Hispanic enrollment moved from 30% to 48% across the same window.
In the discussion threads here, the feed for Hamilton North - Nottingham typically covers school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.
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