Hamilton Primary School

Hamilton Primary School is one of the average-sized elementary campuss in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, part of Bridgewater-Raritan Regional School District, with 462 students on its rolls from grades K through 4.

Bridgewater-Raritan Regional School District runs 11 schools in total, collectively educating 7,774 students. Hamilton Primary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Hamilton Primary School shows that the largest single group is White at 42%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 37% Asian, 12% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 52% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Hamilton Primary School has 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 5% of students at Hamilton Primary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Somerset County's rate of about 28%.

With demographic context factored in, Hamilton Primary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.5%, the actual is 70.4%, a residual of +6.8 points.

Across the wider county, Somerset County reports that the typical household earns roughly $140,374 per year, roughly 58% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Somerset County's 84 public schools (combined enrollment of about 51,276 students), Hamilton Primary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Hillside Intermediate School, roughly 1.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hamilton Primary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Hamilton Primary School at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 66.5%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 9%: 507 students in 2018 compared to 462 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 5% to 12%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.6:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 today.

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