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Enrollment
425
Elementary
DISTRICT 451 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SAYREVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341464003588
Harry S. Truman Elementary School
ONE TAFT PLACE, PARLIN, NJ 08859 · (732) 525-5215 · Middlesex County
GRADES KG–03ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL425 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 75% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
11.5:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.3:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
46%
197 students
DISTRICT 45% · STATE 41%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 94 | 22% |
| Grade 1 | 95 | 22% |
| Grade 2 | 122 | 29% |
| Grade 3 | 114 | 27% |
Student demographics
74%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 75% · 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
Harry S. Truman Elementary School→Samsel Upper Elementary School→Sayreville Middle School→Sayreville War Memorial High School
Based on grade levels within Sayreville School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
54.7%
NJ avg 53.1% . +8.5pp since 2023
Math
59.8%
NJ avg 41.6% . +9.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 60 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 9 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 54.7% | 59.8% |
| 2023-24 | 46.2% | 50.4% |
% 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
52.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.8%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+12.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% 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 Harry S. Truman Elementary School
Harry S. Truman Elementary School's state test result (52.8% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harry S. Truman Elementary School this school | 425 | 46.4% | 52.8% |
| Emma Arleth Elementary School PARLIN | 485 | 47.0% | 48.0% |
| Woodrow Wilson Elementary School SAYREVILLE | 401 | 46.6% | 47.7% |
| Shady Lane Elementary School WESTVILLE | 422 | 48.3% | 31.6% |
| Roebling Elementary School ROEBLING | 410 | 52.2% | 22.4% |
| Cliffwood Elementary School CLIFFWOOD | 358 | 49.4% | 44.0% |
Matched among New Jersey elementary 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 Harry S. Truman Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Middlesex County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 52.8% | #463 of 1,290 | #43 of 111 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 59.8% | #408 of 1,319 ▲ 134 | #34 of 111 ▲ 21 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 54.7% | #602 of 1,319 ▲ 155 | #49 of 111 ▲ 10 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 425 | #619 of 1,562 | #64 of 130 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.5:1 | #740 of 1,390 | #66 of 120 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 73.8% | #41 of 1,392 | #11 of 121 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 46.4% | #640 of 1,481 | #48 of 128 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.0% | #255 of 798 | #44 of 84 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
425
-28 (-6%) vs 2020
-7% since 1990-91, when it was 459
Student : Teacher
11.5:1
was 12.6:1
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 | 425 | 37 | 11.5:1 | 46% (197) |
| 2023-24 | 440 | 36 | 12.2:1 | 41% (180) |
| 2022-23 | 440 | 35.3 | 12.5:1 | 37% (164) |
| 2020-21 | 453 | 36 | 12.6:1 | 36% (165) |
| 2017-18 | 506 | 36 | 14.1:1 | 36% (180) |
| 2015-16 | 536 | 38 | 14.1:1 | 34% (180) |
| 2010-11 | 509 | 28 | 18.2:1 | 31% (156) |
| 2000-01 | 604 | 31 | 19.5:1 | 13% (79) |
| 1990-91 | 459 | 23 | 20.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Harry S. Truman Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 16% (506 to 425); teachers up 3% (36 to 37).
About Harry S. Truman Elementary School
Harry S. Truman Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school located in PARLIN, New Jersey. The school reports 425 students in kindergarten through 3.
Sayreville School District is made up of 9 schools with 6,215 students in all.
Harry S. Truman Elementary School's enrollment has no majority group, and White students are the largest at 41%. The remaining students are 21% Hispanic, 16% Black, 13% Asian, and 6% multiracial. The county population is about 41% White, within a few points of the school. The chance that two students picked at random at Harry S. Truman Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 74%.
The school reports 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 11.5 students per teacher. Elementary schools in New Jersey have a similar average ratio of 11.4:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility covers 46% of students.
Harry S. Truman Elementary School is graded A- by allk12, scoring above 75% of New Jersey public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
A school with Harry S. Truman Elementary School's lunch-eligibility share in New Jersey is predicted to score 40.8%. Harry S. Truman Elementary School scores 52.8%, 12.0 points above that line.
Within Middlesex County, median household income is about $111,549, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 46% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 6%. Federal data list 214 public schools in Middlesex County, with a combined enrollment of about 129,255.
The school nearest to Harry S. Truman Elementary School is Emma Arleth Elementary School, at a distance of about 0.4 miles. Within five miles of Harry S. Truman Elementary School, there are at least 8 other public schools. Harry S. Truman Elementary School is 2nd of 8 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
Under the NCES locale system, Harry S. Truman Elementary School is Suburb: Large.
The student count in 2024-25 was 425, 6% below the 453 of 2020-21. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio fell from 12.6:1 to 11.5:1.
Threads on this page can be about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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 Sayreville School District
- Sayreville War Memorial High SchoolHigh · 1,764 students
- Sayreville Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,294 students
- Samsel Upper Elementary SchoolElementary · 870 students
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary SchoolElementary · 488 students
- Emma Arleth Elementary SchoolElementary · 485 students
- Woodrow Wilson Elementary SchoolElementary · 401 students
Other schools in PARLIN
- Sayreville War Memorial High SchoolHigh · 1,764 students
- Sayreville Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,294 students
- Samsel Upper Elementary SchoolElementary · 870 students
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary SchoolElementary · 488 students
- Emma Arleth Elementary SchoolElementary · 485 students
- Madison Park Elementary SchoolElementary · 328 students
Other Harry S. Truman Elementary schools
3 other US public schools in 3 states are named Harry S. Truman Elementary. Harry S. Truman Elementary School is the 3rd largest of the 4.
- Harry S. Truman ElementaryLa Quinta, CA · 635 students
- HARRY S. TRUMAN ELEM.ROLLA, MO · 448 students
- HARRY S. TRUMAN ELEM.WEBB CITY, MO · 287 students
Nearby schools
- Emma Arleth Elementary School0.4 mi · 485
- Sayreville War Memorial High School0.9 mi · 1,764
- Sayreville Middle School1.1 mi · 1,294
- Samsel Upper Elementary School1.3 mi · 870
- South Amboy Elementary1.5 mi · 584
- Madison Park Elementary School1.5 mi · 328
Frequently asked questions
About Harry S. Truman Elementary SchoolHow large is Harry S. Truman Elementary School?
Harry S. Truman Elementary School enrolls approximately 425 students in grades KG-03.
Is Harry S. Truman Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Harry S. Truman Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-03.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Harry S. Truman Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Harry S. Truman Elementary School is approximately 11.5:1 (37 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Harry S. Truman Elementary School?
Harry S. Truman Elementary School reports a student body of 41% White, 21% Hispanic, 16% Black, 13% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Harry S. Truman Elementary School?
Harry S. Truman Elementary School is overseen by Sayreville School District in Middlesex County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.