Hightstown High School

As a sprawling 9-12 campus in HIGHTSTOWN, New Jersey, Hightstown High School serves 1,616 students from grades 9 through 12, operated by East Windsor Regional School District. Enrollment runs roughly 74% above the state mean of about 929.

Hightstown High School is one of 6 schools operated by East Windsor Regional School District, a district that works with 5,006 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Hightstown High School logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 23% White, 14% Asian, 9% Black, 2% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

On the resource side, Hightstown High School shows 133 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.2:1. The state averages about 12.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 47% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Hightstown High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 40.2%; this one delivers 30.0%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Mercer County indicate median household income runs about $100,645, 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Mercer County's 110 public schools (combined enrollment of about 58,647 students), Hightstown High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Walter C. Black Elementary School, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Hightstown High School comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 53.2%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 1,616 students in 2018 compared to 1,616 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 33% to 51%.

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