Hillsborough Township Elementary School

Hillsborough Township Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in Hillsborough, New Jersey, overseen by Hillsborough Township Public School District. The school serves 467 students in grades K through 4.

Within Hillsborough Township Public School District, which oversees 9 schools and 7,191 students, Hillsborough Township Elementary School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Hillsborough Township Elementary School logs that 38% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest comes out to 34% White, 15% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 4% Black. By comparison, Somerset County as a whole is about 20% Asian, so the school skews considerably more Asian than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 11.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 22% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Hillsborough Township Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of New Jersey public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 54.3%; Hillsborough Township Elementary School posts 76.4%, +22.1 points above that line.

In the area at large, Somerset County reports that median household earnings sit near $140,374, 58% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Somerset County runs 84 public schools (combined enrollment of about 51,276 students), of which Hillsborough Township Elementary School is one.

Hillsborough High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hillsborough Township Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Hillsborough Township Elementary School comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 67.3%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hillsborough Township Elementary School has decreased 6%, going from 499 students in 2018 to 467 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 53% to 34% across the same window.

On allk12, members of the Hillsborough Township Elementary School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.