Indian Fields Elementary School

Set in DAYTON, New Jersey, Indian Fields Elementary School is a reasonably sized elementary-level community, part of South Brunswick School District. It teaches 460 students across grades K through 5.

Within South Brunswick School District, which oversees 12 schools and 7,589 students, Indian Fields Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Indian Fields Elementary School records that Asian students make up the majority at 67%. The remainder looks like 11% White, 9% Hispanic, 8% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Middlesex County as a whole is about 26% Asian, so the school skews meaningfully more Asian than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Indian Fields Elementary School has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.0:1. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 18% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably below Middlesex County's rate of about 42%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Indian Fields Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.5%, the actual is 60.0%, a residual of +3.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Middlesex County shows median household income runs about $111,549, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Middlesex County runs 214 public schools (combined enrollment of about 129,255 students), of which Indian Fields Elementary School is one.

Dayton Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Indian Fields Elementary School at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 60.2%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Indian Fields Elementary School has decreased 34%, going from 699 students in 2018 to 460 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share fell from 74% to 67%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 today.

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