Irwin Elementary School

Irwin Elementary School is an elementary campus of intimate scale in EAST BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, one of the schools within East Brunswick Township School District, hosting 305 students in grades pre-K through 4. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 405 students each, so Irwin Elementary School sits 25% below that benchmark.

Across the 11 schools in East Brunswick Township School District (8,096 students total), Irwin Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Irwin Elementary School logs that the most-represented group is White (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 38% Asian, 12% Hispanic, 4% Black, 4% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Middlesex County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 30% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Middlesex County's rate of about 42%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Irwin 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 49.5%; Irwin Elementary School posts 73.6%, +24.1 points above that line.

In the broader community, Middlesex County reports that the typical household earns roughly $111,549 per year, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 Irwin Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is East Brunswick Magnet School, roughly 0.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Irwin Elementary School comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 46.0%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 32%: 449 students in 2018 compared to 305 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 48% to 42% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 12.2:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 in 2025.

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