Johnson Park School

As a moderately sized primary school in PRINCETON, New Jersey, Johnson Park School instructs 360 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under Princeton Public School District.

Princeton Public School District comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 3,668 students; Johnson Park School is among them.

On demographics, Johnson Park School lists that the largest single group is White at 37%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school reports 24% Asian, 22% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 7% Black. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 46%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Johnson Park School has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.4:1. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 21% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Mercer County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Johnson Park School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.6%, the actual is 66.6%, a residual of +12.0 points.

In the broader community, Mercer County reports that the typical household earns roughly $100,645 per year, 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), Johnson Park School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Community Park School, roughly 1.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Johnson Park School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 70.0%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Johnson Park School has contracted 8%, going from 391 students in 2018 to 360 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 13% to 24% across the same window.

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