Joyce Kilmer Intermediate School

Set in Trenton, New Jersey, Joyce Kilmer Intermediate School is a medium-sized 6-8 campus, operated by Trenton Public School District. It serves 546 students across grades 4 through 6.

Joyce Kilmer Intermediate School is one of 25 schools operated by Trenton Public School District, a district that instructs 13,549 students overall.

On demographics, Joyce Kilmer Intermediate School reports that the largest single group is Black, at 58% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 38% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

Looking at school resources, Joyce Kilmer Intermediate School logs 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 10.9:1 average. An estimated 82% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Mercer County's rate of about 48%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Joyce Kilmer Intermediate School is in the bottom 10% of New Jersey public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 21.1%; Joyce Kilmer Intermediate School posts 4.9%, -16.3 points below that line.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Mercer County indicate the typical household earns roughly $100,645 per year, about 45% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Mercer County runs 110 public schools (combined enrollment of about 58,647 students), of which Joyce Kilmer Intermediate School is one.

The closest other public school is Thomas Jefferson Intermediate School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Joyce Kilmer Intermediate School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 13.1%.

Joyce Kilmer Intermediate School operates from a city-core location.

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