Littlebrook School
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Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 73 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 84 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 77% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 60% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 16 points, placing it in New Jersey's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Littlebrook School
Littlebrook School is an elementary campus of middle-of-the-pack scale in PRINCETON, New Jersey, run under Princeton Public School District, caters to 374 students in grades pre-K through 5.
Across the 6 schools in Princeton Public School District (3,668 students total), Littlebrook School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On demographics, Littlebrook School lists that the most-represented group is White (39%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 39% Asian, 9% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, 6% Black.
In terms of school funding signals, Littlebrook School records 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.5:1. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 11% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Mercer County's rate of about 48%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Littlebrook School is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 60.3%; this one delivers 76.7%, a residual of +16.4 points.
In the area at large, census data for Mercer County shows 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%. Across Mercer County's 110 public schools (combined enrollment of about 58,647 students), Littlebrook School is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Riverside School, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Littlebrook School comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 72.0%.
Littlebrook School operates from an inner-city location.
Trend over the last 7 years. Littlebrook School's enrollment has grew 4% since 2018, when it stood at 358 (now 374). The Asian share of enrollment expanded from 21% to 39% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 10.5:1 in 2018 to 9.5:1 in 2025.
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