Luis Munoz-Rivera Elementary School

Luis Munoz-Rivera Elementary School is a K-5 school of reasonably sized scale in Trenton, New Jersey, one of the schools within Trenton Public School District, instructing 468 students in grades K through 3.

Trenton Public School District comprises 25 schools with combined enrollment of 13,549 students; Luis Munoz-Rivera Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Luis Munoz-Rivera Elementary School shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 60% of enrollment; the rest is composed of 35% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Mercer County as a whole is about 23% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. An estimated 86% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Mercer County's rate of about 48%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, Luis Munoz-Rivera Elementary School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 19.3%; actual is 2.7%, a gap of -16.5 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Mercer County indicate median household earnings sit near $100,645, about 45% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Mercer County's 110 public schools (combined enrollment of about 58,647 students), Luis Munoz-Rivera Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Trenton Central High School-9th Grade Academy, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Luis Munoz-Rivera Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Luis Munoz-Rivera Elementary School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 11.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

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