Marion T. Bedwell Elementary School

Located at 141 Seney Drive, in Bernardsville, New Jersey, Marion T. Bedwell Elementary School is a reasonably sized elementary campus that hosts 435 students (grades pre-K through 4), one of the schools within Somerset Hills Regional School District.

Somerset Hills Regional School District runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,605 students. Marion T. Bedwell Elementary School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Marion T. Bedwell Elementary School records that the largest single group is White, at 64% of enrollment. Other groups include 29% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Somerset County as a whole is about 52% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Marion T. Bedwell Elementary School shows 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. About 23% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Marion T. Bedwell Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 53.3%; this one delivers 61.3%.

In the area at large, Somerset County reports that the typical household earns roughly $140,374 per year, about 58% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Somerset County's 84 public schools (combined enrollment of about 51,276 students), Marion T. Bedwell Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Bernardsville Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 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), Marion T. Bedwell Elementary School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 70.7%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Over the past 7-year window. Marion T. Bedwell Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 23% since 2018, when it stood at 568 (now 435). The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 23% to 29% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 10.9:1 in 2018 to 9.4:1 in 2025.

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