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Alumni: what's one memory from Maurice Hawk Elementary School that still sticks with you?
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Enrollment
723
Elementary
DISTRICT 580 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WEST WINDSOR-PLAINSBORO REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341770003262
Maurice Hawk Elementary School
303 305 CLARKSVILLE ROAD, West Windsor, NJ 08550 · (609) 716-5425 · Mercer County
GRADES PK–03ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL723 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 89% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New Jersey public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
11.4:1
63 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.8:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
11%
82 students
DISTRICT 10% · STATE 41%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 60 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 152 | 21% |
| Grade 1 | 159 | 22% |
| Grade 2 | 156 | 22% |
| Grade 3 | 196 | 27% |
Student demographics
59%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 45% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Maurice Hawk Elementary School→Village Elementary School
Based on grade levels within West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
74.3%
NJ avg 53.1% . +8.0pp since 2023
Math
77.1%
NJ avg 41.6% . +8.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 74 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 77 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 9 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 74.3% | 77.1% |
| 2023-24 | 66.3% | 68.5% |
% Meeting or Exceeding Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: NJSLA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
71.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
60.0%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 72% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 60% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New Jersey's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Maurice Hawk Elementary School
Maurice Hawk Elementary School's state test result (71.5% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maurice Hawk Elementary School this school | 723 | 11.3% | 71.5% |
| Village Elementary School West Windsor | 657 | 7.6% | 69.6% |
| Hatikvah International Academy Charter School East Brunswick | 657 | 8.8% | 81.9% |
| Dutch Neck Elementary School West Windsor | 557 | 8.6% | 64.2% |
| Village Elementary School Skillman | 591 | 7.1% | 70.9% |
| School No. 1 FORT LEE | 540 | 17.6% | 77.6% |
Matched among New Jersey elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Maurice Hawk Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Mercer County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 71.5% | #136 of 1,290 | #5 of 56 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 77.1% | #130 of 1,319 ▲ 106 | #6 of 56 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 74.3% | #182 of 1,319 ▲ 143 | #6 of 56 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 723 | #99 of 1,562 | #3 of 60 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.4:1 | #723 of 1,390 | #28 of 57 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 58.9% | #543 of 1,392 | #29 of 57 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 11.3% | #1,220 of 1,481 | #50 of 58 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.5% | #674 of 798 | #24 of 30 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
723
0 (0%) vs 2020
+6% since 1990-91, when it was 680
Student : Teacher
11.4:1
was 12.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 723 | 63.3 | 11.4:1 | 11% (82) |
| 2023-24 | 727 | 62.4 | 11.7:1 | 10% (70) |
| 2022-23 | 758 | 58.5 | 13.0:1 | 8% (57) |
| 2020-21 | 723 | 57 | 12.7:1 | 3% (25) |
| 2017-18 | 749 | 50.7 | 14.8:1 | 3% (22) |
| 2015-16 | 790 | 50 | 15.8:1 | 3% (26) |
| 2010-11 | 846 | 48 | 17.6:1 | 2% (20) |
| 2000-01 | 719 | 43 | 16.7:1 | 6% (46) |
| 1990-91 | 680 | 35 | 19.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Maurice Hawk Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 3% (749 to 723); teachers up 25% (50.7 to 63.3).
About Maurice Hawk Elementary School
At 303 305 CLARKSVILLE ROAD in West Windsor, New Jersey, Maurice Hawk Elementary School operates as a large elementary school. Its grade span covers pre-K through 3, with 723 students on the rolls. Across elementary schools in New Jersey, the average enrollment is about 405.
Maurice Hawk Elementary School is one of the 10 schools that make up West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District (8,831 students in total).
Asian students are 61% of those enrolled at Maurice Hawk Elementary School. The remaining shares are 15% White, 12% multiracial, 6% Black, and 6% Hispanic. Census estimates put the Asian share of Mercer County's population at about 12%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 59, compared with 70 nationally.
Staffing at Maurice Hawk Elementary School comes to 63.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 11.4:1. The ratio is within a point of the 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey. On the income side, 11% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The rate at public schools in Mercer County averages 48%, higher than here.
Maurice Hawk Elementary School holds an A allk12 Grade, placing it above 89% of New Jersey public elementary schools.
On BeatsExpectations, Maurice Hawk Elementary School is 11.6 points above its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of New Jersey schools.
In Mercer County, where the school is located, the median household earns about $100,645 a year, 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of people live in poverty. Counting Maurice Hawk Elementary School, Mercer County has 110 public schools.
About 0.4 miles separate Maurice Hawk Elementary School from the closest public school, West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Maurice Hawk Elementary School is 4th of 9 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
Maurice Hawk Elementary School has an NCES locale of Suburb: Large.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment held near 723, starting from 723. The ratio of students to teachers went from 12.7:1 to 11.4:1 over the same years.
The Maurice Hawk Elementary School discussion page is a place for special education services, counseling, and support programs. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
Mercer County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
385,864
Census ACS
Median income
$100,645
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
45%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
110
58,647 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District
- West Windsor-Plainsboro High School SouthHigh · 1,627 students
- West Windsor-Plainsboro High School NorthHigh · 1,510 students
- Thomas R Grover Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,183 students
- Community Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,029 students
- Millstone River SchoolElementary · 772 students
- Village Elementary SchoolElementary · 657 students
Other schools in West Windsor
- West Windsor-Plainsboro High School SouthHigh · 1,627 students
- Thomas R Grover Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,183 students
- Village Elementary SchoolElementary · 657 students
- Dutch Neck Elementary SchoolElementary · 557 students
Nearby schools
- West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South0.4 mi · 1,627
- West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North1.8 mi · 1,510
- Community Middle School1.9 mi · 1,029
- Dutch Neck Elementary School2.0 mi · 557
- Millstone River School2.1 mi · 772
- J.V.B. Wicoff Elementary School2.5 mi · 334
Frequently asked questions
About Maurice Hawk Elementary SchoolHow large is Maurice Hawk Elementary School?
Maurice Hawk Elementary School enrolls approximately 723 students in grades PK-03.
What age range does Maurice Hawk Elementary School serve?
Maurice Hawk Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 03.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Maurice Hawk Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Maurice Hawk Elementary School is approximately 11.4:1 (63 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Maurice Hawk Elementary School?
At Maurice Hawk Elementary School, the student body is approximately 15% White, 6% Hispanic, 6% Black, 61% Asian, 12% Two or more.
What district is Maurice Hawk Elementary School in?
Maurice Hawk Elementary School is part of West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.