Mckinley Community School

Mckinley Community School is an elementary school of moderately sized scale in NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, overseen by New Brunswick School District, enrolling 524 students in grades pre-K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 405 students per school, that is 29% bigger than typical.

Within New Brunswick School District, which oversees 13 schools and 8,337 students, Mckinley Community School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Mckinley Community School reports that nearly all students (82%) are Hispanic. Beyond that, the school logs 15% Black. By comparison, Middlesex County as a whole is about 24% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 64 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 93% of students at Mckinley Community School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Middlesex County (around 42%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Mckinley Community School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 15.3%; this one delivers 19.4%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Middlesex County shows median household income runs about $111,549, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Mckinley Community School is one of 214 public schools in Middlesex County (combined enrollment of about 129,255 students).

The closest other public school is Pathways Middle School, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mckinley Community School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 21.9%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 25%: 697 students in 2018 compared to 524 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment contracted from 26% to 15% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 9.9:1 in 2018 to 8.2:1 today.

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