MCVS Assunpink Shared Time Center/Rubino

MCVS Assunpink Shared Time Center/Rubino is a secondary school of minimally staffed scale in Trenton, New Jersey, one of the schools within Area Vocational Technical School District of Mercer County, works with 96 students in grades 7 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 929 students per school, that is 90% smaller than typical.

Area Vocational Technical School District of Mercer County comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 506 students; MCVS Assunpink Shared Time Center/Rubino is among them.

In terms of who attends, MCVS Assunpink Shared Time Center/Rubino reports that 69% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder breaks down as 22% Hispanic, 8% White. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, MCVS Assunpink Shared Time Center/Rubino records 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.7:1, putting MCVS Assunpink Shared Time Center/Rubino tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 67% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Mercer County (around 48%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Mercer County indicate median household income runs about $100,645, roughly 45% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. MCVS Assunpink Shared Time Center/Rubino is one of 110 public schools in Mercer County (combined enrollment of about 58,647 students).

The closest other public school is Mercer County Technical School Health Sciences Academy, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

MCVS Assunpink Shared Time Center/Rubino operates from a commuter-belt location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 113%: 45 students in 2018 compared to 96 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 7% to 22%. Class-load math has loosened: from 5.3:1 in 2018 to 10.1:1 in 2025.

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