Melvin H. Kreps Middle School

Melvin H. Kreps Middle School is one of the heavily attended middle-grades schools in EAST WINDSOR, New Jersey, overseen by East Windsor Regional School District, with 1,160 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. That puts it 101% bigger than the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 578 students.

Across the 6 schools in East Windsor Regional School District (5,006 students total), Melvin H. Kreps Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Melvin H. Kreps Middle School lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 48%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 23% White, 16% Asian, 9% Black, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Mercer County as a whole is about 23% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Melvin H. Kreps Middle School logs 111 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.4:1. The state averages about 10.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 48% of students at Melvin H. Kreps Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Melvin H. Kreps Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 39.8%; this one delivers 39.2%.

In the broader community, census data for Mercer County shows the typical household earns roughly $100,645 per year, 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Mercer County's 110 public schools (combined enrollment of about 58,647 students), Melvin H. Kreps Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Walter C. Black Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Melvin H. Kreps Middle School at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 58.1%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Melvin H. Kreps Middle School has shrank 6%, going from 1,228 students in 2018 to 1,160 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 33% to 23% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 12.2:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 in 2025.

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