Menlo Park Elementary School

Menlo Park Elementary School is one of the heavily attended K-5 schools in EDISON, New Jersey, run under Edison Township School District, with 802 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 405 students per school, that is 98% bigger than typical.

Menlo Park Elementary School is one of 19 schools operated by Edison Township School District, a district that educates 16,617 students overall.

Demographically, Menlo Park Elementary School shows that nearly all students (82%) are Asian. The remainder looks like 6% Hispanic, 5% Black, 3% White, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 26%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Menlo Park Elementary School has 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.9:1. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 22% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Middlesex County (around 42%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Menlo Park Elementary School is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 54.0%; this one delivers 69.4%, a residual of +15.5 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Middlesex County indicate the typical household earns roughly $111,549 per year, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Menlo Park Elementary School is one of 214 public schools in Middlesex County (combined enrollment of about 129,255 students).

Metuchen High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Menlo Park Elementary School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 66.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Menlo Park Elementary School has declined 6%, going from 857 students in 2018 to 802 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 8% to 3% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 in 2025.

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