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Alumni: what's one memory from Menlo Park Elementary School that still sticks with you?
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Enrollment
802
Elementary
DISTRICT 568 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EDISON TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340450003356
Menlo Park Elementary School
155 MONROE AVENUE, EDISON, NJ 08820 · (732) 452-2910 · Middlesex County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL802 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 91% 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.
- ABeats 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
13.9:1
58 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.7:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
22%
179 students
DISTRICT 30% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 113 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 124 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 132 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 117 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 151 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 165 | 21% |
This year's kindergarten class (113) is 32% smaller than its 5th grade class (165).
Student demographics
33%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 55% · 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
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
72.4%
NJ avg 53.1% . +2.2pp since 2023
Math
73.4%
NJ avg 41.6% . +2.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 72 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 73 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 72.4% | 73.4% |
| 2023-24 | 70.2% | 71.0% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NJ schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
69.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.0%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+15.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 69% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 54% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 15 points, placing it in New Jersey's top 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 Menlo Park Elementary School
Menlo Park Elementary School's state test result (69.4% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Menlo Park Elementary School this school | 802 | 22.3% | 69.4% |
| Woodbrook Elementary School EDISON | 786 | 13.9% | 71.3% |
| Lincoln Elementary School EDISON | 946 | 23.3% | 62.8% |
| Martin Luther King Elementary School EDISON | 591 | 14.7% | 73.8% |
| James Madison Intermediate School EDISON | 586 | 14.2% | 76.0% |
| Millstone River School PLAINSBORO | 772 | 10.5% | 62.0% |
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 Menlo Park Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Middlesex County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 69.4% | #164 of 1,290 | #12 of 111 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 73.4% | #190 of 1,319 ▲ 5 | #12 of 111 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 72.4% | #214 of 1,319 ▲ 27 | #12 of 111 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 802 | #55 of 1,562 | #4 of 130 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.9:1 | #1,221 of 1,390 | #104 of 120 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 32.5% | #1,199 of 1,392 | #102 of 121 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 22.3% | #997 of 1,481 | #99 of 128 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.4% | #562 of 798 | #73 of 84 |
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
802
-49 (-6%) vs 2020
+61% since 1990-91, when it was 497
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
was 16.1:1
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 | 802 | 57.8 | 13.9:1 | 22% (179) |
| 2023-24 | 827 | 58.8 | 14.1:1 | 20% (168) |
| 2022-23 | 825 | 55.8 | 14.8:1 | 18% (151) |
| 2020-21 | 851 | 53 | 16.1:1 | 10% (88) |
| 2017-18 | 857 | 48.4 | 17.7:1 | 16% (137) |
| 2015-16 | 856 | 55 | 15.6:1 | 15% (131) |
| 2010-11 | 805 | 43 | 18.7:1 | 14% (111) |
| 2000-01 | 649 | 39 | 16.6:1 | 9% (60) |
| 1990-91 | 497 | 24 | 20.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Menlo Park Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 6% (857 to 802); teachers up 19% (48.4 to 57.8).
About Menlo Park Elementary School
Menlo Park Elementary School is an elementary school in EDISON, New Jersey, according to federal school records. A total of 802 students attend the school, which covers kindergarten through 5. Against the 405-student average for elementary schools in New Jersey, enrollment here is 98% higher.
Edison Township School District is the local district for Menlo Park Elementary School. It runs 19 schools with 16,617 students.
Asian students are the large majority at Menlo Park Elementary School, with 82% of enrollment. Other groups make up 6% Hispanic, 5% Black, 3% White, and 3% multiracial. County-wide, 26% of Middlesex County residents are Asian. By the diversity index, Menlo Park Elementary School comes in at 33%.
The teaching staff at Menlo Park Elementary School is 57.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 13.9:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in New Jersey is 11.4:1, lower than at this school. About 22% of students, or 179, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The rate at public schools in Middlesex County averages 42%, higher than here.
The allk12 Grade for Menlo Park Elementary School is A. Compared with New Jersey public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 91% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Compared with New Jersey schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Menlo Park Elementary School does better than predicted by 15.5 points. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 69.4%; the prediction is 54.0%.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Middlesex County show that median household income is about $111,549, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 46%, and about 6% of people live in poverty. Menlo Park Elementary School is one of 214 public schools in Middlesex County, which together enroll about 129,255 students.
The closest public school to Menlo Park Elementary School is Metuchen High School, about 0.6 miles away. Within five miles of Menlo Park Elementary School, there are at least 8 other public schools. On proficiency, Menlo Park Elementary School is ahead of the 66.7% nearby average, ranking 4th of 9.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Large, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The number of students declined from 851 to 802 over 4 years. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio fell to 13.9:1, from 16.1:1.
Questions about science fairs, picture day, and bus routes can be posted here. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
Middlesex County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
871,290
Census ACS
Median income
$111,549
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
46%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
214
129,255 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Edison Township School District
- John P. Stevens High SchoolHigh · 2,687 students
- Edison High SchoolHigh · 2,393 students
- Woodrow Wilson Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,206 students
- Herbert Hoover Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,060 students
- Thomas Jefferson Middle SchoolMiddle · 954 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolElementary · 946 students
Other schools in EDISON
- John P. Stevens High SchoolHigh · 2,687 students
- Edison High SchoolHigh · 2,393 students
- Woodrow Wilson Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,206 students
- Herbert Hoover Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,060 students
- Thomas Jefferson Middle SchoolMiddle · 954 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolElementary · 946 students
Other Menlo Park Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Menlo Park Elementary. Menlo Park Elementary School is the largest of the 2.
- Menlo Park Elementary SchoolPortland, OR · 355 students
Nearby schools
- Metuchen High School0.6 mi · 718
- John P. Stevens High School1.3 mi · 2,687
- Woodrow Wilson Middle School1.3 mi · 1,206
- Woodbrook Elementary School1.4 mi · 786
- Campbell Elementary School1.4 mi · 698
- John Adams Middle School1.5 mi · 930
Frequently asked questions
About Menlo Park Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Menlo Park Elementary School?
Menlo Park Elementary School enrolls approximately 802 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Menlo Park Elementary School serve?
Menlo Park Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many teachers does Menlo Park Elementary School have?
Menlo Park Elementary School employs 58 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.9:1.
What is the student diversity at Menlo Park Elementary School?
Student demographics at Menlo Park Elementary School are roughly 3% White, 6% Hispanic, 5% Black, 82% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is Menlo Park Elementary School in?
Menlo Park Elementary School is part of Edison Township School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.