Menlo Park Terrace Elementary School

Menlo Park Terrace Elementary School is one of the modestly sized elementary campuss in METUCHEN, New Jersey, operated by Woodbridge Township School District, with 330 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

Across the 24 schools in Woodbridge Township School District (13,869 students total), Menlo Park Terrace Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Menlo Park Terrace Elementary School logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (41%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 23% White, 22% Asian, 11% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Middlesex County as a whole is about 24% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Menlo Park Terrace Elementary School has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.0:1. The state averages about 11.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 53% of students are eligible 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 somewhat above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Menlo Park Terrace Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 37.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 43.1%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Middlesex County indicate the typical household earns roughly $111,549 per year, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Middlesex County's 214 public schools (combined enrollment of about 129,255 students), Menlo Park Terrace Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Lafayette Estates Elementary School, around 0.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Menlo Park Terrace Elementary School at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 45.9%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Menlo Park Terrace Elementary School's enrollment has decreased 9% since 2018, when it stood at 362 (now 330). Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 32% to 41%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 today.

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