Milltown Primary School
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 79 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 87 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 6 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 85% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 60% 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 25 points, placing it in New Jersey's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Milltown Primary School
Set in Bridgewater, New Jersey, Milltown Primary School is a reasonably sized elementary campus, part of Bridgewater-Raritan Regional School District. It works with 348 students across grades pre-K through 4.
Bridgewater-Raritan Regional School District runs 11 schools in total, collectively educating 7,774 students. Milltown Primary School is one of those campuses.
Demographically, Milltown Primary School records that 62% of the student body identifies as Asian. Other groups include 14% White, 11% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Somerset County as a whole is about 20% Asian, so the school skews considerably more Asian than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 11.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 11% of students at Milltown Primary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Somerset County (around 28%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Milltown Primary 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 59.9%; this one delivers 85.2%, a residual of +25.4 points.
Around the school, ACS estimates for Somerset County put the typical household earns roughly $140,374 per year, 58% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Somerset County's 84 public schools (combined enrollment of about 51,276 students), Milltown Primary School is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Van Holten Primary School, around 1.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Milltown Primary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Milltown Primary School at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 59.1%.
The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Milltown Primary School has contracted 19%, going from 427 students in 2018 to 348 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 19% to 14% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 9.8:1 in 2018 to 11.2:1 in 2025.
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