Milltown Primary School
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 70 | 20% |
| Kindergarten | 35 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 59 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 42 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 68 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 74 | 21% |
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.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 79.2% | 87.1% |
| 2023-24 | 85.4% | 88.0% |
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%.
Where Milltown Primary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Somerset County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 85.2% | #13 of 1,290 | #2 of 42 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 87.1% | #21 of 1,319 | #3 of 42 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 79.2% | #98 of 1,319 | #4 of 42 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 348 | #907 of 1,562 | #33 of 46 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.2:1 | #653 of 1,390 | #38 of 45 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.6% | #595 of 1,392 | #35 of 45 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.5% | #192 of 798 | #8 of 31 |
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free or reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 348 | 31.2 | 11.2:1 | 11% (40) |
| 2023-24 | 355 | 30 | 11.8:1 | 7% (25) |
| 2022-23 | 362 | 35.4 | 10.2:1 | 7% (25) |
| 2017-18 | 427 | 43.7 | 9.8:1 | 5% (22) |
About Milltown Primary School
Milltown Primary School is a medium-sized elementary school with its address in Bridgewater, New Jersey. Classes run from pre-K through 4, and the school has 348 students.
The 11 schools in Bridgewater-Raritan Regional School District enroll 7,774 students altogether, Milltown Primary School among them.
Asian students account for 62% of enrollment at Milltown Primary School. Smaller groups are 14% White, 11% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, and 3% Black. For comparison, the population of Somerset County is roughly 20% Asian. Milltown Primary School has a diversity index of 58%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Its 31.2 full-time-equivalent teachers give the school a ratio of 11.2:1. Elementary schools in New Jersey average about 11.4:1, a similar figure. The school's lunch program data list 11% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. The rate at public schools in Somerset County averages 28%, higher than here.
BeatsExpectations places Milltown Primary School in the top 10% of New Jersey schools. The measure fits a line through proficiency and free or reduced-price lunch share for each state, and this school sits 25.4 points above it (85.2% actual, 59.9% predicted).
Recent Census Bureau figures for Somerset County show that median household income is about $140,374, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 58%, and about 4% of people live in poverty. Milltown Primary School is one of 84 public schools in Somerset County, which together enroll about 51,276 students.
Of nearby public schools, Van Holten Primary School is the closest, at about 1.1 miles. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Its average proficiency rate of 85.2% is above the 59.1% average for nearby schools.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment was 427 in 2017-18 and 348 in 2024-25, a decrease of 79 students. The student mix also changed: the White share fell from 19% to 14%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 9.8:1 in 2017-18 to 11.2:1 in 2024-25.
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