Enrollment
348
Elementary
DISTRICT 384 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BRIDGEWATER-RARITAN REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340228006126
Milltown Primary School
611 Milltown Road, Bridgewater, NJ 08807 · (908) 927-9510 · Somerset County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL348 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 99% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
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
11.2:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.2:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
11%
40 students
DISTRICT 16% · STATE 41%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 70 | 20% |
| Kindergarten | 35 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 59 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 42 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 68 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 74 | 21% |
This year's kindergarten class (35) is 53% smaller than its 4th grade class (74).
Student demographics
58%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · 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
79.2%
NJ avg 53.1% . -6.2pp since 2023
Math
87.1%
NJ avg 41.6% . -0.9pp since 2023
What 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% |
% 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
85.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.9%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+25.4pp
above demographic expectation
What 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%.
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 Milltown Primary School
Milltown Primary School's state test result (85.2% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Milltown Primary School this school | 348 | 11.5% | 85.2% |
| Eastlake Elementary School Parsippany | 364 | 13.7% | 69.4% |
| Monmouth Junction Elementary School MONMOUTH JUNCTION | 301 | 13.3% | 80.2% |
| J.V.B. Wicoff Elementary School PLAINSBORO | 334 | 8.1% | 74.4% |
| Northvail Elementary School PARSIPPANY | 359 | 12.5% | 75.3% |
| Indian Fields Elementary School DAYTON | 460 | 17.6% | 60.0% |
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 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 ▼ 7 | #3 of 42 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 79.2% | #98 of 1,319 ▼ 65 | #4 of 42 ▼ 2 |
| 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 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 11.5% | #1,214 of 1,481 | #30 of 45 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.5% | #192 of 798 | #8 of 31 |
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
348
-54 (-13%) vs 2020
-33% since 2010-11, when it was 519
Student : Teacher
11.2:1
was 9.3:1
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 | 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) |
| 2020-21 | 402 | 43 | 9.3:1 | 6% (23) |
| 2017-18 | 427 | 43.7 | 9.8:1 | 5% (22) |
| 2015-16 | 465 | 44 | 10.6:1 | 8% (36) |
| 2010-11 | 519 | 33 | 15.7:1 | 4% (19) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Milltown Primary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 19% (427 to 348); teachers down 29% (43.7 to 31.2).
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.
allk12 grades Milltown Primary School an A+. The grade compares the school only with New Jersey public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
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 402 in 2020-21 and 348 in 2024-25, a decrease of 54 students. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 9.3:1 in 2020-21 to 11.2:1 in 2024-25.
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Somerset County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
349,846
Census ACS
Median income
$140,374
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
58%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
84
51,276 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Bridgewater-Raritan Regional School District
- Bridgewater-Raritan High SchoolHigh · 2,673 students
- Bridgewater-Raritan Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,220 students
- Eisenhower Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 625 students
- Hillside Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 568 students
- Hamilton Primary SchoolElementary · 462 students
- Adamsville Primary SchoolElementary · 461 students
Other schools in Bridgewater
- Bridgewater-Raritan High SchoolHigh · 2,673 students
- Bridgewater-Raritan Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,220 students
- Eisenhower Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 625 students
- Hillside Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 568 students
- Adamsville Primary SchoolElementary · 461 students
- Crim Primary SchoolElementary · 396 students
Nearby schools
- Van Holten Primary School1.1 mi · 311
- Eisenhower Intermediate School1.7 mi · 625
- Stony Brook School2.0 mi · 310
- Bridgewater-Raritan High School2.1 mi · 2,673
- John F. Kennedy Primary School2.4 mi · 431
- Bradley Gardens Primary School2.5 mi · 279
Frequently asked questions
About Milltown Primary SchoolHow many students attend Milltown Primary School?
Milltown Primary School enrolls approximately 348 students in grades PK-04.
What age range does Milltown Primary School serve?
Milltown Primary School serves students from grade PK through grade 04.
How many students per teacher at Milltown Primary School?
Approximately 11.2:1 students per teacher at Milltown Primary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Milltown Primary School?
At Milltown Primary School, the student body is approximately 14% White, 11% Hispanic, 3% Black, 62% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Milltown Primary School public or private?
Milltown Primary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Bridgewater-Raritan Regional School District.
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