Enrollment
285
Elementary
DISTRICT 328 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HAMILTON TOWNSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340654003120
Morgan Elementary School
38 STAMFORD ROAD, HAMILTON, NJ 08619 · (609) 631-4160 · Mercer County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL285 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
9.6:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.2:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
32%
92 students
DISTRICT 54% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 43 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 49 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 58 | 20% |
| Grade 3 | 39 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 46 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 50 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (43) is 14% smaller than its 5th grade class (50).
Student demographics
62%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · 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
63.3%
NJ avg 53.1% . +11.6pp since 2023
Math
54.6%
NJ avg 41.6% . +6.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 63 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 55 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 12 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 63.3% | 54.6% |
| 2023-24 | 51.7% | 47.8% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
47.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.5%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New Jersey's top nor bottom 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 Morgan Elementary School
Morgan Elementary School's state test result (47.3% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morgan Elementary School this school | 285 | 32.3% | 47.3% |
| University Heights Elementary School HAMILTON | 308 | 33.8% | 40.9% |
| Pine Acres Early Childhood Center WENONAH | 298 | 31.5% | N/A |
| Sayen Elementary School HAMILTON | 254 | 29.1% | 41.1% |
| Clarence B. Lamb Elementary School WRIGHTSTOWN | 294 | 36.7% | 41.0% |
| Good Intent Elementary School DEPTFORD | 327 | 30.9% | 42.8% |
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 Morgan Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Mercer County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 47.3% | #590 of 1,290 | #17 of 56 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 54.6% | #502 of 1,319 ▲ 83 | #15 of 56 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 63.3% | #418 of 1,319 ▲ 204 | #16 of 56 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 285 | #1,166 of 1,562 | #47 of 60 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.6:1 | #254 of 1,390 | #10 of 57 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.3% | #401 of 1,392 | #27 of 57 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 32.3% | #820 of 1,481 | #40 of 58 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.8% | #436 of 798 | #12 of 30 |
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
285
-3 (-1%) vs 2020
-26% since 1990-91, when it was 384
Student : Teacher
9.6:1
was 11.1:1
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 | 285 | 29.7 | 9.6:1 | 32% (92) |
| 2023-24 | 275 | 29.7 | 9.3:1 | 25% (70) |
| 2022-23 | 284 | 28.1 | 10.1:1 | 24% (69) |
| 2020-21 | 288 | 26 | 11.1:1 | 24% (68) |
| 2017-18 | 316 | 24.6 | 12.8:1 | 18% (58) |
| 2015-16 | 315 | 28 | 11.3:1 | 22% (69) |
| 2010-11 | 382 | 22 | 17.4:1 | 18% (68) |
| 2000-01 | 428 | 24 | 17.8:1 | 11% (45) |
| 1990-91 | 384 | 21 | 18.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Morgan Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 10% (316 to 285); teachers up 21% (24.6 to 29.7).
About Morgan Elementary School
Located in HAMILTON, New Jersey, Morgan Elementary School is a low-enrollment elementary school. It offers kindergarten through 5 and has 285 students enrolled. By comparison, elementary schools in New Jersey enroll about 405 students on average.
Hamilton Township Public School District has 23 schools and 12,355 students, and Morgan Elementary School is one of those schools.
More than half of the students at Morgan Elementary School are White (54%). The next largest groups are 27% Hispanic, 9% Black, 6% multiracial, and 4% Asian. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Morgan Elementary School scores 62%.
The school's 29.7 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.6:1. Statewide, elementary schools in New Jersey average 11.4:1. Income data for the school show 32% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. It compares with 48% for public schools in Mercer County.
On BeatsExpectations, Morgan Elementary School is 1.2 points below its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of New Jersey schools.
In Mercer County, median household income comes to about $100,645, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 45% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 7%. Mercer County counts 110 public schools with about 58,647 students.
Of the public schools around it, Morgan Elementary School is closest to Mercerville Elementary School, about 0.6 miles away. Morgan Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Morgan Elementary School's average proficiency of 47.3% compares with 43.0% for its nearest scored neighbors.
In the federal locale system, Morgan Elementary School is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment held near 285, starting from 288. The student-to-teacher ratio dropped from 11.1:1 in 2020-21 to 9.6:1 in 2024-25.
Morgan Elementary School has a community page on allk12 for topics such as pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. You can also rate the school on this page.
Mercer County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
385,864
Census ACS
Median income
$100,645
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
45%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
110
58,647 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Hamilton Township Public School District
- Hamilton East - SteinertHigh · 1,437 students
- Hamilton West-WatsonHigh · 1,408 students
- Hamilton North - NottinghamHigh · 1,147 students
- Albert E Grice Middle SchoolMiddle · 991 students
- Emily C. Reynolds Middle SchoolMiddle · 966 students
- Richard C Crockett Middle SchoolMiddle · 834 students
Other schools in HAMILTON
- Hamilton East - SteinertHigh · 1,437 students
- Hamilton West-WatsonHigh · 1,408 students
- Hamilton North - NottinghamHigh · 1,147 students
- Albert E Grice Middle SchoolMiddle · 991 students
- Emily C. Reynolds Middle SchoolMiddle · 966 students
- Richard C Crockett Middle SchoolMiddle · 834 students
Other Morgan Elementary schools
6 other US public schools in 7 states are named Morgan Elementary. Morgan Elementary School is the 6th largest of the 7.
- Morgan Elementary SchoolSHELBY TOWNSHIP, MI · 563 students
- Morgan Elementary SchoolPalmyra, IN · 442 students
- Morgan ElementaryHutchinson, KS · 388 students
- Morgan Elementary SchoolHamilton, OH · 385 students
- Morgan Elementary SchoolPaducah, KY · 369 students
Nearby schools
- Mercerville Elementary School0.6 mi · 350
- Sayen Elementary School0.9 mi · 254
- University Heights Elementary School1.0 mi · 308
- Mercer Elementary School1.2 mi · 141
- Regional Day School1.3 mi · 1
- Mercer High School1.3 mi · 200
Frequently asked questions
About Morgan Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Morgan Elementary School?
Morgan Elementary School enrolls approximately 285 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Morgan Elementary School serve?
Morgan Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Morgan Elementary School have?
Morgan Elementary School employs 30 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.6:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Morgan Elementary School?
At Morgan Elementary School, the student body is approximately 54% White, 27% Hispanic, 9% Black, 4% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is Morgan Elementary School public or private?
Morgan Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Hamilton Township Public School District.
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