Morgan Elementary School
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat 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.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Morgan Elementary School
Morgan Elementary School operates as a small elementary school in HAMILTON, New Jersey, one of the schools within Hamilton Township Public School District. Current enrollment sits at 285 students spanning grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 405 students per school, that is 30% below typical.
Within Hamilton Township Public School District, which oversees 23 schools and 12,355 students, Morgan Elementary School is one campus in the system.
On the student-mix side, Morgan Elementary School lists that the largest single group is White at 54%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 27% Hispanic, 9% Black, 6% multiracial, 4% Asian.
On the resource side, Morgan Elementary School reports 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.6:1. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 32% of students at Morgan Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Mercer County's rate of about 48%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Morgan Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.5%, the actual is 47.3%, a residual of -1.2 points.
Around the school, ACS estimates for Mercer County put median household earnings sit near $100,645, about 45% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Mercer County's 110 public schools (combined enrollment of about 58,647 students), Morgan Elementary School is one campus in the mix.
Mercerville Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Morgan Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Morgan Elementary School at 1st of 5; the average score across the group is 41.4%.
The school occupies a residential site.
Looking at the recent track record. Morgan Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 10% since 2018, when it stood at 316 (now 285). White enrollment moved from 64% to 54% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 9.6:1 today.
Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Morgan Elementary School typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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