Peter Muschal Elementary

Located at 323 WARD AVE, in BORDENTOWN, New Jersey, Peter Muschal Elementary is a moderately sized K-5 school that caters to 464 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within Bordentown Regional School District.

Peter Muschal Elementary is one of 5 schools operated by Bordentown Regional School District, a district that educates 2,167 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Peter Muschal Elementary logs that White students make up the majority at 65%. Other groups include 18% Hispanic, 9% Black, 8% Asian. Compared to Burlington County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 17% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Burlington County runs at roughly 32%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Peter Muschal Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.1%, the actual is 52.1%, a residual of -5.0 points.

In the area at large, census data for Burlington County shows median household income runs about $108,111, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Peter Muschal Elementary is one of 139 public schools in Burlington County (combined enrollment of about 69,020 students).

Nearest neighbor: Bordentown Regional High School, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Peter Muschal Elementary comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 44.5%.

Peter Muschal Elementary operates from an outer-ring location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Peter Muschal Elementary has edged down 9%, going from 512 students in 2018 to 464 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 9% to 18% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 12.5:1 in 2018 to 10.1:1 today.

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