Pine Grove Manor School

Pine Grove Manor School is an elementary-level community of reasonably sized scale in Somerset, New Jersey, operated by Franklin Township Public School District, serveing 346 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within Franklin Township Public School District, which oversees 10 schools and 6,950 students, Pine Grove Manor School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Pine Grove Manor School records that 73% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school logs 17% Black, 5% Asian, 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 18% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Pine Grove Manor School logs 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. Roughly 77% of students at Pine Grove Manor School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Somerset County runs at roughly 28%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Pine Grove Manor School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 24.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 31.0%.

Around the school, Somerset County reports that median household earnings sit near $140,374, roughly 58% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Pine Grove Manor School is one of 84 public schools in Somerset County (combined enrollment of about 51,276 students).

Nearest neighbor: Hillcrest School, around 0.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Pine Grove Manor School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 26.2%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 345 students in 2018 compared to 346 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 30% to 17% across the same window.

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