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Pond Road Middle School
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Pond Road Middle School
Pond Road Middle School operates as a big 6-8 campus in ROBBINSVILLE, New Jersey, one of the schools within Robbinsville Public School District. Current enrollment sits at 1,022 students spanning grades 5 through 8. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 578 students each, so Pond Road Middle School sits 77% larger than that benchmark.
Within Robbinsville Public School District, which oversees 3 schools and 3,073 students, Pond Road Middle School is one campus in the system.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Pond Road Middle School records that the most-represented group is Asian (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 39% White, 7% Hispanic, 3% Black, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 12% Asian, putting the school's mix noticeably more Asian than the area baseline.
On the resource side, The school lists 82 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.5:1. The state averages around 10.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 10% of students at Pond Road Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Mercer County (around 48%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Pond Road Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 60.6%; this one delivers 64.2%.
Around the school, census data for Mercer County shows the typical household earns roughly $100,645 per year, roughly 45% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Mercer County runs 110 public schools (combined enrollment of about 58,647 students), of which Pond Road Middle School is one.
The closest other public school is Robbinsville High School, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Pond Road Middle School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Pond Road Middle School at 2nd of 4; the average score across the group is 53.5%.
Pond Road Middle School operates from a low-density location.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 3%: 1,049 students in 2018 compared to 1,022 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 64% to 39% across the same window. Class-load math has grew: from 11.0:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 in 2025.
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