Smalley Elementary School

Smalley Elementary School is one of the compact intermediate schools in Bound Brook, New Jersey, one of the schools within Bound Brook School District, with 424 students on its rolls from grades 4 through 6. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 578 students each, so Smalley Elementary School sits 27% smaller than that benchmark.

Smalley Elementary School is one of 5 schools operated by Bound Brook School District, a district that serves 1,917 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Smalley Elementary School records that 76% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 11% White, 8% Black, 3% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 18%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 7.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 10.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 82% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Somerset County's rate of about 28%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Smalley Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 21.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 21.9%.

Around the school, Somerset County reports that median household earnings sit near $140,374, 58% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Somerset County's 84 public schools (combined enrollment of about 51,276 students), Smalley Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Bound Brook High School, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Smalley Elementary School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 34.3%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Smalley Elementary School has edged up 12%, going from 377 students in 2018 to 424 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 12.9:1 in 2018 to 7.5:1 in 2025.

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