Spotswood High School

As a small high school in SPOTSWOOD, New Jersey, Spotswood High School educates 762 students from grades 9 through 12, operated by Spotswood Public School District.

Within Spotswood Public School District, which oversees 4 schools and 1,631 students, Spotswood High School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Spotswood High School logs that the largest single group is White, at 66% of enrollment. Other groups include 22% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 5% Black, 2% multiracial. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 12.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 23% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Middlesex County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Spotswood High School is in the bottom 10% of New Jersey public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 53.3%; Spotswood High School posts 30.5%, -22.8 points below that line.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Middlesex County put median household income runs about $111,549, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Spotswood High School is one of 214 public schools in Middlesex County (combined enrollment of about 129,255 students).

The closest other public school is Spotswood Memorial Middle School, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Spotswood High School at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 53.3%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 12%: 679 students in 2018 compared to 762 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 77% to 66% over that span.

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