Stony Brook Elementary School

Stony Brook Elementary School is one of the moderately sized elementary campuss in PENNINGTON, New Jersey, operated by Hopewell Valley Regional School District, with 395 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 6 schools in Hopewell Valley Regional School District (3,423 students total), Stony Brook Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Stony Brook Elementary School logs that the most-represented group is Asian (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 38% White, 10% Hispanic, 8% Black, 2% multiracial. That is noticeably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 12%.

Looking at school resources, Stony Brook Elementary School lists 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.6:1. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 13% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Mercer County's rate of about 48%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Stony Brook Elementary School is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 59.2%; this one delivers 79.3%, a residual of +20.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Mercer County shows median household earnings sit near $100,645, about 45% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Mercer County's 110 public schools (combined enrollment of about 58,647 students), Stony Brook Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Mercer County Technical School STEM Academy, roughly 1.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Stony Brook Elementary School comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 48.1%.

Stony Brook Elementary School operates from an outer-ring location.

Over the past 7-year window. Stony Brook Elementary School's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 393 (now 395). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 52% to 38%.

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