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Enrollment
530
Elementary
DISTRICT 409 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HILLSBOROUGH TOWNSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340723005228
Sunnymead Elementary School
55 Sunnymead Road, Hillsborough, NJ 08844 · (908) 431-6600 · Somerset County
GRADES KG–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL530 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 92% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New Jersey public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.5:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
25%
134 students
DISTRICT 16% · STATE 41%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 78 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 98 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 100 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 122 | 23% |
| Grade 4 | 132 | 25% |
This year's kindergarten class (78) is 41% smaller than its 4th grade class (132).
Student demographics
73%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 68% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Sunnymead Elementary School→Auten Road Intermediate School→Hillsborough Township Middle School→Hillsborough High School
Based on grade levels within Hillsborough Township Public School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
66.9%
NJ avg 53.1% . -2.6pp since 2023
Math
72.0%
NJ avg 41.6% . -2.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 72 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 66.9% | 72.0% |
| 2023-24 | 69.5% | 74.7% |
% Meeting or Exceeding Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: NJSLA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NJ schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
70.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.3%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+18.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 71% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 52% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 18 points, placing it in New Jersey's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Sunnymead Elementary School
Sunnymead Elementary School's state test result (70.7% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunnymead Elementary School this school | 530 | 25.3% | 70.7% |
| Hillsborough Township Elementary School Hillsborough | 467 | 21.6% | 76.4% |
| Huber Street School SECAUCUS | 563 | 26.5% | 43.9% |
| Memorial Elementary School EAST BRUNSWICK | 408 | 24.8% | 57.6% |
| James Monroe Elementary School Edison | 537 | 34.6% | 51.2% |
| Eleanor Van Gelder EDGEWATER | 384 | 20.3% | 57.8% |
Matched among New Jersey elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Sunnymead Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Somerset County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 70.7% | #151 of 1,290 | #13 of 42 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 72.0% | #214 of 1,319 ▼ 89 | #17 of 42 ▼ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 66.9% | #336 of 1,319 ▼ 76 | #19 of 42 ▼ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 530 | #336 of 1,562 | #10 of 46 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.3:1 | #1,149 of 1,390 | #45 of 45 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 73.2% | #56 of 1,392 | #3 of 45 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 25.3% | #936 of 1,481 | #18 of 45 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +15.0% | #152 of 545 | #3 of 13 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
530
+35 (+7%) vs 2020
+27% since 1990-91, when it was 418
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
was 16.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 530 | 39.7 | 13.3:1 | 25% (134) |
| 2023-24 | 529 | 38.2 | 13.8:1 | 18% (94) |
| 2022-23 | 496 | 35 | 14.2:1 | 15% (76) |
| 2020-21 | 495 | 31 | 16.0:1 | 14% (71) |
| 2017-18 | 461 | 39 | 11.8:1 | 19% (89) |
| 2015-16 | 423 | 41 | 10.3:1 | 22% (94) |
| 2010-11 | 407 | 31 | 13.1:1 | 14% (55) |
| 2000-01 | 529 | 35 | 15.1:1 | 6% (34) |
| 1990-91 | 418 | 24 | 17.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sunnymead Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 15% (461 to 530); teachers up 2% (39 to 39.7).
About Sunnymead Elementary School
Sunnymead Elementary School is classified as an elementary school. It is located in Hillsborough, New Jersey. It has an enrollment of 530 students in kindergarten through 4. Across elementary schools in New Jersey, the average enrollment is about 405.
Sunnymead Elementary School is in Hillsborough Township Public School District, a district with 7,191 students across 9 schools.
The largest racial or ethnic group at Sunnymead Elementary School is Asian, with 38% of students. The next largest groups are 28% White, 19% Hispanic, 8% Black, and 5% multiracial. The school's Asian share is 18 points above the 20% share among Somerset County residents. The diversity index for Sunnymead Elementary School is 73%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The school had 39.7 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25. Its student-to-teacher ratio is 13.3:1. The gap from the 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey is 1.9 students per teacher. The school reported 25% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25.
Among New Jersey public elementary schools, Sunnymead Elementary School outscored 92%, which works out to an A on the allk12 Grade.
The school's average proficiency rate across its state test results, 70.7%, is 18.3 points above the 52.3% the model predicts from its free or reduced-price lunch share. That result is in the top 10% of New Jersey schools.
The school is in Somerset County, where median household income comes to about $140,374, 58% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Somerset County counts 84 public schools with about 51,276 students.
A public school about 1.0 miles away, Weston Elementary School, is the closest to Sunnymead Elementary School. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Sunnymead Elementary School. On proficiency, Sunnymead Elementary School is ahead of the 39.6% nearby average, ranking 2nd of 6.
The school's federal locale classification is Suburb: Large.
Enrollment figures show a rise of 35 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25. By 2024-25, the school had 13.3 students per teacher, compared with 16.0 in 2020-21.
The allk12 page for Sunnymead Elementary School lets the school community talk about athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. You can also rate the school on this page.
Somerset County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
349,846
Census ACS
Median income
$140,374
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
58%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
84
51,276 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Hillsborough Township Public School District
- Hillsborough High SchoolHigh · 2,377 students
- Hillsborough Township Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,246 students
- Auten Road Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 1,112 students
- Hillsborough Township Elementary SchoolElementary · 467 students
- Woods Road Elementary SchoolElementary · 410 students
- Amsterdam Elementary SchoolElementary · 376 students
Other schools in Hillsborough
- Hillsborough High SchoolHigh · 2,377 students
- Hillsborough Township Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,246 students
- Auten Road Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 1,112 students
- Hillsborough Township Elementary SchoolElementary · 467 students
- Woods Road Elementary SchoolElementary · 410 students
- Amsterdam Elementary SchoolElementary · 376 students
Other Sunnymead Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Sunnymead Elementary. Sunnymead Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Sunnymead ElementaryMoreno Valley, CA · 642 students
Nearby schools
- Weston Elementary School1.0 mi · 404
- Manville High School1.1 mi · 528
- Alexander Batcho Intermediate School1.2 mi · 510
- Roosevelt School1.4 mi · 213
- Hillsborough Township Middle School2.1 mi · 1,246
- Triangle Elementary School2.2 mi · 362
Frequently asked questions
About Sunnymead Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Sunnymead Elementary School?
Sunnymead Elementary School enrolls approximately 530 students in grades KG-04.
What age range does Sunnymead Elementary School serve?
Sunnymead Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 04.
How many students per teacher at Sunnymead Elementary School?
Approximately 13.3:1 students per teacher at Sunnymead Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Sunnymead Elementary School?
At Sunnymead Elementary School, the student body is approximately 28% White, 19% Hispanic, 8% Black, 38% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Sunnymead Elementary School in?
Sunnymead Elementary School is part of Hillsborough Township Public School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.