The Village Charter School

The Village Charter School is an elementary-level community of average-sized scale in TRENTON, New Jersey, part of The Village Charter School, enrolling 361 students in grades K through 8.

The Village Charter School is a school of The Village Charter School, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

Demographically, The Village Charter School logs that 94% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 5% Hispanic. By comparison, Mercer County as a whole is about 19% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The Village Charter School reports 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 84% of students at The Village Charter School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Mercer County (around 48%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, The Village Charter School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 20.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 22.6%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Mercer County put median household earnings sit near $100,645, about 45% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. The Village Charter School is one of 110 public schools in Mercer County (combined enrollment of about 58,647 students).

Nearest neighbor: Joyce Kilmer Intermediate School, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around The Village Charter School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), The Village Charter School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 10.0%.

The Village Charter School operates from a downtown location. The Village Charter School operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Trend over the last 7 years. The Village Charter School's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 359 (now 361). The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 10.3:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 today.

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