Thomas R Grover Middle School

Thomas R Grover Middle School is a sizable junior high in West Windsor, New Jersey, part of West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District. The school instructs 1,183 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 578 students each, so Thomas R Grover Middle School sits 105% bigger than that benchmark.

West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District comprises 10 schools with combined enrollment of 8,831 students; Thomas R Grover Middle School is among them.

On demographics, Thomas R Grover Middle School lists that 74% of the student body identifies as Asian. Beyond that, the school lists 13% White, 5% Black, 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 12% Asian, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Asian than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 102 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 10.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 9% of students at Thomas R Grover Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Mercer County's rate of about 48%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Thomas R Grover Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 61.4%; this one delivers 66.0%.

Across the wider county, Mercer County reports that median household income runs about $100,645, roughly 45% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Mercer County's 110 public schools (combined enrollment of about 58,647 students), Thomas R Grover Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Village Elementary School, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Thomas R Grover Middle School. On composite proficiency, Thomas R Grover Middle School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 64.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 6%: 1,264 students in 2018 compared to 1,183 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 20% to 13% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 12.9:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 in 2025.

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