University Heights Elementary School

University Heights Elementary School is a K-5 school of close-knit scale in HAMILTON, New Jersey, one of the schools within Hamilton Township Public School District, educateing 308 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 24% leaner than the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 405 students.

University Heights Elementary School is one of 23 schools operated by Hamilton Township Public School District, a district that educates 12,355 students overall.

Demographically, University Heights Elementary School records that the largest single group is White at 52%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 30% Hispanic, 8% Black, 6% multiracial, 5% Asian.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, University Heights Elementary School has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting University Heights Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 34% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Mercer County's rate of about 48%.

With demographic context factored in, University Heights Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.7%, the actual is 40.9%, a residual of -6.8 points.

In the area at large, census data for Mercer County shows median household income runs about $100,645, 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Mercer County's 110 public schools (combined enrollment of about 58,647 students), University Heights Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Mercer High School, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, University Heights Elementary School comes 3rd of 4 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 45.2%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at University Heights Elementary School has changed only slightly, going from 305 students in 2018 to 308 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 65% to 52% over that span.

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