Van Holten Primary School

Van Holten Primary School, a close-knit K-5 school in Bridgewater, New Jersey, overseen by Bridgewater-Raritan Regional School District, enrolls 311 students, covering grades K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 23% leaner than the state mean of about 405.

Van Holten Primary School is one of 11 schools operated by Bridgewater-Raritan Regional School District, a district that serves 7,774 students overall.

On demographics, Van Holten Primary School records that 52% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school records 21% Asian, 16% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 5% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 11.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 8% of students at Van Holten Primary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Somerset County runs at roughly 28%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Van Holten Primary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 61.9%; this one delivers 66.8%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Somerset County indicate median household earnings sit near $140,374, roughly 58% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Somerset County's 84 public schools (combined enrollment of about 51,276 students), Van Holten Primary School is one campus in the mix.

Eisenhower Intermediate School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Van Holten Primary School comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 59.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 25%: 416 students in 2018 compared to 311 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 68% to 52% across the same window.

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