West End School

West End School, a moderately sized elementary campus in North Plainfield, New Jersey, operated by North Plainfield School District, enrolls 600 students, covering grades pre-K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 48% larger than the state mean of about 405.

Across the 6 schools in North Plainfield School District (3,487 students total), West End School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, West End School logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 67%. Beyond that, the school lists 21% Black, 7% White, 3% Asian, 2% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 18%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.8:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 76% of students at West End School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Somerset County runs at roughly 28%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), West End School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 24.6%, the actual is 29.3%, a residual of +4.8 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Somerset County shows the typical household earns roughly $140,374 per year, 58% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Somerset County's 84 public schools (combined enrollment of about 51,276 students), West End School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: North Plainfield Middle School, around 0.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, West End School comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 24.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at West End School has expanded 18%, going from 509 students in 2018 to 600 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 19% to 7%. Class-load math has widened: from 10.4:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 in 2025.

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