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West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 84 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 75 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 16 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 73% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 63% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New Jersey's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North
West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North operates as a sprawling high school in PLAINSBORO, New Jersey, part of West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District. Current enrollment sits at 1,510 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 63% larger than the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 929 students.
Within West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District, which oversees 10 schools and 8,831 students, West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North is one campus in the system.
Looking at the student body, West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North logs that the largest single group is Asian, at 77% of enrollment. Other groups include 13% White, 4% Black, 4% Hispanic. By comparison, Middlesex County as a whole is about 26% Asian, so the school skews visibly more Asian than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North shows 117 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 6% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Middlesex County (around 42%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.
After controlling for student poverty, West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.7%, the actual is 72.5%, a residual of +9.8 points.
In the broader community, community-level numbers for Middlesex County indicate the typical household earns roughly $111,549 per year, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North is one of 214 public schools in Middlesex County (combined enrollment of about 129,255 students).
Nearest neighbor: Community Middle School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 71.0%.
West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North operates from a rural location.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 4%: 1,448 students in 2018 compared to 1,510 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment ticked up from 63% to 77% over that span.
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Middlesex County at a glance
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