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William L Antheil Elementary School
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Located at 339 EWINGVILLE ROAD, in EWING, New Jersey, William L Antheil Elementary School is a heavily attended elementary-level community that teaches 746 students (grades pre-K through 5), part of Ewing Township School District. Enrollment runs roughly 84% larger than the state mean of about 405.
Within Ewing Township School District, which oversees 5 schools and 3,576 students, William L Antheil Elementary School is one campus in the system.
Looking at the student body, William L Antheil Elementary School lists that the most-represented group is Black (36%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder breaks down as 33% Hispanic, 19% White, 7% multiracial, 5% Asian. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.
On the resource side, On paper, William L Antheil Elementary School has 68 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.0:1. The state averages about 11.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 57% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Mercer County's rate of about 48%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, William L Antheil Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 35.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 29.4%.
In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Mercer County indicate the typical household earns roughly $100,645 per year, about 45% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Mercer County runs 110 public schools (combined enrollment of about 58,647 students), of which William L Antheil Elementary School is one.
Mercer County Technical School Culinary Arts Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around William L Antheil Elementary School. On composite proficiency, William L Antheil Elementary School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 34.7%.
The campus sits in a suburban setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. William L Antheil Elementary School's enrollment has rose 5% since 2018, when it stood at 708 (now 746). Hispanic enrollment moved from 17% to 33% across the same window.
On the community side, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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