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William L Antheil Elementary School
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Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 32 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 29% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 35% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About William L Antheil Elementary School
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.
Mercer County at a glance
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