Yardville Elementary School

Located at 450 YARDVILLE ALLENTOWN RD, in HAMILTON, New Jersey, Yardville Elementary School is a small elementary school that enrolls 312 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by Hamilton Township Public School District. That puts it 23% leaner than the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 405 students.

Within Hamilton Township Public School District, which oversees 23 schools and 12,355 students, Yardville Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Yardville Elementary School records that White students make up the majority at 68%. The remainder looks like 19% Hispanic, 8% Black, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 46% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting Yardville Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 21% of students at Yardville Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Mercer County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Yardville Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.4%, the actual is 56.6%, a residual of +2.2 points.

In the broader community, Mercer County reports that median household earnings sit near $100,645, about 45% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Yardville Elementary School is one of 110 public schools in Mercer County (combined enrollment of about 58,647 students).

The closest other public school is Sunnybrae Elementary School, roughly 0.9 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Yardville Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 35.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Yardville Elementary School has expanded 9%, going from 285 students in 2018 to 312 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 3% to 8% across the same window.

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