Enrollment
251
Elementary
DISTRICT 328 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HAMILTON TOWNSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340654003132
Yardville Heights Elementary School
3880 SOUTH BROAD STREET, HAMILTON, NJ 08620 · (609) 631-4171 · Mercer County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL251 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 69% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New Jersey public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
10.8:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.2:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
60%
150 students
DISTRICT 54% · STATE 41%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 38 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 39 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 36 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 42 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 42 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 54 | 22% |
This year's kindergarten class (38) is 30% smaller than its 5th grade class (54).
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
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NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
67.1%
NJ avg 53.1% . +12.0pp since 2023
Math
53.3%
NJ avg 41.6% . +11.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 53 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 12 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 12 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 67.1% | 53.3% |
| 2023-24 | 55.1% | 41.8% |
% Meeting or Exceeding Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: NJSLA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
46.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.5%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+12.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 33% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Yardville Heights Elementary School
Yardville Heights Elementary School's state test result (46.4% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yardville Heights Elementary School this school | 251 | 59.8% | 46.4% |
| Elizabeth F. Moore School SEABROOK | 293 | 60.8% | 14.4% |
| Margaret L Vetter EATONTOWN | 232 | 53.4% | 40.6% |
| Joseph S. Stackhouse School BROWNS MILLS | 242 | 57.4% | N/A |
| Roosevelt School #7 GARFIELD | 282 | 59.6% | 51.0% |
| Deerfield Township Elementary School ROSENHAYN | 325 | 52.3% | 24.7% |
Matched among New Jersey elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Yardville Heights Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Mercer County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 46.4% | #610 of 1,290 | #20 of 56 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 53.3% | #526 of 1,319 ▲ 182 | #16 of 56 ▲ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 67.1% | #333 of 1,319 ▲ 237 | #11 of 56 ▲ 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 251 | #1,282 of 1,562 | #52 of 60 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.8:1 | #565 of 1,390 | #19 of 57 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.9% | #325 of 1,392 | #22 of 57 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 59.8% | #463 of 1,481 | #25 of 58 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.7% | #711 of 798 | #26 of 30 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
251
-24 (-9%) vs 2020
+4% since 1990-91, when it was 241
Student : Teacher
10.8:1
was 13.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 251 | 23.3 | 10.8:1 | 60% (150) |
| 2023-24 | 254 | 24.3 | 10.5:1 | 51% (130) |
| 2022-23 | 240 | 24.8 | 9.7:1 | 41% (99) |
| 2020-21 | 275 | 21 | 13.1:1 | 45% (125) |
| 2017-18 | 258 | 21.7 | 11.9:1 | 33% (86) |
| 2015-16 | 252 | 22 | 11.4:1 | 25% (62) |
| 2010-11 | 268 | 16 | 16.8:1 | 22% (59) |
| 2000-01 | 277 | 17 | 16.3:1 | 11% (30) |
| 1990-91 | 241 | 15 | 16.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Yardville Heights Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 3% (258 to 251); teachers up 7% (21.7 to 23.3).
About Yardville Heights Elementary School
Yardville Heights Elementary School is an elementary school in HAMILTON, New Jersey, according to federal school records. It enrolled 251 students in pre-K through 5 for the 2024-25 school year. Statewide, elementary schools in New Jersey average about 405 students each.
Hamilton Township Public School District counts 12,355 students in its 23 schools, and Yardville Heights Elementary School is one of them.
Yardville Heights Elementary School has no majority group; Hispanic students are the largest, at 41%. The rest of enrollment is 40% White, 15% Black, and 3% multiracial. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Mercer County's population at about 23%. Yardville Heights Elementary School's diversity index is 65%, against a US figure of 70%.
Yardville Heights Elementary School employs 23.3 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 10.8:1. For comparison, elementary schools in New Jersey average 11.4:1. Yardville Heights Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch eligibility rate is 60%. Public schools in Mercer County average 48%.
allk12 grades Yardville Heights Elementary School a B+. The grade compares the school only with New Jersey public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
After adjusting for student poverty, Yardville Heights Elementary School lands between the top and bottom 10% of New Jersey schools. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 46.4%; the prediction is 33.5%.
Mercer County has about 385,864 residents, and the median household income is $100,645, about 45% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 7%. In all, Mercer County has 110 public schools and roughly 58,647 students.
The nearest public school is Sunnybrae Elementary School, at about 0.7 miles. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools with test data average 29.8% proficiency; Yardville Heights Elementary School posts 46.4%.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment at Yardville Heights Elementary School dropped 9% between 2020-21 and 2024-25, from 275 to 251 students. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (10.8:1) than in 2020-21 (13.1:1).
Community posts for Yardville Heights Elementary School can cover school safety, transportation, and start times. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
Mercer County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
385,864
Census ACS
Median income
$100,645
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
45%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
110
58,647 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Hamilton Township Public School District
- Hamilton East - SteinertHigh · 1,437 students
- Hamilton West-WatsonHigh · 1,408 students
- Hamilton North - NottinghamHigh · 1,147 students
- Albert E Grice Middle SchoolMiddle · 991 students
- Emily C. Reynolds Middle SchoolMiddle · 966 students
- Richard C Crockett Middle SchoolMiddle · 834 students
Other schools in HAMILTON
- Hamilton East - SteinertHigh · 1,437 students
- Hamilton West-WatsonHigh · 1,408 students
- Hamilton North - NottinghamHigh · 1,147 students
- Albert E Grice Middle SchoolMiddle · 991 students
- Emily C. Reynolds Middle SchoolMiddle · 966 students
- Richard C Crockett Middle SchoolMiddle · 834 students
Nearby schools
- Sunnybrae Elementary School0.7 mi · 278
- Robinson Elementary School0.8 mi · 387
- Albert E Grice Middle School1.1 mi · 991
- McGalliard Elementary School1.4 mi · 294
- Yardville Elementary School1.4 mi · 312
- Kisthardt Elementary School1.6 mi · 250
Frequently asked questions
About Yardville Heights Elementary SchoolHow large is Yardville Heights Elementary School?
Yardville Heights Elementary School enrolls approximately 251 students in grades PK-05.
Is Yardville Heights Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Yardville Heights Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Yardville Heights Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Yardville Heights Elementary School is approximately 10.8:1 (23 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Yardville Heights Elementary School?
Yardville Heights Elementary School reports a student body of 40% White, 41% Hispanic, 15% Black, 1% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees Yardville Heights Elementary School?
Yardville Heights Elementary School is overseen by Hamilton Township Public School District in Mercer County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.