Yardville Heights Elementary School

Yardville Heights Elementary School is one of the tight-knit K-5 schools in HAMILTON, New Jersey, run under Hamilton Township Public School District, with 251 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 38% smaller than the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 405 students.

Hamilton Township Public School District runs 23 schools in total, collectively educating 12,355 students. Yardville Heights Elementary School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Yardville Heights Elementary School logs that 41% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder consists of 40% White, 15% Black, 3% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Yardville Heights Elementary School has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.8:1. The state averages about 11.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 60% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Mercer County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Yardville Heights Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.5%, the actual is 46.4%, a residual of +12.9 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Mercer County shows median household income runs about $100,645, roughly 45% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Mercer County's 110 public schools (combined enrollment of about 58,647 students), Yardville Heights Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Sunnybrae Elementary School, roughly 0.7 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Yardville Heights Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 29.8%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 3%: 258 students in 2018 compared to 251 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 31% to 41% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 11.9:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 today.

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