NCES CCD 2024-25 9 schools NJ

Best-Resourced Schools in Hillsborough, NJ

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9 public K-12 schools in Hillsborough from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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9
Schools
7,191
Students
58.7/100
Avg Resource Index
11.6:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Broad resource and staffing advantage

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Hillsborough has more public-school enrollment than 70% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Hillsborough lands in the upper national tier on both the average Resource Investment Index and teacher staffing intensity. Those measures come from different inputs: the index combines reported counselors, gifted access, attendance, and staffing, while the staffing percentile compares the city's student-teacher ratio directly. Agreement across both measures is stronger evidence of broad reported capacity than either score alone, though neither is a test-score rating or a guarantee about an individual classroom.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

5 of Hillsborough's 9 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 1 middle and 1 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

One district, but meaningful resource variation

Hillsborough's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 98th percentile among listed cities. Shared governance removes one source of policy variation, but it does not erase campus differences by grade span or enrollment. The 26-point gap between Amsterdam Elementary School and Sunnymead Elementary School measures the remaining local spread. Use the district-level picture for common budget context, then compare the school components to see whether staffing, counseling, gifted-program reporting, or attendance accounts for each campus's position.

City enrollment
Top 30%
School count
Top 46%
Resource Index average
98th percentile
Teacher staffing
91st percentile

Hillsborough High School accounts for 33.1% of all Hillsborough public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Hillsborough-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Hillsborough school enrollment varies 7.6× across entities

Hillsborough school enrollment ranges from 311 students (lowest) to 2,377 students (highest), a spread of 2,066 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Hillsborough operates one school district — a single-district system

Hillsborough's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Hillsborough student-teacher ratio is 11.6:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Amsterdam Elementary School 68
2. Hillsborough High School 64
3. Woodfern Elementary School 63
4. Triangle Elementary School 61
5. Auten Road Intermediate School 60
6. Woods Road Elementary School 60
7. Hillsborough Township Middle School 57
8. Hillsborough Township Elementary School 53
9. Sunnymead Elementary School 42

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Hillsborough

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Sunnymead Elementary School 73.2/100
  2. 2 Hillsborough Township Elementary School 70.8/100
  3. 3 Triangle Elementary School 69.2/100
  4. 4 Amsterdam Elementary School 67.5/100
  5. 5 Hillsborough Township Middle School 67.4/100

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Which Hillsborough school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Amsterdam Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Hillsborough schools in this federal-data comparison at 68/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Hillsborough, NJ? ▼

Hillsborough has 9 public schools with a total enrollment of 7,191 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 11.6:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.