NCES CCD 2024-25 13 schools NJ

Best-Resourced Schools in New Brunswick, NJ

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

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13
Schools
8,472
Students
43.2/100
Avg Resource Index
10.3:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, New Brunswick has more public-school enrollment than 76% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. New Brunswick sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

New Brunswick's list includes 5 elementary, 1 middle, and 2 high-school campuses, plus 5 combined-grade records. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

New Brunswick's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 61st percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 98th percentile. The 37-point percentile gap is a reminder that the index is not a class-size score: counselors, gifted-program reporting, and attendance also affect it. Compare those components directly when two schools have similar index totals; the same headline score can arise from a different mix of reported resources.

City enrollment
Top 24%
School count
Top 28%
Resource Index average
61st percentile
Teacher staffing
98th percentile

New Brunswick High School accounts for 28.8% of all New Brunswick public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means New Brunswick-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

New Brunswick school enrollment varies 29× across entities

New Brunswick school enrollment ranges from 85 students (lowest) to 2,443 students (highest), a spread of 2,358 students. That spread is wider than typical and predicts noticeable gaps in service quality between the highest and lowest areas. 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

New Brunswick reports 72.1% free-lunch eligibility

The reported share sits between 62.5% and 75%, above a simple majority but below the highest descriptive band used here. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

New Brunswick student-teacher ratio is 10.3:1 — 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. New Brunswick Adult High School 76
2. New Brunswick Middle School 53
3. Greater Brunswick Charter School 52
4. New Brunswick High School 49
5. Blanquita B. Valenti Community School 43
6. Livingston Elementary School 41
7. Lincoln Elementary School 39
8. Lord Stirling Elementary School 38
9. Roosevelt Elementary School 37
10. Woodrow Wilson Elementary School 37
11. A Chester Redshaw School 36
12. Paul Robeson Community School for the Arts 33
13. Mckinley Community School 28

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in New Brunswick

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 Woodrow Wilson Elementary School 44.3/100
  2. 2 Mckinley Community School 29.8/100
  3. 3 Greater Brunswick Charter School 14.3/100
  4. 4 Livingston Elementary School 12.7/100
  5. 5 New Brunswick High School 12.2/100

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Which New Brunswick school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

New Brunswick Adult High School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the New Brunswick schools in this federal-data comparison at 76/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in New Brunswick, NJ? ▼

New Brunswick has 13 public schools with a total enrollment of 8,472 students. 1 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 10.3:1.

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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.