NCES CCD 2024-25 8 schools NJ

Best-Resourced Schools in North Brunswick, NJ

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8 public K-12 schools in North 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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8
Schools
5,705
Students
39.5/100
Avg Resource Index
9.7:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, North Brunswick has more public-school enrollment than 61% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. North 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.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

5 of North Brunswick's 8 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

North Brunswick lists only 8 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 106 to 1,876 students, a 18-fold range. In a portfolio this compact, the smallest record may be a specialized or nonstandard setting rather than a miniature version of the largest campus. That distinction affects how ratios and program fields should be read. Compare similarly configured grade levels first; combining the extremes into one city average conceals more than it explains.

City enrollment
Top 39%
School count
Top 54%
Resource Index average
43rd percentile
Teacher staffing
99th percentile

North Brunswick Township High School accounts for 32.9% of all North Brunswick public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means North 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

North Brunswick school enrollment varies 18× across entities

North Brunswick school enrollment ranges from 106 students (lowest) to 1,876 students (highest), a spread of 1,770 students. That spread reflects typical urban portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. 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

North Brunswick operates one school district — a single-district system

North Brunswick'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

North Brunswick student-teacher ratio is 9.7:1 — 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. North Brunswick Twp Early Childhood Center 47
2. North Brunswick Twp. Middle School 46
3. Linwood School 44
4. North Brunswick Township High School 40
5. Arthur M. Judd 37
6. Parsons 34
7. John Adams 34
8. Livingston Park 34

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in North 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 North Brunswick Twp Early Childhood Center 75.9/100
  2. 2 John Adams 74.8/100
  3. 3 Arthur M. Judd 73.5/100
  4. 4 North Brunswick Township High School 70.5/100
  5. 5 Linwood School 69.2/100

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

North Brunswick Twp Early Childhood Center has the highest Resource Investment Index among the North Brunswick schools in this federal-data comparison at 47/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in North Brunswick, NJ? ▼

North Brunswick has 8 public schools with a total enrollment of 5,705 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 9.7:1.

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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.