NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools NJ

Best-Resourced Schools in Plainsboro, NJ

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

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5
Schools
4,084
Students
58.6/100
Avg Resource Index
10.6:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Plainsboro has more public-school enrollment than 45% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North enrolls 37.0% of Plainsboro's public-school students. That is enough concentration for one institution to pull the citywide enrollment, staffing, and Resource Index averages toward its own profile. The smaller campuses below should therefore be compared directly rather than inferred from the headline mean; their grade configurations and program footprints can be materially different even inside the same district.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

2 of Plainsboro's 5 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.

One district, but meaningful resource variation

Plainsboro'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 18-point gap between West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North and Town Center Elementary School at Plainsboro 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 55%
School count
Top 99%
Resource Index average
98th percentile
Teacher staffing
97th percentile

West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North accounts for 37.0% of all Plainsboro public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Plainsboro-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

Plainsboro school enrollment varies 4.5× across entities

Plainsboro school enrollment ranges from 334 students (lowest) to 1,510 students (highest), a spread of 1,176 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

Plainsboro operates one school district — a single-district system

Plainsboro'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

Plainsboro student-teacher ratio is 10.6:1 — 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. West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North 68
2. Community Middle School 66
3. Millstone River School 57
4. J.V.B. Wicoff Elementary School 52
5. Town Center Elementary School at Plainsboro 50

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Plainsboro

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 Town Center Elementary School at Plainsboro 49.9/100
  2. 2 J.V.B. Wicoff Elementary School 47.0/100
  3. 3 Millstone River School 40.2/100
  4. 4 West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North 39.1/100
  5. 5 Community Middle School 38.6/100

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Which Plainsboro school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Plainsboro 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 Plainsboro, NJ? ▼

Plainsboro has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,084 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 10.6:1.

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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.