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Hamilton, New Jersey - 4 schools
126
Total Enrollment
4
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Mercer County Special Services School District operates 4 public schools serving 126 students, placing it among the smallest districts in New Jersey. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 high, 1 elementary, 1 combined schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Mercer County.
The funding mix is 81.3% local, 16.0% state, and 2.7% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
a 39:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, . Demographically, the student body averages 40.4% African American, 35.0% Hispanic or Latino, 13.9% White across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Mercer High School, with a diversity index of 70.0/100.
Its largest campus is Mercer High School, enrolling 200 students (46% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Regional Day School, at 1 students, a 200x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Mercer High School accounts for 45.6% of all Mercer County Special Services School District student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Mercer County Special Services School District a distant remainder — means Mercer County Special Services School District-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: high. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Mercer County Special Services School District school enrollment varies 200× across entities
Mercer County Special Services School District school enrollment ranges from 1 students (lowest) to 200 students (highest), a spread of 199 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Mercer County Special Services School District student-counselor ratio is 39:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Values this far below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.
Comparisons are relative to Mercer County Special Services School District's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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How many schools are in Mercer County Special Services School District?
Mercer County Special Services School District has 4 schools, including 2 high, 1 elementary, 1 combined. Total enrollment is 126 students.
What is the demographic composition of Mercer County Special Services School District?
Mercer County Special Services School District students are 40.4% African American, 35.0% Hispanic or Latino, 13.9% White, 8.0% Asian, averaged across 4 schools. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.