Jamesburg, NJ schools
Jamesburg’s public schools score well below New Jersey’s averages: 34% of students are proficient in reading against 47.3% statewide. Kids attend John F. Kennedy Elementary School through grade 5, then Grace M. Breckwedel Middle School.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
Jamesburg’s School Grade: C-
The public schools Jamesburg’s kids attend trail 78% of New Jersey’s districts on state tests. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on New Jersey’s state tests, each against the state average. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of New Jersey only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
- Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in New Jersey with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
Where Jamesburg kids go to school
Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Well below the state in reading
The district serving Jamesburg
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Colleges near Jamesburg
There’s no college in Jamesburg, but 40 colleges are within 30 miles. The closest is Chamberlain University-New Jersey in North Brunswick, 8.1 miles away.
30 more within 30 miles.
Straight-line distance from the center of Jamesburg. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus. Colleges marked › have their own page; the others are too small or don’t report enough to the Department of Education for one.
All 2 schools in Jamesburg
School data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.