Summary
George E. Wilson Elementary School serves pre-K through grade 5 and enrolls 545 students in Hamilton, New Jersey, within the Hamilton Township Public School District. The most important takeaway is that its 2025–2026 test results were below both district and state results in every reported subject and grade.
Compared with nearby schools, Wilson’s results are mixed by grade, but its overall subject averages are lower. In 2025–2026, its average proficiency was 23% in ELA, 18% in math, and 8% in grade 5 science; the averages for five nearby schools in the district were 30%, 23%, and 12%, respectively. Wilson’s grade 5 math is a local bright spot: 25% were proficient, the highest result among the six schools, though that remained below the district’s 31% and the state’s 46%. Across all tested grades, math is furthest below the state, while science has the smallest gap relative to the district, state, and nearby-school averages; its low proficiency means this is a relative strength, not a high result.
Math has improved over time, while ELA has been nearly flat: Wilson’s average math proficiency rose from 10% in 2022–2023 to 18% in 2025–2026, an 8-point increase, while ELA slipped from 24% to 23%. Science rose from 7% to 8% over those years, but fell from 11% in 2024–2025 to 8% in the latest results. SchoolDigger gives Wilson an overall statewide ranking at the 9th percentile and 0 stars in 2025–2026; it was at the 7th percentile in each of the prior two years. SchoolDigger’s statewide effectiveness ranking for African American students stands out at the 63rd percentile, compared with the school’s 9th-percentile overall ranking; its ranking for special education students is at the 27th percentile. Wilson is also the largest nearby school with reported enrollment, and its 14.2 student-teacher ratio in 2024–2025 is higher than other nearby reported ratios. In that same school year, 84% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible.
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