Summary:
Six schools in the East Windsor Regional School District serve ZIP code 08520, spanning two K–2 schools, other elementary grades, middle school and high school; enrollment ranges from 510 to 1,616 students and averages 834. Only four schools have test-score results in the supplied data. The clearest achievement pattern is that elementary math is around or above state levels, while elementary ELA is below: across six grade-by-school comparisons, math averaged about level with the state, but ELA averaged 6 points lower.
Grace N. Rogers Elementary stands out in current math, leading Perry L. Drew Elementary by 8 points in grade 3, 1 point in grade 4 and 6 points in grade 5. Rogers was also above the state in grade 3 math by 11 points and grade 4 by 1 point; Drew was 2 points above in grade 3. Drew leads Rogers in ELA in grades 3 and 4, by 1 and 5 points, while grade 5 is nearly tied; both schools are below state ELA results in all three grades. At Melvin H. Kreps Middle School, advanced-course scores are high—98% in grade 7 Algebra I and 96% in grade 8 Geometry—but regular-grade math is much weaker, including 8% proficiency in grade 8. Hightstown High School is closest to the state in NJGPA ELA, 2 points below it.
Rogers has the strongest broad improvement: its school-to-state gap narrowed in all seven available matched tests from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, including rising grade 5 math from 29% to 43%. Hightstown’s Algebra II result moved sharply the other way, falling from 88% to 36%; its gap changed from 8 points above the state to 17 points below. Across 36 matched comparisons, gaps narrowed in 20 and widened in 16. SchoolDigger’s 2025–2026 statewide percentiles were 44 for Rogers, 43 for Drew, 47 for Kreps and 38 for Hightstown. As context, all six schools report free/reduced lunch eligible for 2024–2025, ranging from 44% to 52%; student–teacher ratios range from 9.3 to 12.1, averaging 10.3.
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