Schools in Zip Code 08536

Schools in ZIP code 08536 include five schools in the West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District: three elementary schools, one middle school and one high school serving PK through grade 12, with enrollments from 334 to 1,510. The strongest overall warning for parents is that even a generally high-performing school can have a major subject-specific weakness: Community Middle School had just 3% proficiency in grade 8 math in 2025–2026, compared with 23% statewide.

Community Middle School stands out at the top in SchoolDigger’s latest rankings, at the 91st percentile among New Jersey middle schools; its grade 6 and 7 math results were 79% and 67%, versus state rates of 40% and 38%. In the shared tested elementary grade, J.V.B. Wicoff Elementary School outscored Millstone River School by 24 percentage points in grade 3 ELA and 14 points in math. SchoolDigger ranks Wicoff at the 82nd percentile, Millstone River at the 74th and West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North at the 71st. High School North has sharply different results by subject: grade 9 Geometry was 97%, 47 points above the state, while Algebra II was 22%, 31 points below it.

Across five matched school-grade comparisons, results averaged 21 percentage points above the state in ELA and 15 points above in math, but the overall advantage weakened over time: across 24 matched tests, the average change in the state gap was a drop of about 3 points from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026. Wicoff’s grade 3 ELA result fell from 80% to 67%, while Community Middle School’s grade 8 math result fell from 11% to 3%. Class-size and attendance figures offer another point of comparison: in 2024–2025, Town Center Elementary School had the lowest student–teacher ratio, 7.9, but the highest chronic absenteeism, 16%; Wicoff’s ratio was 13.4 and Millstone River’s was 9.2. Free/reduced lunch eligible shares that year were 8% at Wicoff and 11% at Millstone River; these are context, not explanations for test results. Town Center has no test scores in the supplied data, and year-to-year changes compare different student groups.