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Joseph Stokes Elementary School

Trenton · Mercer County · Elementary school
Grades K–3
Updated June 2026

Enrollment, by grade

In 2025-26 it enrolled 309 students across grades K–3. Enrollment has been roughly steady since 2022-23 (306). It peaked at 347 in 2024-25. Its biggest cohort is grade 2.

students 0100200300400321K1998200320082013201820232025

Students enrolled in each grade each fall, stacked to the total — so the top edge is total enrollment. Bands run from the lowest grade (light) to the highest (dark); a band that appears or disappears is a grade the school added or dropped. “Other” is students with no grade level (mostly special education), so the bands always sum to total. Source: NJDOE Fall Enrollment.

What the school looks like

The largest group in both 2022-23 and 2025-26 was Black students — 65% then, 48% now.

% of students 050100race categories: 5 → 745%48%1998200320082013201820232025
WhiteBlackHispanicAsianTwo or more

Each group’s share of enrollment over time, or its head count — toggle above. New Jersey expanded race and ethnicity reporting from five to seven categories in 2006-07 (dashed line), so “two or more races” appears only after; Asian here includes Pacific Islander. Source: NJDOE Fall Enrollment.

How much the mix changed

Between 2022-23 and 2025-26 the makeup of this school changed substantially.

That’s the third-largest shift among the district’s 19 elementary schools — larger than 97% of Mercer County elementary schools. The district as a whole shifted just 4.1 over the same years, making this school an outlier. The biggest moves, in percentage points:
Black −17.5·Hispanic +11.7·Two or more +5.2

The index is half the sum of every group’s change in share, on a 0–100 scale (how it works). Compare any two years in the explorer →

Free or reduced-price lunch

In 2025-26, 61.8% of students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch.

% eligible 05010069.9%61.8%59.4%20222025
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Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals. The lighter lines show the district overall and the district elementary schools, for comparison. Not reported by the state in some years (shaded). Since 2014, some districts provide free meals to all students regardless of household income, which can lift the eligible share. Source: NJDOE Fall Enrollment.

Test scores

On the NJSLA — New Jersey’s state test — here is how students have scored over recent years and by grade. (New Jersey reports student-growth scores only through grade 8, so they are not available for high schools.)

1 · did not meet2 · partially met3 · approached4 · met5 · exceeded

English language arts: results for 2024-25 (state 53%).

By grade, year to year

Each panel is one grade — watch its mix of levels shift across 2021–2024.

Grade 3
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Math: results for 2024-25 (state 42%).

By grade, year to year

Each panel is one grade — watch its mix of levels shift across 2021–2024.

Grade 3
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In each panel the flat line is the proficiency boundary: levels 4–5 (met or exceeded) fill the area above it, levels 1–3 below — so a smaller reported share in levels 4–5 makes the area above the line shrink (it isn’t a misleading upward slope). Light = level 1 (did not yet meet expectations), dark = level 5 (exceeded); the % marks the proficient share at the first and last points. The first set of panels follows each grade across the years; the second lines up aggregate grade results one grade higher each year. It approximates a class cohort, not linked individual students. Growth is the median Student Growth Percentile (50 = a typical year), reported only through grade 8. The NJSLA was not given in spring 2020 and was disrupted the next year. Source: NJ School Performance Reports.

Chronic absenteeism

In 2024-25, 47.5% of students were chronically absent — missing at least 10% of school days — down from 52.9% in 2022-23.

% chronically absent 03060notreported47.5%43%14.4%2021202220232024
This schooldistrict overallNew Jersey

Chronic absenteeism — the share of students who missed 10% or more of the days they were enrolled (roughly 18 days across a full school year). The lighter lines show the district overall and New Jersey, for comparison. Source: NJ School Performance Reports, 2024-25.

Profile built from New Jersey Department of Education Fall Enrollment data, 1998-99 through 2025-26. How this data works →