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Peddie School

Hightstown · NJ · Private independent

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📖21 AP courses 📝SAT 1410 avg 🏅8 National Merit Semifinalists

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Programs & features
  • 📚 21 AP courses offered (school profile)
  • 🏆 8 National Merit Semifinalists last year
Academic signals
  • 📝 SAT avg 1410 (25-75: 1350–1480)
  • 📝 ACT avg 31.5 (25-75: 30–33)
  • 📚 AP exam pass rate 87.0% (avg score 4.2)

Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, the school's own published profile, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.

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How Peddie School compares for families

Among the academically strongest private schools in our database.

  • NationallySAT mean 1410 (≈ top 4% of US test-takers) · ACT mean 31.5 (≈ top 7%) · 87% AP pass rate (US average: ~60%) · 8 National Merit Semifinalists last year (NMSF is the top 1% of US PSAT scorers).
  • LocallyNJ students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+12 points).
  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Scicore Academy, Scicore Academy, Hightstown High School and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

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Enrollment trend & projection

Total enrollment went from 551 in 2018 to 532 in 2022 — over 4 years.
-3.4%
Why only 3 data points?

Private school enrollment comes from the NCES Private School Universe Survey (PSS), which is collected every other year — not annually like public-school data. The most recent published collection is 2021–22; NCES targeted spring 2026 for the 2023–24 release — we'll load it as soon as it's published.

For a more current snapshot, see Peddie School's own published school profile (as of 2024-25): www.peddie.org/admission/school-profile ↗

If the recent trend holds…

At its recent rate of -0.9%/year, projecting from 2022's 532 students:

2023
527
2025
518
2027
509

≈ 23 fewer students by 2027 — a real revenue/relevance risk worth getting ahead of.

An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.

Revenue at risk

At tuition per student, the 23 students projected to be lost by 2027 represent ≈ $368,000/year in tuition at risk.

Tuition is an editable estimate (PSS doesn't publish tuition) — set it to your school's figure.

Nearby high schools — the local competition

The closest high schools families here also consider, and where their enrollment is heading.

SchoolTypeMilesHS enrollmentTrend
Scicore Academy
Hightstown
Private 0.4 111
Scicore Academy
Hightstown
Private 0.4 111 +18.1%
Hightstown High School
HIGHTSTOWN
Public 0.5 1,616 +0.3%
Robbinsville High School
ROBBINSVILLE
Public 5.3 1,046 -2.4%
West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North
PLAINSBORO
Public 5.6 1,510 +2.9%
West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South
West Windsor
Public 5.7 1,627 +0.9%
Monroe Township High School
MONROE TOWNSHIP
Public 6.3 2,583 +3.4%
MCVS Assunpink Shared Time Center/Rubino
Trenton
Public 7.0 96

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