Peddie School

Hightstown · NJ · Private independent

Private

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19 AP courses 8 National Merit Semifinalists

At a glance

Programs & features

19 AP courses offered (school profile)
8 National Merit Semifinalists (2024)

Academic signals

ACT avg 30

Composed from the school's own published profile (2024), 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.

▸ NationallyACT mean 30.0 (≈ top 10%) · 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, Fusion Academy Princeton and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

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Your state's public flagship

Rutgers University-New Brunswick

65%

admit rate

$17,929

in-state tuition/yr · $37,441 out-of-state

1270–1480

SAT 25–75 · ACT 28–33

The in-state tuition gap is the flagship's biggest draw — most in-state families pay far less than the out-of-state sticker. Average net price after aid runs about $24,406/yr. Admission odds depend on your student's GPA and test scores, not which high school they attend.

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Source: IPEDS admissions, tuition & enrollment + College Scorecard net price. Flagship = the state's primary public research university.

Their published matriculation list

Where the Classes of 2022-2024 enrolled

Peddie School publishes where its graduates enrolled. What follows is copied from that document — 90 colleges, in the document's own order.

American University Amherst College Arizona State University Babson College Barnard College Boston College Brown University Bryant University Bryn Mawr College Bucknell University Carnegie Mellon University Case Western Reserve University Colgate University Colorado College Columbia University Cornell University Dartmouth College Dickinson College Drexel University Duke University Elon University Emerson College Emory University George Washington University Georgetown University Georgia Institute of Technology Gettysburg College Grinnell College Hamilton College Harvard University

and 60 more

Haverford College Hobart and William Smith Colleges Howard University Indiana University Ithaca College Johns Hopkins University Lafayette College Lehigh University Middlebury College New York University Northeastern University Northwestern University Oberlin College Pitzer College Pomona College Princeton University Purdue University Quinnipiac University Rice University Rider University Rutgers University Skidmore College Stevens Institute of Technology Swarthmore College Syracuse University Temple University The College of New Jersey The University of Tampa Tufts University Tulane University of Louisiana Union College United States Air Force Academy United States Military Academy at West Point United States Naval Academy University of California (Berkeley) University of California (Davis) University of California (Los Angeles) University of California (San Diego) University of California (Santa Barbara) University of Chicago University of Georgia University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign University of Miami University of Michigan University of Notre Dame University of Pennsylvania University of Pittsburgh University of Rochester University of Southern California University of St Andrews University of Toronto University of Virginia Ursinus College Villanova University Wake Forest University Washington University in St. Louis Wesleyan University William & Mary Williams College Yale University

These graduates went on to the colleges above.

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Independently verified As published by Peddie School — School Profile 2024–2025 — The Peddie School ↗. Found at: p.2, 'Matriculation to Colleges and Universities'.

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): peddie.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Peddie-Coll… ↗

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.

Most similar nearby high schools

The schools most like this one — same type, blended on distance and size — and where their enrollment is heading. These are the schools families here weigh against each other.

School	Type	Miles	HS enrollment	Trend
Scicore Academy Hightstown	Private	0.4	111	—
Scicore Academy Hightstown	Private	0.4	111	+18.1%
Fusion Academy Princeton Princeton	Private	7.7	42	—
Sage Day Princeton Rochelle Park	Private	8.1	12	—
The Hun School of Princeton Princeton	Private	9.8	669	+3.9%
Princeton International Schl Of Math And Science Princeton	Private	10.3	117	—
Princeton Day School Princeton	Private	11.0	941	-1.8%
The Lawrenceville School Lawrenceville	Private	11.0	818	+0.1%

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