Princeton Day School

Princeton Day School is a private coeducational day school located in Princeton, in Mercer County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, serving students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade. The largest division is the Upper School (grades 9–12), with an enrollment of about 400. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools since 1989.

As of the 2019–20 school year, the school had an enrollment of 933 students, plus 16 in PreK, and 122.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 7.6:1. The school's student body was 81.4% (759) White, 7.6% (71) Asian, 6.8% (63) Hispanic and 4.3% (40) Black.

Of the 2011 graduating class of Princeton Day School seniors, a third were honored as semi-finalists or commended scholars in the National Merit Scholarship Program. In the five years through 2018, the most common schools for members of the PDS graduating classes were New York University (21), Princeton University (15), Lehigh University (12), University of Chicago (11), Duke University (10), and Boston College (10).

The school is a member of the National Association of Independent Schools, New Jersey Association of Independent Schools and the Association of Delaware Valley Independent Schools.

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