Violence, drugs and bullying in all NJ schools: Somerset County

Public schools in Somerset County experienced a slight increase in reports of bullying and illegal drug use since the year before the pandemic.

Somerset County schools reported 11% more drug incidents in the 2021-22 school year than in the 2018-19 school year, a New Jersey 101.5 analysis of Department of Education data shows.

Reports of bullying climbed by 1%.

Violent incidents, however, declined by 15%.

At the same time, schools in New Jersey have been recording an annual decline in enrollment.

In the county, the school with the highest rate of all incidents was The Career Center of the Somerset County Educational Services Commission.

The data is based on the annual School Performance Reports for the 2021-22 school year. All the schools in the county are listed below listed alphabetically in order of school district.

Somerset County schools — Bullying, violence and drug rates

Bedminster Township Public School
Bedminster Township Public School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 0.41 — (Total incidents: 2)
Violence rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)
Drug rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)

Cedar Hill School
Bernards Township School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 0.19 — (Total incidents: 1)
Violence rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)
Drug rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)

Liberty Corner School
Bernards Township School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 0.66 — (Total incidents: 3)
Violence rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)
Drug rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)

Oak Street School
Bernards Township School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 0.24 — (Total incidents: 1)
Violence rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)
Drug rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)

Ridge High School
Bernards Township School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 0.12 — (Total incidents: 2)
Violence rate: 0.23 — (Total incidents: 4)
Drug rate: 0.06 — (Total incidents: 1)

William Annin Middle School
Bernards Township School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 0.88 — (Total incidents: 10)
Violence rate: 0.18 — (Total incidents: 2)
Drug rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)

Bound Brook High School
Bound Brook School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 01.62 — (Total incidents: 11)
Violence rate: 01.77 — (Total incidents: 12)
Drug rate: 02.80 — (Total incidents: 19)

Community Middle School
Bound Brook School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 03.40 — (Total incidents: 10)
Violence rate: 02.04 — (Total incidents: 6)
Drug rate: 0.68 — (Total incidents: 2)

Lafayette Elementary School
Bound Brook School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)
Violence rate: 01.98 — (Total incidents: 5)
Drug rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)

Smalley Elementary School
Bound Brook School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 01.99 — (Total incidents: 11)
Violence rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)
Drug rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)

Branchburg Central Middle School
Branchburg Township School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 01.16 — (Total incidents: 5)
Violence rate: 0.23 — (Total incidents: 1)
Drug rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)

Stony Brook School
Branchburg Township School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 0.69 — (Total incidents: 2)
Violence rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)
Drug rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)

Bridgewater-Raritan High School
Bridgewater-Raritan Regional School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 0.90 — (Total incidents: 24)
Violence rate: 0.75 — (Total incidents: 20)
Drug rate: 02.13 — (Total incidents: 57)

Bridgewater-Raritan Middle School
Bridgewater-Raritan Regional School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 0.93 — (Total incidents: 13)
Violence rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)
Drug rate: 0.07 — (Total incidents: 1)

Crim Primary School
Bridgewater-Raritan Regional School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)
Violence rate: 0.51 — (Total incidents: 2)
Drug rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)

Eisenhower Intermediate School
Bridgewater-Raritan Regional School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 0.15 — (Total incidents: 1)
Violence rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)
Drug rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)

Hamilton Primary School
Bridgewater-Raritan Regional School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)
Violence rate: 0.41 — (Total incidents: 2)
Drug rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)

Hillside Intermediate School
Bridgewater-Raritan Regional School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 02.93 — (Total incidents: 16)
Violence rate: 03.85 — (Total incidents: 21)
Drug rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)

Claremont Elementary School
Franklin Township Public School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)
Violence rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)
Drug rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)

Conerly Road School
Franklin Township Public School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 0.32 — (Total incidents: 1)
Violence rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)
Drug rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)

Franklin High School
Franklin Township Public School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 0.09 — (Total incidents: 2)
Violence rate: 0.41 — (Total incidents: 9)
Drug rate: 02.89 — (Total incidents: 63)

Franklin Middle School at Hamilton Street Campus
Franklin Township Public School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 0.27 — (Total incidents: 2)
Violence rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)
Drug rate: 0.68 — (Total incidents: 5)

Franklin Middle School at Sampson G. Smith Campus
Franklin Township Public School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 02.02 — (Total incidents: 14)
Violence rate: 0.29 — (Total incidents: 2)
Drug rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)

Franklin Park School
Franklin Township Public School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)
Violence rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)
Drug rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)

Hillcrest School
Franklin Township Public School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 0.86 — (Total incidents: 4)
Violence rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)
Drug rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)

Green Brook Middle School
Green Brook Township Public School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 01.40 — (Total incidents: 5)
Violence rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)
Drug rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)

Auten Road Intermediate School
Hillsborough Township Public School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)
Violence rate: 0.68 — (Total incidents: 8)
Drug rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)

Hillsborough High School
Hillsborough Township Public School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 0.09 — (Total incidents: 2)
Violence rate: 0.52 — (Total incidents: 12)
Drug rate: 01.25 — (Total incidents: 29)

Hillsborough Township Elementary School
Hillsborough Township Public School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 0.40 — (Total incidents: 2)
Violence rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)
Drug rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)

Hillsborough Township Middle School
Hillsborough Township Public School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)
Violence rate: 0.24 — (Total incidents: 3)
Drug rate: 0.33 — (Total incidents: 4)

Sunnymead Elementary School
Hillsborough Township Public School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)
Violence rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)
Drug rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)

Woodfern Elementary School
Hillsborough Township Public School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 0.29 — (Total incidents: 1)
Violence rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)
Drug rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)

Woods Road Elementary School
Hillsborough Township Public School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 0.23 — (Total incidents: 1)
Violence rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)
Drug rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)

Alexander Batcho Intermediate School
Manville School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)
Violence rate: 01.48 — (Total incidents: 7)
Drug rate: 0.21 — (Total incidents: 1)

Manville High School
Manville School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)
Violence rate: 01.52 — (Total incidents: 7)
Drug rate: 01.74 — (Total incidents: 8)

Roosevelt School
Manville School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 01.26 — (Total incidents: 3)
Violence rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)
Drug rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)

Montgomery High School
Montgomery Township School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 0.06 — (Total incidents: 1)
Violence rate: 0.19 — (Total incidents: 3)
Drug rate: 0.45 — (Total incidents: 7)

Montgomery Lower Middle School
Montgomery Township School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 0.55 — (Total incidents: 4)
Violence rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)
Drug rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)

Montgomery Upper Middle School
Montgomery Township School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 0.47 — (Total incidents: 4)
Violence rate: 0.24 — (Total incidents: 2)
Drug rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)

Village Elementary School
Montgomery Township School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 0.62 — (Total incidents: 4)
Violence rate: 0.15 — (Total incidents: 1)
Drug rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)

East End School
North Plainfield School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 0.40 — (Total incidents: 2)
Violence rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)
Drug rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)

North Plainfield High School
North Plainfield School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 0.42 — (Total incidents: 5)
Violence rate: 01.95 — (Total incidents: 23)
Drug rate: 01.36 — (Total incidents: 16)

North Plainfield Middle School
North Plainfield School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 04.20 — (Total incidents: 22)
Violence rate: 0.76 — (Total incidents: 4)
Drug rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)

Somerset School
North Plainfield School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 03.25 — (Total incidents: 15)
Violence rate: 0.87 — (Total incidents: 4)
Drug rate: 0.65 — (Total incidents: 3)

West End School
North Plainfield School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 0.19 — (Total incidents: 1)
Violence rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)
Drug rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)

Somerset Elementary Academy
Somerset County Educational Services Commission School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)
Violence rate: 41.67 — (Total incidents: 20)
Drug rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)

Somerset Secondary Academy
Somerset County Educational Services Commission School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)
Violence rate: 29.01 — (Total incidents: 19)
Drug rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)

The Career Center of the SCESC
Somerset County Educational Services Commission School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)
Violence rate: 90.0 — (Total incidents: 9)
Drug rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)

Somerset County Vocational Technical High School
Somerset County Vocational and Technical School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 0.42 — (Total incidents: 2)
Violence rate: 01.05 — (Total incidents: 5)
Drug rate: 02.32 — (Total incidents: 11)

Bernards High School
Somerset Hills Regional School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 0.38 — (Total incidents: 3)
Violence rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)
Drug rate: 0.50 — (Total incidents: 4)

Bernardsville Middle School
Somerset Hills Regional School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 01.48 — (Total incidents: 7)
Violence rate: 02.12 — (Total incidents: 10)
Drug rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)

Somerville High School
Somerville Public School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 0.64 — (Total incidents: 7)
Violence rate: 01.82 — (Total incidents: 20)
Drug rate: 02.82 — (Total incidents: 31)

Somerville Middle School
Somerville Public School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 01.27 — (Total incidents: 4)
Violence rate: 03.18 — (Total incidents: 10)
Drug rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)

Van Derveer Elementary School
Somerville Public School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 0.82 — (Total incidents: 6)
Violence rate: 01.64 — (Total incidents: 12)
Drug rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)

Robert Morris School
South Bound Brook Public School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 0.69 — (Total incidents: 3)
Violence rate: 01.83 — (Total incidents: 8)
Drug rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)

Angelo L. Tomaso School
Warren Township School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)
Violence rate: 0.77 — (Total incidents: 2)
Drug rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)

Central School
Warren Township School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 0.32 — (Total incidents: 1)
Violence rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)
Drug rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)

Mt. Horeb School
Warren Township School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 0.45 — (Total incidents: 1)
Violence rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)
Drug rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)

Warren Middle School
Warren Township School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 01.53 — (Total incidents: 8)
Violence rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)
Drug rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)

Woodland School
Warren Township School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 0.40 — (Total incidents: 1)
Violence rate: 0.81 — (Total incidents: 2)
Drug rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)

Bayberry School
Watchung Borough School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 01.59 — (Total incidents: 6)
Violence rate: 0.26 — (Total incidents: 1)
Drug rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)

Valley View School
Watchung Borough School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 01.17 — (Total incidents: 3)
Violence rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)
Drug rate: 0.0 — (Total incidents: 0)

Watchung Hills Regional High School
Watchung Hills Regional High School District
(Somerset)
Bullying rate: 0.17 — (Total incidents: 3)
Violence rate: 0.22 — (Total incidents: 4)
Drug rate: 0.94 — (Total incidents: 17)