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Enrollment
793
Elementary
DISTRICT 639 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ELIZABETH PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 340459005508
Abraham Lincoln School No. 14
50 Grove Street, ELIZABETH, NJ 07202 · (908) 436-5828 · Union County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL793 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 35% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New Jersey public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.1:1
66 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.5:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
84%
670 students
DISTRICT 83% · STATE 41%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 106 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 99 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 70 | 9% |
| Grade 3 | 79 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 82 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 86 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 92 | 12% |
| Grade 7 | 87 | 11% |
| Grade 8 | 92 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (106) is 15% larger than its 8th grade class (92).
Student demographics
32%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 38% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
36.5%
NJ avg 53.1% . -1.6pp since 2023
Math
22.8%
NJ avg 41.6% . +2.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 23 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 36.5% | 22.8% |
| 2023-24 | 38.1% | 19.9% |
% Meeting or Exceeding Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: NJSLA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
25.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
19.9%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 25% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 20% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New Jersey's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Abraham Lincoln School No. 14
Abraham Lincoln School No. 14's state test result (25.4% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abraham Lincoln School No. 14 this school | 793 | 84.5% | 25.4% |
| Joseph Battin School No 4 ELIZABETH | 757 | 85.2% | 28.5% |
| Dr. Albert Einstein Academy School No. 29 ELIZABETH | 785 | 84.5% | 38.2% |
| John P. Holland Charter School Woodland | 787 | 86.0% | 34.9% |
| Roberto Clemente Elementary School NEWARK | 742 | 86.7% | 21.2% |
| Park Elementary School Newark | 747 | 82.7% | 39.7% |
Matched among New Jersey elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Abraham Lincoln School No. 14 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Union County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 25.4% | #1,042 of 1,290 | #67 of 92 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 22.8% | #1,102 of 1,319 ▼ 8 | #66 of 93 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 36.5% | #1,000 of 1,319 ▼ 78 | #61 of 93 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 793 | #57 of 1,562 | #7 of 108 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.1:1 | #910 of 1,390 | #51 of 103 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 31.8% | #1,207 of 1,392 | #87 of 103 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 84.5% | #137 of 1,481 | #18 of 105 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.5% | #593 of 798 | #37 of 58 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
793
-67 (-8%) vs 2020
+14% since 1990-91, when it was 693
Student : Teacher
12.1:1
was 11.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 793 | 65.5 | 12.1:1 | 84% (670) |
| 2023-24 | 786 | 68.5 | 11.5:1 | 84% (659) |
| 2022-23 | 840 | 73.5 | 11.4:1 | 83% (698) |
| 2020-21 | 860 | 76 | 11.3:1 | 76% (655) |
| 2017-18 | 839 | 64.5 | 13.0:1 | 80% (668) |
| 2015-16 | 840 | 65 | 12.9:1 | 85% (717) |
| 2010-11 | 762 | 53 | 14.4:1 | 86% (652) |
| 2000-01 | 998 | 63 | 15.8:1 | 76% (758) |
| 1990-91 | 693 | 36 | 19.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Abraham Lincoln School No. 14.
Since 2017-18: students down 5% (839 to 793); teachers up 2% (64.5 to 65.5).
About Abraham Lincoln School No. 14
Abraham Lincoln School No. 14 is a high-enrollment elementary school with its address in ELIZABETH, New Jersey. The school enrolls 793 students, from kindergarten through 8. An average school in this group (elementary schools in New Jersey) has about 405 students.
Elizabeth Public Schools enrolls 27,580 students, and its 37 schools include Abraham Lincoln School No. 14.
About 82% of the student body at Abraham Lincoln School No. 14 is Hispanic. Other reported shares: 10% Black, 6% White, and 2% Asian. That compares with about 35% Hispanic among all Union County residents. Pick two students at random and there is a 32% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
A ratio of 12.1:1 comes from the school's 65.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. That matches the 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey fairly closely. The lunch program counts 84% of students at Abraham Lincoln School No. 14 as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. Compared with the 52% average for public schools in Union County, the school's rate is higher.
Abraham Lincoln School No. 14 is graded C+ by allk12, scoring above 35% of New Jersey public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, Abraham Lincoln School No. 14 would be expected to post about 19.9%. Its actual average proficiency rate on state tests is 25.4%.
In the county around the school, Union County, the median household income is $103,202, about 39% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. Union County is home to 180 public schools and about 99,046 public school students.
The nearest other public school, Dr. Orlando Edreira Academy School No. 26, is about 0.5 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 26.8%; Abraham Lincoln School No. 14's is 25.4%, ranking 6th of 8.
Abraham Lincoln School No. 14 is coded as Suburb: Large in federal locale data.
2024-25 enrollment was 793, an 8% decrease from 860 in 2020-21.
Conversations here can range across school safety, transportation, and start times. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Union County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
579,290
Census ACS
Median income
$103,202
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
180
99,046 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Elizabeth Public Schools
- John E. Dwyer Technology AcademyHigh · 1,348 students
- Admiral William F. Halsey Jr. Health & Public Safety AcademyHigh · 1,272 students
- Elizabeth High School - Frank J Cicarell AcademyHigh · 1,268 students
- Thomas Jefferson Arts AcademyHigh · 1,144 students
- William F. Halloran School No.22Middle · 1,140 students
- Terence C. Reilly School No 7Middle · 1,130 students
Other schools in ELIZABETH
- John E. Dwyer Technology AcademyHigh · 1,348 students
- Admiral William F. Halsey Jr. Health & Public Safety AcademyHigh · 1,272 students
- Elizabeth High School - Frank J Cicarell AcademyHigh · 1,268 students
- Thomas Jefferson Arts AcademyHigh · 1,144 students
- William F. Halloran School No.22Middle · 1,140 students
- Terence C. Reilly School No 7Middle · 1,130 students
Nearby schools
- Dr. Orlando Edreira Academy School No. 260.5 mi · 718
- Frances C. Smith Early Childhood Center No 500.5 mi · 306
- Woodrow Wilson School No. 190.6 mi · 563
- Alexander Hamilton Preparatory Academy0.6 mi · 1,015
- K. Johnson D. Vaughan and M. Jackson STEM Academy0.6 mi · 740
- Elmora School No. 120.7 mi · 658
Frequently asked questions
About Abraham Lincoln School No. 14How large is Abraham Lincoln School No. 14?
Abraham Lincoln School No. 14 enrolls approximately 793 students in grades KG-08.
What age range does Abraham Lincoln School No. 14 serve?
Abraham Lincoln School No. 14 serves students from grade KG through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Abraham Lincoln School No. 14?
Approximately 12.1:1 students per teacher at Abraham Lincoln School No. 14.
What is the student diversity at Abraham Lincoln School No. 14?
Student demographics at Abraham Lincoln School No. 14 are roughly 6% White, 82% Hispanic, 10% Black, 2% Asian.
Is Abraham Lincoln School No. 14 public or private?
Abraham Lincoln School No. 14 is a public K-12 school, overseen by Elizabeth Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.