Alexander D. Sullivan School

Alexander D. Sullivan School operates as a substantial elementary school in JERSEY CITY, New Jersey, part of Jersey City Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 638 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 405 students each, so Alexander D. Sullivan School sits 58% bigger than that benchmark.

Within Jersey City Public Schools, which oversees 39 schools and 24,151 students, Alexander D. Sullivan School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Alexander D. Sullivan School shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 59%. Beyond that, the school reports 26% Black, 7% White, 5% Asian, 3% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.9:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 81% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Hudson County (around 68%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Alexander D. Sullivan School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.6%, the actual is 15.3%, a residual of -6.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Hudson County shows median household earnings sit near $91,795, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Alexander D. Sullivan School is one of 130 public schools in Hudson County (combined enrollment of about 86,216 students).

Nearest neighbor: Ezra L. Nolan School, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Alexander D. Sullivan School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 39.6%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Alexander D. Sullivan School's enrollment has shrank 11% since 2018, when it stood at 719 (now 638). The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 45% to 59% over that span.

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