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Enrollment
641
Elementary
DISTRICT 612 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW PROVIDENCE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341131005594
Allen W. Roberts School
80 JONES DR, NEW PROVIDENCE, NJ 07974 · (908) 464-4707 · Union County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL641 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 95% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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
11.9:1
54 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.8:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
2%
11 students
DISTRICT 2% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 34 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 66 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 87 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 69 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 94 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 89 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 95 | 15% |
| Grade 6 | 107 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (66) is 38% smaller than its 6th grade class (107).
Student demographics
64%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 59% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within New Providence School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
83.9%
NJ avg 53.1% . +1.4pp since 2023
Math
82.4%
NJ avg 41.6% . -0.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 84 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 82 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 1 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 83.9% | 82.4% |
| 2023-24 | 82.5% | 82.7% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NJ schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
80.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.2%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+15.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 80% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 65% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 15 points, placing it in New Jersey's top 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 Allen W. Roberts School
Allen W. Roberts School's state test result (80.2% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Allen W. Roberts School this school | 641 | 1.7% | 80.2% |
| Salt Brook School NEW PROVIDENCE | 583 | 0.7% | 84.3% |
| Cedar Hill School Basking Ridge | 568 | 3.5% | 75.4% |
| Chesterfield Township Elementary School Chesterfield | 675 | 5.6% | 51.0% |
| Edward H. Bryan CRESSKILL | 555 | 1.1% | 75.9% |
| Roosevelt School RIVER EDGE | 474 | 0.6% | 76.6% |
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 Allen W. Roberts School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Union County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 80.2% | #33 of 1,290 | #3 of 92 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 82.4% | #58 of 1,319 ▼ 19 | #6 of 93 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 83.9% | #54 of 1,319 ▲ 2 | #7 of 93 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 641 | #167 of 1,562 | #22 of 108 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.9:1 | #875 of 1,390 | #41 of 103 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.9% | #354 of 1,392 | #16 of 103 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 1.7% | #1,430 of 1,481 | #95 of 105 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.3% | #459 of 798 | #25 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
641
-32 (-5%) vs 2020
+38% since 1990-91, when it was 463
Student : Teacher
11.9:1
was 12.5:1
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 | 641 | 53.7 | 11.9:1 | 2% (11) |
| 2023-24 | 674 | 49.7 | 13.6:1 | 3% (17) |
| 2022-23 | 676 | 48.6 | 13.9:1 | 2% (12) |
| 2020-21 | 673 | 54 | 12.5:1 | 1% (9) |
| 2017-18 | 707 | 48.9 | 14.5:1 | 2% (13) |
| 2015-16 | 686 | 47 | 14.6:1 | 4% (27) |
| 2010-11 | 627 | 37 | 16.9:1 | 4% (26) |
| 2000-01 | 600 | 42 | 14.3:1 | 2% (9) |
| 1990-91 | 463 | 28 | 16.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Allen W. Roberts School.
Since 2017-18: students down 9% (707 to 641); teachers up 10% (48.9 to 53.7).
About Allen W. Roberts School
A high-enrollment elementary school in NEW PROVIDENCE, New Jersey, Allen W. Roberts School is part of New Providence School District. The school covers pre-K through 6 and reported 641 students in 2024-25. On average, elementary schools in New Jersey enroll around 405, and this school is 58% above that mark.
New Providence School District oversees Allen W. Roberts School and 3 other schools, with 2,264 students in total.
The largest group at Allen W. Roberts School is White students, at 50%. Other students are 29% Asian, 13% Hispanic, and 6% multiracial. By comparison, Union County residents are about 39% White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Allen W. Roberts School scores 64%.
Its ratio of 11.9:1 is based on 53.7 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is in line with the 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 2%. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Union County is 52%.
Allen W. Roberts School earns an A+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 95% of New Jersey public elementary schools.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. Allen W. Roberts School beats its 65.2% prediction with 80.2%, a top-10% result in New Jersey.
For Union County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $103,202, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of people live in poverty. Public schools in Union County number 180, with about 99,046 students.
A public school about 0.7 miles away, New Providence High School, is the closest to Allen W. Roberts School. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 70.5%, lower than Allen W. Roberts School's 80.2%.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment fell 5% over 4 years, reaching 641 in 2024-25.
The Allen W. Roberts School discussion page is a place for homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
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 New Providence School District
- New Providence High SchoolHigh · 644 students
- Salt Brook SchoolElementary · 583 students
- New Providence Middle SchoolMiddle · 396 students
Other schools in NEW PROVIDENCE
- New Providence High SchoolHigh · 644 students
- Salt Brook SchoolElementary · 583 students
- New Providence Middle SchoolMiddle · 396 students
- Developmental Learning Center New ProvidenceCombined · 91 students
Nearby schools
- New Providence High School0.7 mi · 644
- New Providence Middle School0.7 mi · 396
- William Woodruff School0.9 mi · 238
- Thomas P. Hughes School1.3 mi · 250
- Developmental Learning Center New Providence1.3 mi · 91
- Governor Livingston High School1.5 mi · 849
Frequently asked questions
About Allen W. Roberts SchoolHow many students attend Allen W. Roberts School?
Allen W. Roberts School enrolls approximately 641 students in grades PK-06.
Is Allen W. Roberts School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Allen W. Roberts School is an elementary school covering grades PK-06.
How many teachers does Allen W. Roberts School have?
Allen W. Roberts School employs 54 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.9:1.
How diverse is Allen W. Roberts School?
Allen W. Roberts School reports a student body of 50% White, 13% Hispanic, 1% Black, 29% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is Allen W. Roberts School public or private?
Allen W. Roberts School is a public K-12 school, overseen by New Providence School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.