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Anna L. Klein
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 32 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 12 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 10 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 31% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 21% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Anna L. Klein
Anna L. Klein is one of the expansive elementary schools in GUTTENBERG, New Jersey, overseen by Guttenberg School District, with 977 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 141% bigger than the state mean of about 405.
Guttenberg School District is the operating authority for Anna L. Klein, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.
Looking at the student body, Anna L. Klein lists that 91% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder comes out to 6% White. By comparison, Hudson County as a whole is about 41% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, Anna L. Klein shows 95 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.3:1. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 83% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Hudson County (around 68%), the school's rate is north of typical.
With demographic context factored in, Anna L. Klein performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 20.8%, the actual is 31.4%, a residual of +10.6 points.
In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Hudson County indicate the typical household earns roughly $91,795 per year, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Hudson County runs 130 public schools (combined enrollment of about 86,216 students), of which Anna L. Klein is one.
The closest other public school is Albio Sires Elementary School, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Anna L. Klein comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 28.0%.
The campus sits in a suburban setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. Anna L. Klein's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 985 (now 977).
On this page, members of the Anna L. Klein community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
Hudson County at a glance
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