Augusta Preschool Academy

Augusta Preschool Academy is a cozy elementary campus in IRVINGTON, New Jersey, part of Irvington Public School District. The school enrolls 330 students in grade pre-K.

Irvington Public School District runs 12 schools in total, collectively educating 7,659 students. Augusta Preschool Academy is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Augusta Preschool Academy records that Black students make up the majority at 72%; the rest comes out to 27% Hispanic. By comparison, Essex County as a whole is about 36% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. About 72% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Essex County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Around the school, census data for Essex County shows the typical household earns roughly $80,789 per year, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Augusta Preschool Academy is one of 249 public schools in Essex County (combined enrollment of about 145,473 students).

Nearest neighbor: Mt. Vernon Avenue Elementary School, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a residential site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 5%: 315 students in 2018 compared to 330 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 18% to 27% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 in 2025.

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