Avon Avenue School

Located at 219 AVON AVE, in NEWARK, New Jersey, Avon Avenue School is a reasonably sized primary school that instructs 485 students (grades pre-K through 8), overseen by Newark Public School District.

Newark Public School District comprises 65 schools with combined enrollment of 41,502 students; Avon Avenue School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Avon Avenue School shows that 76% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder reads as 21% Hispanic. By comparison, Essex County as a whole is about 36% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Avon Avenue School has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting Avon Avenue School higher than the state norm the norm. Around 78% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Essex County (around 54%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Avon Avenue School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 23.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 12.0%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Essex County indicate the typical household earns roughly $80,789 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Essex County runs 249 public schools (combined enrollment of about 145,473 students), of which Avon Avenue School is one.

People's Achieve Community Charter School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Avon Avenue School. On composite proficiency, Avon Avenue School comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 20.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Avon Avenue School has showed little movement, going from 494 students in 2018 to 485 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 91% to 76% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 in 2025.

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