Berkeley Terrace Elementary School

Berkeley Terrace Elementary School, an average-sized elementary-level community in IRVINGTON, New Jersey, operated by Irvington Public School District, caters to 464 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Berkeley Terrace Elementary School is one of 12 schools operated by Irvington Public School District, a district that works with 7,659 students overall.

On demographics, Berkeley Terrace Elementary School reports that 57% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest consists of 42% Hispanic. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 36%.

On the resource side, Berkeley Terrace Elementary School shows 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.4:1. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 72% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Essex County's rate of about 54%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Berkeley Terrace Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 26.6%, the actual is 15.2%, a residual of -11.5 points.

In the area at large, Essex County reports that the typical household earns roughly $80,789 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Essex County runs 249 public schools (combined enrollment of about 145,473 students), of which Berkeley Terrace Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: University Middle School, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Berkeley Terrace Elementary School comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 18.1%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Berkeley Terrace Elementary School has declined 6%, going from 495 students in 2018 to 464 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 28% to 42% across the same window.

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