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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at Blanquita B. Valenti Community School this year?
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Enrollment
810
Elementary
DISTRICT 524 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW BRUNSWICK SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341122003379
Blanquita B. Valenti Community School
50 Jersey Ave, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 · (732) 745-5300 · Middlesex County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL810 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 39% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats 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
11.2:1
73 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.7:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
94%
759 students
DISTRICT 92% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 45 | 6% |
| Grade 1 | 45 | 6% |
| Grade 2 | 33 | 4% |
| Grade 3 | 50 | 6% |
| Grade 4 | 95 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 107 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 139 | 17% |
| Grade 7 | 162 | 20% |
| Grade 8 | 134 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (45) is 66% smaller than its 8th grade class (134).
Student demographics
7%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 14% · 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
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
30.6%
NJ avg 53.1% . -0.2pp since 2023
Math
17.4%
NJ avg 41.6% . -0.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 17 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 30.6% | 17.4% |
| 2023-24 | 30.8% | 17.7% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
23.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
14.9%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 24% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 15% 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%.
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 Blanquita B. Valenti Community School
Blanquita B. Valenti Community School's state test result (23.7% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blanquita B. Valenti Community School this school | 810 | 93.7% | 23.7% |
| Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School UNION CITY | 871 | 92.1% | 41.8% |
| Public School Number One WEST NEW YORK | 758 | 92.1% | 30.9% |
| Broad Street School BRIDGETON | 784 | 95.0% | 10.8% |
| Abington Avenue School NEWARK | 842 | 89.4% | 24.1% |
| William B. Cruise Memorial School No. 11 Passaic | 805 | 99.6% | 15.3% |
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 Blanquita B. Valenti Community School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Middlesex County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 23.7% | #1,076 of 1,290 | #97 of 111 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 17.4% | #1,191 of 1,319 ▼ 57 | #105 of 111 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 30.6% | #1,095 of 1,319 ▼ 44 | #98 of 111 ▼ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 810 | #52 of 1,562 | #3 of 130 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.2:1 | #658 of 1,390 | #55 of 120 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 7.4% | #1,380 of 1,392 | #120 of 121 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 93.7% | #25 of 1,481 | #3 of 128 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +18.8% | #113 of 545 | #7 of 30 |
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
810
+237 (+41%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
11.2:1
was 11.9:1
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 | 810 | 72.5 | 11.2:1 | 94% (759) |
| 2023-24 | 760 | 67 | 11.3:1 | 65% (494) |
| 2022-23 | 569 | 49 | 11.6:1 | 93% (527) |
| 2020-21 | 573 | 48 | 11.9:1 | 99% (566) |
| 2017-18 | 682 | 51.4 | 13.3:1 | 55% (378) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Blanquita B. Valenti Community School.
Since 2017-18: students up 19% (682 to 810); teachers up 41% (51.4 to 72.5).
About Blanquita B. Valenti Community School
Blanquita B. Valenti Community School is a high-enrollment elementary school. Its address is in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The school counts 810 students across kindergarten through 8. The school's enrollment is 100% above the 405 average for elementary schools in New Jersey.
New Brunswick School District (13 schools, 8,337 students) runs Blanquita B. Valenti Community School.
Hispanic students make up 96% of enrollment at Blanquita B. Valenti Community School. Other students are 3% Black. That is higher than the 24% Hispanic share among all Middlesex County residents. The school's diversity index is 7%, meaning two students picked at random have a 7% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
A ratio of 11.2:1 comes from the school's 72.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. For comparison, elementary schools in New Jersey average 11.4:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility was 94% in 2024-25. The gap from the 42% average for public schools in Middlesex County is 52 points.
allk12 grades Blanquita B. Valenti Community School a C+. The grade compares the school only with New Jersey public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Blanquita B. Valenti Community School sits between the top and bottom 10% of New Jersey schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate on state tests of 23.7% and a predicted 14.9%.
Middlesex County has these Census figures: the median household income is $111,549, about 46% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. In all, Middlesex County has 214 public schools and roughly 129,255 students.
New Brunswick Adult High School is the public school closest to Blanquita B. Valenti Community School, about 0.1 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Blanquita B. Valenti Community School ranks 1st of 8 on average proficiency.
Blanquita B. Valenti Community School is coded as City: Small in federal locale data.
The school counted 573 students in 2020-21 and 810 in 2024-25. A shift in the grades offered could account for part of the difference.
Conversations here can range across enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
Middlesex County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
871,290
Census ACS
Median income
$111,549
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
46%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
214
129,255 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in New Brunswick School District
- New Brunswick High SchoolHigh · 2,443 students
- New Brunswick Middle SchoolMiddle · 829 students
- A Chester Redshaw SchoolElementary · 678 students
- Paul Robeson Community School for the ArtsElementary · 624 students
- Roosevelt Elementary SchoolElementary · 597 students
- Mckinley Community SchoolElementary · 524 students
Other schools in New Brunswick
- New Brunswick High SchoolHigh · 2,443 students
- New Brunswick Middle SchoolMiddle · 829 students
- A Chester Redshaw SchoolElementary · 678 students
- Paul Robeson Community School for the ArtsElementary · 624 students
- Roosevelt Elementary SchoolElementary · 597 students
- Mckinley Community SchoolElementary · 524 students
Nearby schools
- New Brunswick Adult High School0.1 mi · 85
- A Chester Redshaw School0.3 mi · 678
- Livingston Elementary School0.4 mi · 342
- Roosevelt Elementary School0.5 mi · 597
- Paul Robeson Community School for the Arts0.7 mi · 624
- Greater Brunswick Charter School0.7 mi · 397
Frequently asked questions
About Blanquita B. Valenti Community SchoolHow large is Blanquita B. Valenti Community School?
Blanquita B. Valenti Community School enrolls approximately 810 students in grades KG-08.
Is Blanquita B. Valenti Community School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Blanquita B. Valenti Community School is an elementary school covering grades KG-08.
How many teachers does Blanquita B. Valenti Community School have?
Blanquita B. Valenti Community School employs 73 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.2:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Blanquita B. Valenti Community School?
At Blanquita B. Valenti Community School, the student body is approximately 0% White, 96% Hispanic, 3% Black, 0% Asian, 0% Two or more.
Is Blanquita B. Valenti Community School public or private?
Blanquita B. Valenti Community School is a public K-12 school, overseen by New Brunswick School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.