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What's one thing Broad Street School gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
784
Elementary
DISTRICT 589 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BRIDGETON CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340225001786
Broad Street School
251 WEST BROAD STREET, BRIDGETON, NJ 08302 · (856) 455-8030 · Cumberland County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY31-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL784 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 9% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
10.7:1
74 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.8:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
95%
745 students
DISTRICT 91% · 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 | 76 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 71 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 82 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 62 | 8% |
| Grade 4 | 78 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 91 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 100 | 13% |
| Grade 7 | 116 | 15% |
| Grade 8 | 108 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (76) is 30% smaller than its 8th grade class (108).
Student demographics
19%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 37% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Broad Street School→Bridgeton High School
Based on grade levels within Bridgeton City School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
16.8%
NJ avg 53.1% . +7.6pp since 2023
Math
14.6%
NJ avg 41.6% . +6.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 17 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 15 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 16.8% | 14.6% |
| 2023-24 | 9.2% | 7.8% |
% 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
10.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
14.2%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 11% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 14% 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 Broad Street School
Broad Street School's state test result (10.8% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Broad Street School this school | 784 | 95.0% | 10.8% |
| Martin Luther King Jr. School No. 6 Passaic | 754 | 99.5% | 10.3% |
| Blanquita B. Valenti Community School New Brunswick | 810 | 93.7% | 23.7% |
| Nicholas S. Lacorte-Peterstown School No. 3 ELIZABETH | 765 | 89.7% | 21.6% |
| Franklin Elementary School NEWARK | 725 | 91.2% | 21.0% |
| Abington Avenue School NEWARK | 842 | 89.4% | 24.1% |
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 Broad Street School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Cumberland County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 10.8% | #1,245 of 1,290 | #28 of 32 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 14.6% | #1,224 of 1,319 ▲ 56 | #23 of 32 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 16.8% | #1,262 of 1,319 ▲ 34 | #24 of 32 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 784 | #63 of 1,562 | #1 of 37 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.7:1 | #527 of 1,390 | #8 of 31 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 19.3% | #1,310 of 1,392 | #30 of 31 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 95.0% | #20 of 1,481 | #2 of 36 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.0% | #230 of 798 | #6 of 24 |
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
784
-152 (-16%) vs 2020
0% since 1990-91, when it was 786
Student : Teacher
10.7:1
was 11.4:1
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 | 784 | 73.5 | 10.7:1 | 95% (745) |
| 2023-24 | 779 | 77 | 10.1:1 | 66% (518) |
| 2022-23 | 773 | 79.5 | 9.7:1 | N/A |
| 2020-21 | 936 | 82 | 11.4:1 | 87% (814) |
| 2017-18 | 945 | 87.1 | 10.9:1 | 71% (668) |
| 2015-16 | 1,151 | 96 | 12.0:1 | 8% (90) |
| 2010-11 | 996 | 71 | 14.0:1 | 95% (948) |
| 2000-01 | 951 | 75 | 12.7:1 | 5% (48) |
| 1990-91 | 786 | 59 | 13.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Broad Street School.
Since 2017-18: students down 17% (945 to 784); teachers down 16% (87.1 to 73.5).
About Broad Street School
Broad Street School is a large elementary school in BRIDGETON, New Jersey, one of the schools in Bridgeton City School District. The grade span is kindergarten through 8, and enrollment is 784 students. An average school in this group (elementary schools in New Jersey) has about 405 students.
Broad Street School is among 8 schools run by Bridgeton City School District, which serves 5,764 students.
Federal enrollment data show Broad Street School is 90% Hispanic. It is also 7% Black and 3% White. Cumberland County's residents are about 36% Hispanic, 54 points below the school's share. Pick two students at random and there is a 19% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The school reported 73.5 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25 and a ratio of 10.7:1. On average, elementary schools in New Jersey have 11.4:1, compared with 10.7:1 here. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 95%. The gap from the 67% average for public schools in Cumberland County is 28 points.
The allk12 Grade for Broad Street School is D. Compared with New Jersey public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 9% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
The BeatsExpectations prediction for Broad Street School is 14.2%, and its average proficiency rate on state tests is 10.8%.
Census Bureau estimates for Cumberland County show that the median household income is $67,436, about 19% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 12% of residents are in poverty. Broad Street School is one of 52 public schools in the county.
Of nearby public schools, West Avenue School is the closest, at about 0.2 miles. Broad Street School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Broad Street School comes in 4th of 8 nearby schools on average proficiency.
By NCES locale, the school is Town: Fringe, or in a town close to an urbanized area.
Compared with 2020-21, the school had 152 fewer students in 2024-25.
Conversations here can range across school safety, transportation, and start times. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Cumberland County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
153,305
Census ACS
Median income
$67,436
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
19%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
52
27,803 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Bridgeton City School District
- Bridgeton High SchoolHigh · 1,641 students
- Quarter Mile Lane SchoolElementary · 693 students
- Buckshutem Road SchoolElementary · 653 students
- Indian Ave SchoolElementary · 627 students
- West Avenue SchoolElementary · 528 students
- Cherry Street SchoolElementary · 522 students
Other schools in BRIDGETON
- Bridgeton High SchoolHigh · 1,641 students
- Cumberland Regional High SchoolHigh · 1,161 students
- Quarter Mile Lane SchoolElementary · 693 students
- Buckshutem Road SchoolElementary · 653 students
- Indian Ave SchoolElementary · 627 students
- West Avenue SchoolElementary · 528 students
Nearby schools
- West Avenue School0.2 mi · 528
- Bridgeton High School0.5 mi · 1,641
- Quarter Mile Lane School0.8 mi · 693
- Cherry Street School1.5 mi · 522
- Indian Ave School1.6 mi · 627
- Geraldyn O Foster Early Childhood Center1.7 mi · 316
Frequently asked questions
About Broad Street SchoolHow large is Broad Street School?
Broad Street School enrolls approximately 784 students in grades KG-08.
Is Broad Street School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Broad Street School is an elementary school covering grades KG-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Broad Street School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Broad Street School is approximately 10.7:1 (74 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Broad Street School?
At Broad Street School, the student body is approximately 3% White, 90% Hispanic, 7% Black, 0% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is Broad Street School public or private?
Broad Street School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Bridgeton City School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.