Burch Charter School of Excellence

Located at 100 LINDEN AVE, in IRVINGTON, New Jersey, Burch Charter School of Excellence is a cozy elementary school that hosts 335 students (grades K through 5), operated by Burch Charter School of Excellence.

Burch Charter School of Excellence sits inside Burch Charter School of Excellence, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

On the student-mix side, Burch Charter School of Excellence reports that nearly all students (96%) are Black. Beyond that, the school logs 4% Hispanic. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 36%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 66% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Essex County's rate of about 54%.

After controlling for student poverty, Burch Charter School of Excellence performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.1%, the actual is 22.1%, a residual of -7.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Essex County put the typical household earns roughly $80,789 per year, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 Burch Charter School of Excellence is one.

Nearest neighbor: Madison Avenue, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Burch Charter School of Excellence comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 17.8%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting. Burch Charter School of Excellence is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 6%: 355 students in 2018 compared to 335 in 2025. Class-load math has rose: from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 17.6:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.