Camden Street Elementary School

Camden Street Elementary School operates as a high-enrollment elementary school in NEWARK, New Jersey, part of Newark Public School District. Current enrollment sits at 685 students spanning grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 69% above the state mean of about 405.

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

In terms of who attends, Camden Street Elementary School logs that 53% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school reports 45% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 36% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. An estimated 86% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Essex County's rate of about 54%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Camden Street Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 19.1%; this one delivers 10.4%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Essex County put the typical household earns roughly $80,789 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Essex County runs 249 public schools (combined enrollment of about 145,473 students), of which Camden Street Elementary School is one.

Bard Early College High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Camden Street Elementary School at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 27.1%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Camden Street Elementary School has edged up 8%, going from 632 students in 2018 to 685 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 74% to 53% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 11.9:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 today.

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