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Enrollment
586
Elementary
DISTRICT 601 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·JERSEY CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 340783002808
Chaplain Charles Watters School
220 VIRGINIA AVE, JERSEY CITY, NJ 07304 · (201) 915-6510 · Hudson County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL586 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 5% 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.
- C-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
11.4:1
52 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.3:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
84%
491 students
DISTRICT 69% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 45 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 39 | 7% |
| Grade 1 | 29 | 5% |
| Grade 2 | 46 | 8% |
| Grade 3 | 50 | 9% |
| Grade 4 | 52 | 9% |
| Grade 5 | 86 | 15% |
| Grade 6 | 92 | 16% |
| Grade 7 | 51 | 9% |
| Grade 8 | 96 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (39) is 59% smaller than its 8th grade class (96).
Student demographics
70%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 74% · 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
17.9%
NJ avg 53.1% . +0.1pp since 2023
Math
11.9%
NJ avg 41.6% . +4.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 18 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 12 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 are up about 4 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 17.9% | 11.9% |
| 2023-24 | 17.8% | 7.5% |
% 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
12.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
20.3%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 13% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 20% 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 Chaplain Charles Watters School
Chaplain Charles Watters School's state test result (12.7% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chaplain Charles Watters School this school | 586 | 83.8% | 12.7% |
| Dr. Maya Angelou Elementary School JERSEY CITY | 607 | 77.1% | 32.5% |
| Holly Heights Elementary School MILLVILLE | 466 | 82.6% | 17.1% |
| Silver Run Elementary School MILLVILLE | 460 | 87.2% | 12.0% |
| Lindenwold School Five LINDENWOLD | 596 | 80.5% | 26.4% |
| Rev. Dr. Ercel F. Webb School JERSEY CITY | 613 | 79.0% | 29.1% |
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 Chaplain Charles Watters School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Hudson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 12.7% | #1,226 of 1,290 | #80 of 84 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 11.9% | #1,249 of 1,319 ▲ 34 | #78 of 84 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 17.9% | #1,250 of 1,319 ▼ 17 | #80 of 84 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 586 | #249 of 1,562 | #42 of 88 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.4:1 | #713 of 1,390 | #44 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.8% | #159 of 1,392 | #21 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 83.8% | #152 of 1,481 | #20 of 88 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -23.8% | #112 of 798 | #13 of 61 |
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
586
-92 (-14%) vs 2020
-38% since 1990-91, when it was 942
Student : Teacher
11.4:1
was 13.3:1
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 | 586 | 51.5 | 11.4:1 | 84% (491) |
| 2023-24 | 552 | 49 | 11.3:1 | 66% (363) |
| 2022-23 | 697 | 45 | 15.5:1 | 58% (403) |
| 2020-21 | 678 | 51 | 13.3:1 | 67% (455) |
| 2017-18 | 769 | 57 | 13.5:1 | 79% (608) |
| 2015-16 | 878 | 65 | 13.5:1 | 82% (718) |
| 2010-11 | 884 | 63 | 14.0:1 | 79% (694) |
| 2000-01 | 1,071 | 64 | 16.7:1 | 84% (895) |
| 1990-91 | 942 | 54 | 17.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Chaplain Charles Watters School.
Since 2017-18: students down 24% (769 to 586); teachers down 10% (57 to 51.5).
About Chaplain Charles Watters School
Chaplain Charles Watters School is a medium-sized elementary school based in JERSEY CITY, New Jersey. A federal count lists 586 students at the school, in pre-K through 8. Average enrollment for elementary schools in New Jersey is about 405, so this school runs 45% above that.
Jersey City Public Schools enrolls 24,151 students in 39 schools, including Chaplain Charles Watters School.
No single group makes up more than half of enrollment at Chaplain Charles Watters School. The largest is Black students, at 42%. The next largest groups are 31% Hispanic, 15% White, 8% Asian, and 3% multiracial. In Hudson County overall, about 12% of residents are Black. Pick two students at random and there is a 70% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
With 51.5 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, the ratio at Chaplain Charles Watters School was 11.4:1. That is close to the 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey. Chaplain Charles Watters School's free or reduced-price lunch eligibility rate is 84%. On average, public schools in Hudson County report 68%.
allk12 grades Chaplain Charles Watters School a D. The grade compares the school only with New Jersey public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Chaplain Charles Watters School scores 12.7% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 20.3%.
Within Hudson County, the median household income is $91,795, about 49% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 11%. In all, Hudson County has 130 public schools and roughly 86,216 students.
Nearest public school: Empowerment Academy Charter School, less than a tenth of a mile away. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools average 30.5% on proficiency, and Chaplain Charles Watters School is below that at 12.7%.
Under the NCES locale system, Chaplain Charles Watters School is City: Large.
Enrollment at Chaplain Charles Watters School dropped 14% between 2020-21 and 2024-25, from 678 to 586 students. Federal data show the ratio falling from 13.3:1 to 11.4:1.
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Hudson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
718,323
Census ACS
Median income
$91,795
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
49%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
130
86,216 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Jersey City Public Schools
- William L Dickinson High SchoolHigh · 1,786 students
- James J Ferris High SchoolHigh · 1,364 students
- Cornelia F. Bradford SchoolElementary · 1,082 students
- Joseph H. Brensinger SchoolElementary · 926 students
- Christa McAuliffe SchoolElementary · 906 students
- Franklin L. Williams SchoolMiddle · 906 students
Other schools in JERSEY CITY
- William L Dickinson High SchoolHigh · 1,786 students
- BelovED Community Charter SchoolCombined · 1,573 students
- James J Ferris High SchoolHigh · 1,364 students
- Empowerment Academy Charter SchoolCombined · 1,272 students
- Cornelia F. Bradford SchoolElementary · 1,082 students
- Joseph H. Brensinger SchoolElementary · 926 students
Nearby schools
- Empowerment Academy Charter School0.1 mi · 1,272
- Dr. Paul Rafalides School0.2 mi · 318
- Ollie Culbreth Jr. School0.4 mi · 335
- Innovation High School0.4 mi · 301
- Henry Snyder High School0.4 mi · 729
- Academy I0.5 mi · 415
Frequently asked questions
About Chaplain Charles Watters SchoolHow large is Chaplain Charles Watters School?
Chaplain Charles Watters School enrolls approximately 586 students in grades PK-08.
Is Chaplain Charles Watters School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Chaplain Charles Watters School is an elementary school covering grades PK-08.
How many teachers does Chaplain Charles Watters School have?
Chaplain Charles Watters School employs 52 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.4:1.
How diverse is Chaplain Charles Watters School?
Chaplain Charles Watters School reports a student body of 15% White, 31% Hispanic, 42% Black, 8% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees Chaplain Charles Watters School?
Chaplain Charles Watters School is overseen by Jersey City Public Schools in Hudson County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.