Enrollment
255
Elementary
DISTRICT 374 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ORANGE BOARD OF EDUCATION SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341227002400
Cleveland Street Elementary School
355 CLEVELAND ST, ORANGE, NJ 07050 · (973) 677-4100 · Essex County
GRADES PK–07ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL255 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 18% 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.
- 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
8.2:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.7:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
75%
192 students
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 41%
Community
0
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 | 44 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 29 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 40 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 28 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 31 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 23 | 9% |
| Grade 6 | 33 | 13% |
| Grade 7 | 27 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (44) is 63% larger than its 7th grade class (27).
Student demographics
51%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · 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
Cleveland Street Elementary School→Orange Preparatory Academy School of Inquiry and Innovation
Based on grade levels within ORANGE BOARD OF EDUCATION School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
41.3%
NJ avg 53.1% . +15.2pp since 2023
Math
21.6%
NJ avg 41.6% . +4.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 22 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 15 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 41.3% | 21.6% |
| 2023-24 | 26.1% | 16.9% |
% 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
22.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
24.9%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 23% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 25% 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 Cleveland Street Elementary School
Cleveland Street Elementary School's state test result (22.9% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cleveland Street Elementary School this school | 255 | 75.3% | 22.9% |
| Dr. Charles C. Polk School ROSELLE | 315 | 75.2% | 28.9% |
| Number 5 Linden | 319 | 75.9% | 28.7% |
| Greenwood Elementary School HAMILTON | 270 | 83.3% | 22.6% |
| Bradley Elementary School ASBURY PARK | 345 | 81.4% | 8.9% |
| Green Grove Elementary School NEPTUNE | 296 | 71.6% | 16.9% |
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 Cleveland Street Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Essex County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 22.9% | #1,082 of 1,290 | #86 of 131 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 21.6% | #1,127 of 1,319 ▲ 23 | #100 of 141 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.3% | #902 of 1,319 ▲ 224 | #85 of 141 ▲ 26 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 255 | #1,268 of 1,562 | #130 of 162 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.2:1 | #55 of 1,390 | #1 of 140 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.8% | #788 of 1,392 | #59 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 75.3% | #279 of 1,481 | #53 of 142 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.7% | #332 of 798 | #25 of 73 |
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
255
-48 (-16%) vs 2020
-4% since 1990-91, when it was 267
Student : Teacher
8.2:1
was 10.4:1
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 | 255 | 31 | 8.2:1 | 75% (192) |
| 2023-24 | 322 | 31 | 10.4:1 | 63% (204) |
| 2022-23 | 292 | 26 | 11.2:1 | 75% (220) |
| 2020-21 | 303 | 29 | 10.4:1 | 76% (229) |
| 2017-18 | 292 | 27 | 10.8:1 | 73% (214) |
| 2015-16 | 308 | 27 | 11.4:1 | 78% (239) |
| 2010-11 | 289 | 21 | 13.8:1 | 85% (245) |
| 2000-01 | 382 | 26 | 14.7:1 | 87% (332) |
| 1990-91 | 267 | 15 | 17.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Cleveland Street Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 13% (292 to 255); teachers up 15% (27 to 31).
About Cleveland Street Elementary School
ORANGE, New Jersey, is home to Cleveland Street Elementary School, a small elementary school. It teaches 255 students in pre-K through 7. Elementary schools in New Jersey have about 405 students on average; enrollment here is 37% lower.
ORANGE BOARD OF EDUCATION School District includes 12 schools. Together they enroll 5,527 students.
No group is above 50% at Cleveland Street Elementary School; the largest is Black, at 50%. The school is also 49% Hispanic. The Black share of the county population is lower, at 36%. The diversity index for Cleveland Street Elementary School is 51%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Its staff includes 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 8.2 students per teacher. Compared with the 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey, this school's ratio is lower. Roughly 75% of students at Cleveland Street Elementary School can receive free or reduced-price lunch. Compared with the 54% average for public schools in Essex County, the school's rate is higher.
Cleveland Street Elementary School holds a C- allk12 Grade, placing it above 18% of New Jersey public elementary schools.
Cleveland Street Elementary School's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 22.9% is 2.1 points below the 24.9% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
The school's county is Essex County. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $80,789 a year, roughly 39% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Essex County number 249, with about 145,473 students.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Orange Early Childhood Center, is about 0.3 miles. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Ranked by average proficiency, Cleveland Street Elementary School places 5th out of 6 schools in its immediate area.
Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Large: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment decreased by 16% across 4 years, from 303 in 2020-21 to 255 in 2024-25. The ratio of students to teachers went from 10.4:1 to 8.2:1 over the same years.
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Essex County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
863,002
Census ACS
Median income
$80,789
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
249
145,473 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ORANGE BOARD OF EDUCATION School District
- Orange High SchoolHigh · 1,368 students
- Lincoln Avenue Elementary SchoolElementary · 728 students
- Rosa Parks Community SchoolMiddle · 593 students
- Park Avenue Elementary SchoolElementary · 423 students
- Orange Preparatory Academy School of Inquiry and InnovationMiddle · 397 students
- Forest Street Community Elementary SchoolElementary · 384 students
Other schools in ORANGE
- Orange High SchoolHigh · 1,368 students
- Lincoln Avenue Elementary SchoolElementary · 728 students
- Rosa Parks Community SchoolMiddle · 593 students
- Park Avenue Elementary SchoolElementary · 423 students
- Orange Preparatory Academy School of Inquiry and InnovationMiddle · 397 students
- Forest Street Community Elementary SchoolElementary · 384 students
Nearby schools
- Orange Early Childhood Center0.3 mi · 195
- Park Avenue Elementary School0.4 mi · 423
- West Orange Early Childhood Learning Center0.5 mi · 54
- Washington Elementary School0.5 mi · 414
- East Orange Community Charter School0.6 mi · 414
- Central Elementary School0.6 mi · 369
Frequently asked questions
About Cleveland Street Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Cleveland Street Elementary School?
Cleveland Street Elementary School enrolls approximately 255 students in grades PK-07.
Is Cleveland Street Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Cleveland Street Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-07.
How many teachers does Cleveland Street Elementary School have?
Cleveland Street Elementary School employs 31 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 8.2:1.
How diverse is Cleveland Street Elementary School?
Cleveland Street Elementary School reports a student body of 49% Hispanic, 50% Black, 0% Asian.
Is Cleveland Street Elementary School public or private?
Cleveland Street Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by ORANGE BOARD OF EDUCATION School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.