Cleveland Street Elementary School

Cleveland Street Elementary School, a modestly sized elementary campus in ORANGE, New Jersey, run under ORANGE BOARD OF EDUCATION School District, enrolls 255 students, covering grades pre-K through 7. That puts it 37% leaner than the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 405 students.

Across the 12 schools in ORANGE BOARD OF EDUCATION School District (5,527 students total), Cleveland Street Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Cleveland Street Elementary School reports that 50% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder consists of 49% Hispanic. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 36%.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting Cleveland Street Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 75% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Essex County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Cleveland Street Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 24.9%, the actual is 22.9%, a residual of -2.1 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Essex County indicate the typical household earns roughly $80,789 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Essex County's 249 public schools (combined enrollment of about 145,473 students), Cleveland Street Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Orange Early Childhood Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Cleveland Street Elementary School at 5th of 6; the average score across the group is 36.8%.

Cleveland Street Elementary School operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Cleveland Street Elementary School has edged down 13%, going from 292 students in 2018 to 255 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share edged down from 65% to 50%. Class-load math has tightened: from 10.8:1 in 2018 to 8.2:1 in 2025.

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