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What do students at Colin Powell Elementary School actually talk about outside of class?
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Enrollment
692
Elementary
DISTRICT 588 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·UNION CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341638003215
Colin Powell Elementary School
1500 New York Avenue, Union City, NJ 07087 · (201) 351-5165 · Hudson County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL692 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
52 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.2:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
74%
509 students
DISTRICT 78% · 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
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. 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
Colin Powell Elementary School→Emerson Middle School
Based on grade levels within Union City School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
60.9%
NJ avg 53.1% . +2.7pp since 2023
Math
52.0%
NJ avg 41.6% . +3.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 61 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 52 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
Source: NJSLA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NJ schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
48.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.9%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+22.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 26% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 22 points, placing it in New Jersey's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
692
-150 (-18%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
was 15.3:1
% White
1%
was 2%
% Hispanic
95%
was 95%
% Black
2%
was 1%
% Asian
2%
was 1%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About Colin Powell Elementary School
Colin Powell Elementary School is an elementary-level community of sprawling scale in Union City, New Jersey, operated by Union City School District, serveing 692 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 405 students each, so Colin Powell Elementary School sits 71% above that benchmark.
Colin Powell Elementary School is one of 14 schools operated by Union City School District, a district that works with 11,519 students overall.
On the student-mix side, Colin Powell Elementary School reports that 95% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest reads as 2% Asian. By comparison, Hudson County as a whole is about 41% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, Colin Powell Elementary School shows 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting Colin Powell Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 74% of students at Colin Powell Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Colin Powell Elementary School is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 25.9%; this one delivers 48.1%, a residual of +22.2 points.
Around the school, community-level numbers for Hudson County indicate median household income runs about $91,795, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Hudson County's 130 public schools (combined enrollment of about 86,216 students), Colin Powell Elementary School is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Emerson Middle School, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Colin Powell Elementary School comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 52.7%.
The school occupies an outer-ring site.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 18%: 842 students in 2018 compared to 692 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 today.
In the discussion threads here, members of the Colin Powell Elementary School community share and discuss classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.
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 Union City School District
- Union City High SchoolHigh · 3,147 students
- Emerson Middle SchoolMiddle · 999 students
- Robert Waters Elementary SchoolElementary · 983 students
- Theodore Roosevelt Elementary SchoolElementary · 871 students
- Union Hill Middle SchoolMiddle · 865 students
- George Washington Elementary SchoolElementary · 776 students
Other schools in Union City
- Union City High SchoolHigh · 3,147 students
- Emerson Middle SchoolMiddle · 999 students
- Robert Waters Elementary SchoolElementary · 983 students
- Theodore Roosevelt Elementary SchoolElementary · 871 students
- Union Hill Middle SchoolMiddle · 865 students
- George Washington Elementary SchoolElementary · 776 students
Nearby schools
- Emerson Middle School0.1 mi · 999
- Hudson Elementary School0.2 mi · 320
- Veterans' Memorial Elementary School0.3 mi · 502
- Jose Marti STEM Academy0.3 mi · 625
- Sara M. Gilmore Academy0.4 mi · 400
- John F Kennedy Elementary School0.5 mi · 576
Frequently asked questions
About Colin Powell Elementary SchoolHow large is Colin Powell Elementary School?
Colin Powell Elementary School enrolls approximately 692 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Colin Powell Elementary School serve?
Colin Powell Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Colin Powell Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Colin Powell Elementary School is approximately 13.3:1 (52 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Colin Powell Elementary School?
Student demographics at Colin Powell Elementary School are roughly 1% White, 95% Hispanic, 2% Black, 2% Asian.
Who oversees Colin Powell Elementary School?
Colin Powell Elementary School is overseen by Union City School District in Hudson County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.