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What's one thing College Achieve Central Charter School gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
1,572
Combined
STATE 934
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·COLLEGE ACHIEVE CENTRAL CHARTER SCHOOL·NCES 340077903353
College Achieve Central Charter School
365 Emerson Ave, Plainfield, NJ 07062 · (908) 625-1879 · Union County
GRADES KG–12COMBINED21-SUBURBCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,572 STUDENTS
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This school has no state test results for 2023-24 or 2024-25 to grade, which is common for schools that end before third grade. How grades work
Student : Teacher
16.4:1
96 FTE teachers
STATE 15.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
84%
1,327 students
STATE 41%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other combined schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 115 | 7% |
| Grade 1 | 99 | 6% |
| Grade 2 | 111 | 7% |
| Grade 3 | 116 | 7% |
| Grade 4 | 115 | 7% |
| Grade 5 | 116 | 7% |
| Grade 6 | 134 | 9% |
| Grade 7 | 132 | 8% |
| Grade 8 | 128 | 8% |
| Grade 9 | 149 | 9% |
| Grade 10 | 122 | 8% |
| Grade 11 | 123 | 8% |
| Grade 12 | 112 | 7% |
This year's kindergarten class (115) is 10% smaller than its 8th grade class (128).
Student demographics
31%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
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
61.8%
NJ avg 53.1% . +5.1pp since 2023
Math
35.7%
NJ avg 41.6% . +6.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 36 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 61.8% | 35.7% |
| 2023-24 | 56.7% | 29.4% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NJ schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
38.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
20.0%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+18.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 20% 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 18 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 →
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,572
+219 (+16%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
16.4:1
was 19.6:1
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 | 1,572 | 96 | 16.4:1 | 84% (1,327) |
| 2023-24 | 1,428 | 86 | 16.6:1 | 66% (947) |
| 2022-23 | 1,403 | 102 | 13.8:1 | 73% (1,028) |
| 2020-21 | 1,353 | 69 | 19.6:1 | 76% (1,030) |
| 2017-18 | 816 | 54.5 | 15.0:1 | 58% (477) |
| 2015-16 | 311 | 19 | 16.4:1 | 69% (214) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for College Achieve Central Charter School.
Since 2017-18: students up 93% (816 to 1,572); teachers up 76% (54.5 to 96).
About College Achieve Central Charter School
A high-enrollment combined-grade school in Plainfield, New Jersey, College Achieve Central Charter School is part of College Achieve Central Charter School. The grade span is kindergarten through 12, and enrollment is 1,572 students. An average school in this group (combined schools in New Jersey) has about 934 students.
The school serves as its own district in federal records.
The student body at College Achieve Central Charter School is 81% Hispanic. Enrollment also includes 18% Black. Among people living in Union County, the Hispanic share is about 35%. Pick two students at random and there is a 31% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Federal records show a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.4:1 at College Achieve Central Charter School, with 96 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is close to the 15.8:1 average for combined schools in New Jersey. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility, a common measure of family income, is 84%. Compared with the 52% average for public schools in Union County, the school's rate is higher.
College Achieve Central Charter School outperforms its prediction by 18.4 points. The model expects 20.0% for a school with its free or reduced-price lunch share in New Jersey; the school's rate is 38.3%.
Census Bureau estimates for Union County show that the median household income is $103,202, roughly 39% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 7%. There are 180 public schools in Union County, enrolling about 99,046 students in all.
Of nearby public schools, Emerson Community School is the closest, at about 0.1 miles. College Achieve Central Charter School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Among 8 nearby schools that report test results, College Achieve Central Charter School ranks 3rd on proficiency.
NCES describes the area around College Achieve Central Charter School as Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more. College Achieve Central Charter School operates as a charter school, which is publicly funded and run under a charter.
Compared with 2020-21, the school had 219 more students in 2024-25. Federal data show the ratio falling from 19.6:1 to 16.4:1.
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Union County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
579,290
Census ACS
Median income
$103,202
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
180
99,046 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Plainfield
- Plainfield High SchoolHigh · 2,077 students
- Charles and Anna Booker Elementary SchoolElementary · 816 students
- Hubbard Middle SchoolMiddle · 737 students
- Maxson Middle SchoolMiddle · 721 students
- Cedarbrook Elementary SchoolElementary · 671 students
- Cresthaven Academy Charter SchoolElementary · 621 students
Nearby schools
- Emerson Community School0.1 mi · 414
- Maxson Middle School0.5 mi · 721
- Frederic W. Cook Elementary School0.6 mi · 198
- Dewitt D. Barlow Elementary School0.6 mi · 423
- Charles and Anna Booker Elementary School0.6 mi · 816
- Pinnacle Academy High School0.6 mi · 67
Frequently asked questions
About College Achieve Central Charter SchoolHow large is College Achieve Central Charter School?
College Achieve Central Charter School enrolls approximately 1,572 students in grades KG-12.
Is College Achieve Central Charter School an elementary, middle, or high school?
College Achieve Central Charter School is a combined-grade school covering grades KG-12.
How many students per teacher at College Achieve Central Charter School?
Approximately 16.4:1 students per teacher at College Achieve Central Charter School.
How diverse is College Achieve Central Charter School?
College Achieve Central Charter School reports a student body of 0% White, 81% Hispanic, 18% Black, 0% Asian, 0% Two or more.
What district is College Achieve Central Charter School in?
College Achieve Central Charter School is part of College Achieve Central Charter School.
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