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Enrollment
440
Elementary
DISTRICT 458 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LIVINGSTON BOARD OF EDUCATION SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340882002134
Collins Elementary School
67 MARTIN RD, LIVINGSTON, NJ 07039 · (973) 535-8000 · Essex County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL440 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 88% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-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
11.6:1
38 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.2:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
1%
4 students
DISTRICT 2% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 56 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 71 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 68 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 83 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 79 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 83 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (56) is 33% smaller than its 5th grade class (83).
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · 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
Collins Elementary School→Mount Pleasant Middle School→Heritage Middle School→Livingston High School
Based on grade levels within Livingston Board of Education School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
84.1%
NJ avg 53.1% . +8.2pp since 2023
Math
76.0%
NJ avg 41.6% . +2.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 84 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 76 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 84.1% | 76.0% |
| 2023-24 | 75.9% | 74.0% |
% 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
75.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.7%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 75% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 66% 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 Collins Elementary School
Collins Elementary School's state test result (75.1% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collins Elementary School this school | 440 | 0.9% | 75.1% |
| Burnet Hill Elementary School LIVINGSTON | 425 | 2.1% | 75.1% |
| Hamilton Primary School Basking Ridge | 462 | 4.8% | 70.4% |
| T. Baldwin Demarest Elementary School OLD TAPPAN | 374 | 0.8% | 71.6% |
| Edward H. Bryan CRESSKILL | 555 | 1.1% | 75.9% |
| Malcolm S Mackay School TENAFLY | 349 | 0.9% | 72.1% |
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 Collins Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Essex County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 75.1% | #84 of 1,290 | #14 of 131 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 76.0% | #146 of 1,319 ▼ 11 | #19 of 141 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 84.1% | #49 of 1,319 ▲ 93 | #7 of 141 ▲ 13 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 440 | #569 of 1,562 | #71 of 162 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.6:1 | #768 of 1,390 | #36 of 140 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.6% | #339 of 1,392 | #21 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 0.9% | #1,461 of 1,481 | #138 of 142 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.7% | #712 of 798 | #64 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
440
-12 (-3%) vs 2020
+106% since 1990-91, when it was 214
Student : Teacher
11.6:1
was 12.2:1
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 | 440 | 38 | 11.6:1 | 1% (4) |
| 2023-24 | 471 | 40 | 11.8:1 | 1% (7) |
| 2022-23 | 461 | 40 | 11.5:1 | 2% (9) |
| 2020-21 | 452 | 37 | 12.2:1 | 2% (11) |
| 2017-18 | 452 | 37.2 | 12.2:1 | 2% (8) |
| 2015-16 | 472 | 36 | 13.1:1 | 1% (4) |
| 2010-11 | 425 | 20 | 21.3:1 | 1% (4) |
| 2000-01 | 390 | 24 | 16.3:1 | 2% (6) |
| 1990-91 | 214 | 17 | 12.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Collins Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 3% (452 to 440); teachers up 2% (37.2 to 38).
About Collins Elementary School
Collins Elementary School is an elementary school with a street address in LIVINGSTON, New Jersey. Grades offered run from kindergarten through 5, with 440 students enrolled.
Collins Elementary School belongs to Livingston Board of Education School District, a district of 9 schools and 6,352 students.
White students form the largest group at Collins Elementary School, 44% of enrollment. Next come 39% Asian, 7% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, and 3% Black. That compares with about 30% White among all Essex County residents. By the diversity index, Collins Elementary School comes in at 65%.
Teachers at Collins Elementary School total 38 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 11.6:1. Elementary schools in New Jersey have a similar average ratio of 11.4:1. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 1%. The average for public schools in Essex County is 54%.
allk12 grades Collins Elementary School an A. The grade compares the school only with New Jersey public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Collins Elementary School's actual average proficiency rate on state tests (75.1%) and its predicted rate (65.7%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of New Jersey schools.
Census Bureau estimates for Essex County show that median household income is about $80,789, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. A total of 249 public schools operate in Essex County, serving about 145,473 students.
The nearest other public school, Livingston High School, is about 0.5 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Collins Elementary School. On state test proficiency, Collins Elementary School ranks 5th in a group of 8 nearby schools.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment was 452 in 2020-21 and 440 in 2024-25, a decrease of 12 students.
Community posts for Collins Elementary School can cover sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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 Livingston Board of Education School District
- Livingston High SchoolHigh · 2,081 students
- Heritage Middle SchoolMiddle · 994 students
- Mount Pleasant Middle SchoolMiddle · 530 students
- Harrison Elementary SchoolElementary · 522 students
- Riker Hill Elementary SchoolElementary · 477 students
- Hillside Elementary SchoolElementary · 476 students
Other schools in LIVINGSTON
- Livingston High SchoolHigh · 2,081 students
- Heritage Middle SchoolMiddle · 994 students
- Mount Pleasant Middle SchoolMiddle · 530 students
- Harrison Elementary SchoolElementary · 522 students
- Riker Hill Elementary SchoolElementary · 477 students
- Hillside Elementary SchoolElementary · 476 students
Other Collins Elementary schools
8 other US public schools in 8 states are named Collins Elementary. Collins Elementary School is the 5th largest of the 9.
- Collins Elementary SchoolHOUSTON, TX · 788 students
- Collins Elementary SchoolHOUGHTON LAKE, MI · 489 students
- Collins Elementary SchoolCOLLINS, MS · 474 students
- Collins ElementaryTacoma, WA · 466 students
- Collins Elementary SchoolBristow, OK · 374 students
Nearby schools
- Livingston High School0.5 mi · 2,081
- Hillside Elementary School1.0 mi · 476
- Burnet Hill Elementary School1.1 mi · 425
- Betty Maddalena Early Learning Center1.2 mi · 49
- Mount Pleasant Elementary School1.3 mi · 407
- Mount Pleasant Middle School1.4 mi · 530
Frequently asked questions
About Collins Elementary SchoolHow large is Collins Elementary School?
Collins Elementary School enrolls approximately 440 students in grades KG-05.
Is Collins Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Collins Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Collins Elementary School have?
Collins Elementary School employs 38 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.6:1.
How diverse is Collins Elementary School?
Collins Elementary School reports a student body of 44% White, 7% Hispanic, 3% Black, 39% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is Collins Elementary School public or private?
Collins Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Livingston Board of Education School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.