Collins Elementary School

Located at 67 MARTIN RD, in LIVINGSTON, New Jersey, Collins Elementary School is a reasonably sized elementary campus that educates 440 students (grades K through 5), operated by Livingston Board of Education School District.

Livingston Board of Education School District runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 6,352 students. Collins Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Collins Elementary School lists that 44% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 39% Asian, 7% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% Black. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.

On the resource side, Collins Elementary School logs 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.6:1. The state averages about 11.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 1% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Essex County's rate of about 54%.

With demographic context factored in, Collins Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.7%, the actual is 75.1%, a residual of +9.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Essex County put the typical household earns roughly $80,789 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Essex County runs 249 public schools (combined enrollment of about 145,473 students), of which Collins Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Livingston High School, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Collins Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Collins Elementary School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 72.1%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Collins Elementary School has contracted 3%, going from 452 students in 2018 to 440 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 62% to 44%.

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