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What advice would you give to incoming students at Connecticut Farms Elementary?
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Enrollment
430
Elementary
DISTRICT 529 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·TOWNSHIP OF UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341650005752
Connecticut Farms Elementary
875 STUYVESANT AVENUE, UNION, NJ 07083 · (908) 851-6470 · Union County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL430 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 52% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-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
11.3:1
38 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.5:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
43%
184 students
DISTRICT 47% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 48 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 60 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 83 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 84 | 20% |
| Grade 3 | 83 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 72 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (60) is 17% smaller than its 4th grade class (72).
Student demographics
73%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · 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
52.8%
NJ avg 53.1% . +3.9pp since 2023
Math
44.1%
NJ avg 41.6% . +9.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 44 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 10 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 52.8% | 44.1% |
| 2023-24 | 48.9% | 34.5% |
% 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
45.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.7%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 45% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% 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 Connecticut Farms Elementary
Connecticut Farms Elementary's state test result (45.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connecticut Farms Elementary this school | 430 | 42.8% | 45.3% |
| Battle Hill Elementary UNION | 414 | 46.4% | 33.7% |
| Livingston Elementary UNION | 485 | 37.5% | 48.5% |
| Kelly Elementary School W ORANGE | 451 | 43.0% | 47.8% |
| John Greenleaf Whittier Elementary School TEANECK | 361 | 49.9% | 43.4% |
| Francis Lore Elementary School EWING | 505 | 49.1% | 36.2% |
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 Connecticut Farms Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Union County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 45.3% | #629 of 1,290 | #33 of 92 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 44.1% | #706 of 1,319 ▲ 131 | #32 of 93 ▲ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 52.8% | #640 of 1,319 ▲ 52 | #39 of 93 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 430 | #604 of 1,562 | #50 of 108 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.3:1 | #701 of 1,390 | #27 of 103 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 72.6% | #71 of 1,392 | #3 of 103 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 42.8% | #698 of 1,481 | #63 of 105 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +8.9% | #284 of 545 | #16 of 42 |
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
430
+57 (+15%) vs 2020
-25% since 1990-91, when it was 575
Student : Teacher
11.3:1
was 10.7:1
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 | 430 | 38 | 11.3:1 | 43% (184) |
| 2023-24 | 425 | 37 | 11.5:1 | 36% (154) |
| 2022-23 | 420 | 34 | 12.3:1 | 20% (86) |
| 2020-21 | 373 | 35 | 10.7:1 | 36% (133) |
| 2017-18 | 395 | 42 | 9.4:1 | 25% (97) |
| 2015-16 | 412 | 44 | 9.4:1 | 31% (126) |
| 2010-11 | 444 | 32 | 13.9:1 | 27% (122) |
| 2000-01 | 472 | 31 | 15.2:1 | 27% (126) |
| 1990-91 | 575 | 30 | 19.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Connecticut Farms Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 9% (395 to 430); teachers down 10% (42 to 38).
About Connecticut Farms Elementary
Connecticut Farms Elementary, located in UNION, New Jersey, is a medium-sized elementary school. The school counts 430 students across pre-K through 5.
Township of Union School District enrolls 7,845 students in 10 schools, including Connecticut Farms Elementary.
The most common group at Connecticut Farms Elementary is Hispanic students, at 34%. After that, the student body is 33% Black, 20% White, 8% Asian, and 3% multiracial. That is close to the 35% Hispanic share among all Union County residents. The school's diversity index is 73%, meaning two students picked at random have a 73% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Teachers at the school number 38 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 11.3:1. That is close to the 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey. The school's lunch program data list 43% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. On average, public schools in Union County report 52%.
allk12 grades Connecticut Farms Elementary a B-. The grade compares the school only with New Jersey public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Connecticut Farms Elementary is +2.6 points: 45.3% actual, 42.7% predicted.
Across Union County, the median household income is $103,202, about 39% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. In all, Union County has 180 public schools and roughly 99,046 students.
The school nearest to Connecticut Farms Elementary is Burnet Middle School, at a distance of about 0.4 miles. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Among the 8 closest schools with test data, this one included, Connecticut Farms Elementary ranks 3rd on average proficiency.
Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Large: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Compared with 2020-21, the school had 57 more students in 2024-25.
Parents and students can post about sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater at Connecticut Farms Elementary. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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 Township of Union School District
- Union High SchoolHigh · 2,410 students
- Burnet Middle SchoolMiddle · 970 students
- Hannah Caldwell ElementaryElementary · 812 students
- Kawameeh Middle SchoolMiddle · 729 students
- Washington ElementaryElementary · 578 students
- Jefferson ElementaryMiddle · 564 students
Other schools in UNION
- Union High SchoolHigh · 2,410 students
- Burnet Middle SchoolMiddle · 970 students
- Hannah Caldwell ElementaryElementary · 812 students
- Kawameeh Middle SchoolMiddle · 729 students
- Washington ElementaryElementary · 578 students
- Jefferson ElementaryMiddle · 564 students
Nearby schools
- Burnet Middle School0.4 mi · 970
- Kawameeh Middle School0.7 mi · 729
- Hannah Caldwell Elementary0.7 mi · 812
- Union High School0.9 mi · 2,410
- Washington Elementary1.0 mi · 578
- Work Readiness Academy1.1 mi · 23
Frequently asked questions
About Connecticut Farms ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Connecticut Farms Elementary?
Connecticut Farms Elementary enrolls approximately 430 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Connecticut Farms Elementary serve?
Connecticut Farms Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Connecticut Farms Elementary?
Approximately 11.3:1 students per teacher at Connecticut Farms Elementary.
How diverse is Connecticut Farms Elementary?
Connecticut Farms Elementary reports a student body of 20% White, 34% Hispanic, 33% Black, 8% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees Connecticut Farms Elementary?
Connecticut Farms Elementary is overseen by Township of Union School District in Union County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.