Daniel Webster School

Daniel Webster School runs as a mid-sized elementary school in WEEHAWKEN, New Jersey. Its grade span covers pre-K through 2, with 406 students on the rolls.

A total of 3 schools make up Weehawken Public School District, with 1,347 students enrolled.

More than half of enrollment at Daniel Webster School is White: 56%. The remaining shares are 26% Hispanic, 9% Asian, and 6% Black. Hudson County as a whole is about 32% White, so the school's share is higher. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 60%.

Daniel Webster School reports a ratio of 9.0 students per teacher, from 44.9 full-time-equivalent teachers. The school's 9.0:1 compares with an average of 11.4:1 for elementary schools in New Jersey. Lunch program data show 47% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals. That is lower than the 68% average for public schools in Hudson County.

Looking at the county, Hudson County, the median household earns about $91,795 a year, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 11% of people live in poverty. Hudson County has 130 public schools with about 86,216 students, including Daniel Webster School.

Daniel Webster School's closest public school neighbor is Jefferson Elementary School, about 0.3 miles away. The five-mile area around Daniel Webster School holds at least 8 other public schools.

By NCES locale, the school is Suburb: Large, or in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

The student count changed little between 2017-18 (414) and 2024-25 (406). The Hispanic share of enrollment dropped from 48% to 26% over the same period. The ratio of students to teachers went from 11.2:1 to 9.0:1 over the same years.

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