Dr Lena Edwards Academic Charter School

Dr Lena Edwards Academic Charter School is a K-5 school of moderately sized scale in Jersey City, New Jersey, operated by Dr Lena Edwards Academic Charter School, caters to 383 students in grades K through 8.

Dr Lena Edwards Academic Charter School is the operating authority for Dr Lena Edwards Academic Charter School, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

On demographics, Dr Lena Edwards Academic Charter School lists that 76% of the student body identifies as Black. Other groups include 22% Hispanic. By comparison, Hudson County as a whole is about 12% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Dr Lena Edwards Academic Charter School has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting Dr Lena Edwards Academic Charter School higher than the state norm the norm. Around 77% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Hudson County's rate of about 68%.

With demographic context factored in, Dr Lena Edwards Academic Charter School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 23.9%; this one delivers 18.9%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Hudson County) shows that median household earnings sit near $91,795, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Hudson County runs 130 public schools (combined enrollment of about 86,216 students), of which Dr Lena Edwards Academic Charter School is one.

Ollie Culbreth Jr. School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Dr Lena Edwards Academic Charter School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 21.1%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting. Dr Lena Edwards Academic Charter School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 384 students in 2018 compared to 383 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share edged down from 88% to 76%.

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