Dr. Maya Angelou Elementary School

Set in JERSEY CITY, New Jersey, Dr. Maya Angelou Elementary School is a mid-sized primary school, run under Jersey City Public Schools. It educates 607 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 405 students each, so Dr. Maya Angelou Elementary School sits 50% above that benchmark.

Across the 39 schools in Jersey City Public Schools (24,151 students total), Dr. Maya Angelou Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Dr. Maya Angelou Elementary School logs that 47% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest consists of 37% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 6% White. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 12%.

Looking at school resources, Dr. Maya Angelou Elementary School lists 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. Roughly 77% of students at Dr. Maya Angelou Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Hudson County runs at roughly 68%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Dr. Maya Angelou Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 24.0%, the actual is 32.5%, a residual of +8.5 points.

In the area at large, Hudson County reports that the typical household earns roughly $91,795 per year, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Hudson County runs 130 public schools (combined enrollment of about 86,216 students), of which Dr. Maya Angelou Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Jersey City Community Charter School, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Dr. Maya Angelou Elementary School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 33.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Dr. Maya Angelou Elementary School has shrank 25%, going from 809 students in 2018 to 607 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 19.3:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.