East Orange Community Charter School

As a reasonably sized elementary-level community in EAST ORANGE, New Jersey, East Orange Community Charter School serves 414 students from grades K through 4, run under East Orange Community Charter School.

East Orange Community Charter School is a school of East Orange Community Charter School, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

For racial and ethnic makeup, East Orange Community Charter School records that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (93%); the rest breaks down as 7% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 36% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, East Orange Community Charter School has 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. An estimated 85% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Essex County's rate of about 54%.

After controlling for student poverty, East Orange Community Charter School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 19.8%, the actual is 29.8%, a residual of +10.1 points.

In the broader community, Essex County reports that median household earnings sit near $80,789, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 East Orange Community Charter School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Park Avenue Elementary School, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, East Orange Community Charter School comes 1st of 4 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 23.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area. As a public charter, East Orange Community Charter School runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Over the past 7-year window. East Orange Community Charter School's enrollment has contracted 16% since 2018, when it stood at 491 (now 414). The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 21.8:1 today.

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