Enrollment
269
Elementary
DISTRICT 329 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EAST ORANGE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340423002058
Ecole Toussaint Louverture
330 CENTRAL AVE, EAST ORANGE, NJ 07018 · (973) 266-5940 · Essex County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL269 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 5% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats 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
14.2:1
19 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
22%
59 students
DISTRICT 19% · STATE 41%
Community
0
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 | 30 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 34 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 45 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 34 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 36 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 50 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 40 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (34) is 15% smaller than its 5th grade class (40).
Student demographics
36%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 37% · 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
34.0%
NJ avg 53.1% . +7.2pp since 2023
Math
24.0%
NJ avg 41.6% . +8.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 24 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 34.0% | 24.0% |
| 2023-24 | 26.8% | 15.7% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NJ schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
21.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.2%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-32.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 22% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 54% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Ecole Toussaint Louverture
Ecole Toussaint Louverture's state test result (21.9% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecole Toussaint Louverture this school | 269 | 21.9% | 21.9% |
| Gordon Parks Academy EAST ORANGE | 268 | 23.5% | N/A |
| Mildred Barry Garvin Elementary EAST ORANGE | 245 | 12.7% | 22.3% |
| Whitney E. Houston Academy EAST ORANGE | 385 | 14.0% | 27.1% |
| Shelia Y. Oliver Academy EAST ORANGE | 413 | 14.8% | 31.9% |
| Wahlstrom Early Childhood Academy EAST ORANGE | 157 | 31.8% | N/A |
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 Ecole Toussaint Louverture ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Essex County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 21.9% | #1,100 of 1,290 | #91 of 131 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 24.0% | #1,084 of 1,319 ▲ 83 | #92 of 141 ▲ 11 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 34.0% | #1,042 of 1,319 ▲ 73 | #98 of 141 ▲ 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 269 | #1,226 of 1,562 | #126 of 162 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.2:1 | #1,257 of 1,390 | #96 of 140 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 36.3% | #1,133 of 1,392 | #104 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 21.9% | #1,000 of 1,481 | #97 of 142 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.8% | #751 of 798 | #68 of 73 |
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
269
-4 (-1%) vs 2020
-50% since 1990-91, when it was 541
Student : Teacher
14.2:1
was 13.7:1
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 | 269 | 19 | 14.2:1 | 22% (59) |
| 2023-24 | 262 | 18 | 14.6:1 | 60% (158) |
| 2022-23 | 272 | 17 | 16.0:1 | 53% (143) |
| 2020-21 | 273 | 20 | 13.7:1 | 74% (202) |
| 2017-18 | 274 | 23.4 | 11.7:1 | 65% (177) |
| 2015-16 | 299 | 25 | 12.0:1 | 83% (249) |
| 2010-11 | 324 | 24 | 13.5:1 | 77% (251) |
| 2000-01 | 377 | 26 | 14.5:1 | 56% (212) |
| 1990-91 | 541 | 30 | 18.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Ecole Toussaint Louverture.
Since 2017-18: students down 2% (274 to 269); teachers down 19% (23.4 to 19).
About Ecole Toussaint Louverture
A small elementary school in EAST ORANGE, New Jersey, Ecole Toussaint Louverture is part of East Orange School District. The school enrolls 269 students, from pre-K through 5. Average enrollment for elementary schools in New Jersey is about 405, so this school runs 34% smaller than that.
East Orange School District oversees Ecole Toussaint Louverture and 18 other schools, with 8,348 students in total.
Black students are the majority at Ecole Toussaint Louverture, with 78% of enrollment. The school is also 18% Hispanic. The Black share of the county population is lower, at 36%. The school's diversity index is 36%, meaning two students picked at random have a 36% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Its teaching staff equals 19 full-time positions, a ratio of 14.2:1. That is higher than the 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility, a common measure of family income, is 22%. The gap from the 54% average for public schools in Essex County is 32 points.
Ecole Toussaint Louverture is graded D by allk12, scoring above 5% of New Jersey public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Schools in New Jersey with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to post an average proficiency rate on state tests near 54.2%. Ecole Toussaint Louverture posts 21.9%, 32.2 points below that, which places it in the bottom 10% statewide on BeatsExpectations.
In Essex County (population about 863,002), the median household income is $80,789, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 39% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 11%. There are 249 public schools in Essex County, enrolling about 145,473 students in all.
Nearby, Pride Academy Charter School is about 0.3 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Ecole Toussaint Louverture ranks 4th of 5 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 21.9% against a local average of 27.1%.
In the federal locale system, Ecole Toussaint Louverture is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2020-21, Ecole Toussaint Louverture enrolled 273; in 2024-25, 269.
The Ecole Toussaint Louverture community page is open for posts about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Essex County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
863,002
Census ACS
Median income
$80,789
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
249
145,473 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in East Orange School District
- East Orange Campus High SchoolHigh · 1,798 students
- Cicely L. Tyson Community Middle/High SchoolHigh · 701 students
- East Orange STEM Academy High SchoolHigh · 646 students
- Edward T. Bowser Sr. School of ExcellenceElementary · 612 students
- Langston Hughes Elementary SchoolElementary · 554 students
- Cicely L. Tyson Community Elementary SchoolElementary · 481 students
Other schools in EAST ORANGE
- East Orange Campus High SchoolHigh · 1,798 students
- Cicely L. Tyson Community Middle/High SchoolHigh · 701 students
- East Orange STEM Academy High SchoolHigh · 646 students
- Edward T. Bowser Sr. School of ExcellenceElementary · 612 students
- Langston Hughes Elementary SchoolElementary · 554 students
- Cicely L. Tyson Community Elementary SchoolElementary · 481 students
Nearby schools
- Pride Academy Charter School0.3 mi · 300
- Langston Hughes Elementary School0.4 mi · 554
- Dionne Warwick Institute0.5 mi · 379
- Cicely L. Tyson Community Elementary School0.5 mi · 481
- Cicely L. Tyson Community Middle/High School0.6 mi · 701
- Speedway Avenue School0.7 mi · 525
Frequently asked questions
About Ecole Toussaint LouvertureHow large is Ecole Toussaint Louverture?
Ecole Toussaint Louverture enrolls approximately 269 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Ecole Toussaint Louverture serve?
Ecole Toussaint Louverture serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Ecole Toussaint Louverture?
Approximately 14.2:1 students per teacher at Ecole Toussaint Louverture.
What is the student diversity at Ecole Toussaint Louverture?
Student demographics at Ecole Toussaint Louverture are roughly 1% White, 18% Hispanic, 78% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Ecole Toussaint Louverture?
Ecole Toussaint Louverture is overseen by East Orange School District in Essex County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.