Ecole Toussaint Louverture

Located at 330 CENTRAL AVE, in EAST ORANGE, New Jersey, Ecole Toussaint Louverture is a close-knit elementary school that instructs 269 students (grades pre-K through 5), part of East Orange School District. Enrollment runs roughly 34% below the state mean of about 405.

East Orange School District comprises 19 schools with combined enrollment of 8,348 students; Ecole Toussaint Louverture is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Ecole Toussaint Louverture records that the largest single group is Black, at 78% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school reports 18% Hispanic. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 36%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.2:1. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 22% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Essex County's rate of about 54%.

With demographic context factored in, Ecole Toussaint Louverture is in the bottom 10% of New Jersey public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 54.2%; Ecole Toussaint Louverture posts 21.9%, -32.2 points below that line.

In the area at large, Essex County reports that the typical household earns roughly $80,789 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Essex County runs 249 public schools (combined enrollment of about 145,473 students), of which Ecole Toussaint Louverture is one.

Pride Academy Charter School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Ecole Toussaint Louverture. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Ecole Toussaint Louverture at 4th of 5; the average score across the group is 27.1%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Ecole Toussaint Louverture's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 274 (now 269). Black enrollment moved from 97% to 78% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 11.7:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 today.

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