1
Enrollment
541
Elementary
DISTRICT 491 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340549005198
Elizabeth Avenue School
363 Elizabeth Avenue, Somerset, NJ 08873 · (732) 356-0113 · Somerset County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL541 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 39% 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.
- B-Beats 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
10.0:1
54 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.5:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
53%
285 students
DISTRICT 52% · STATE 41%
Community
1
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 | 37 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 80 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 61 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 87 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 94 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 96 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 86 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (80) is 7% smaller than its 5th grade class (86).
Student demographics
72%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · 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
47.3%
NJ avg 53.1% . +4.0pp since 2023
Math
45.1%
NJ avg 41.6% . +12.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 45 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 12 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 47.3% | 45.1% |
| 2023-24 | 43.3% | 33.0% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
38.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
37.3%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 37% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New Jersey's top nor bottom 10%.
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 Elizabeth Avenue School
Elizabeth Avenue School's state test result (38.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elizabeth Avenue School this school | 541 | 52.7% | 38.3% |
| Arthur M. Judd NORTH BRUNSWICK | 587 | 50.6% | 43.4% |
| Frank R Conwell School JERSEY CITY | 605 | 56.5% | 43.7% |
| Livingston Park NORTH BRUNSWICK | 494 | 54.5% | 36.8% |
| Claremont Elementary School Franklin Park | 685 | 56.6% | 37.9% |
| Fairview Elementary School Bloomfield | 499 | 50.1% | 42.2% |
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 Elizabeth Avenue School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Somerset County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 38.3% | #795 of 1,290 | #34 of 42 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 45.1% | #689 of 1,319 ▲ 174 | #33 of 42 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 47.3% | #784 of 1,319 ▲ 38 | #33 of 42 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 541 | #322 of 1,562 | #9 of 46 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.0:1 | #347 of 1,390 | #27 of 45 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 72.5% | #74 of 1,392 | #6 of 45 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 52.7% | #556 of 1,481 | #12 of 45 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -0.6% | #785 of 798 | #30 of 31 |
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
541
+20 (+4%) vs 2020
+90% since 1990-91, when it was 284
Student : Teacher
10.0:1
was 10.4:1
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 | 541 | 53.9 | 10.0:1 | 53% (285) |
| 2023-24 | 561 | 55.4 | 10.1:1 | 44% (249) |
| 2022-23 | 554 | 57.3 | 9.7:1 | 46% (255) |
| 2020-21 | 521 | 50 | 10.4:1 | 43% (225) |
| 2017-18 | 544 | 44.9 | 12.1:1 | 65% (351) |
| 2015-16 | 624 | 48 | 13.0:1 | 62% (388) |
| 2010-11 | 617 | 28 | 22.0:1 | 49% (304) |
| 2000-01 | 599 | 32 | 18.7:1 | 25% (149) |
| 1990-91 | 284 | 20 | 14.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Elizabeth Avenue School.
Since 2017-18: students down 1% (544 to 541); teachers up 20% (44.9 to 53.9).
About Elizabeth Avenue School
Elizabeth Avenue School is one of the public schools in Somerset, New Jersey. It is a medium-sized elementary school. School enrollment was 541 students in 2024-25, in pre-K through 5. For comparison, elementary schools in New Jersey average about 405 students.
Franklin Township Public School District runs 10 schools with a combined 6,950 students. Elizabeth Avenue School is one of them.
Hispanic students are the largest group at Elizabeth Avenue School, with 41% of enrollment. The remaining shares are 26% Black, 14% Asian, 13% White, and 5% multiracial. Somerset County as a whole is about 18% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. The chance that two students picked at random at Elizabeth Avenue School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 72%.
Federal records show a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.0:1 at Elizabeth Avenue School, with 53.9 full-time-equivalent teachers. The 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey is higher than this school's figure. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility, a common measure of family income, is 53%. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Somerset County is 28%.
The allk12 Grade for Elizabeth Avenue School is C+. Compared with New Jersey public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 39% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Elizabeth Avenue School falls in the middle 80% of New Jersey schools: 38.3% actual against 37.3% predicted.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Somerset County show that median household income is about $140,374, 58% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 4% of people live in poverty. Federal data list 84 public schools in Somerset County, with a combined enrollment of about 51,276.
Of nearby public schools, Robert Morris School is the closest, at about 0.8 miles. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Its average proficiency rate of 38.3% is above the 34.5% average for nearby schools.
The school's locale code, Suburb: Large, means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, Elizabeth Avenue School went from 521 students to 541.
Threads on this page can be about school events, clubs, and volunteer needs. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Somerset County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
349,846
Census ACS
Median income
$140,374
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
58%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
84
51,276 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Franklin Township Public School District
- Franklin High SchoolHigh · 2,134 students
- Franklin Middle School at Sampson G. Smith CampusMiddle · 787 students
- Claremont Elementary SchoolElementary · 685 students
- Franklin Park SchoolElementary · 671 students
- Franklin Middle School at Hamilton Street CampusMiddle · 592 students
- Hillcrest SchoolElementary · 439 students
Other schools in Somerset
- Franklin High SchoolHigh · 2,134 students
- Central Jersey College Prep Charter SchoolCombined · 1,396 students
- Franklin Middle School at Sampson G. Smith CampusMiddle · 787 students
- Thomas Edison EnergySmart Charter SchoolCombined · 613 students
- Franklin Middle School at Hamilton Street CampusMiddle · 592 students
- Hillcrest SchoolElementary · 439 students
Nearby schools
- Robert Morris School0.8 mi · 445
- Thomas Edison EnergySmart Charter School1.2 mi · 613
- Community Middle School1.4 mi · 291
- LaMonte-Annex Elementary School1.5 mi · 374
- Lafayette Elementary School1.6 mi · 249
- Bound Brook High School1.8 mi · 579
Frequently asked questions
About Elizabeth Avenue SchoolHow many students attend Elizabeth Avenue School?
Elizabeth Avenue School enrolls approximately 541 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Elizabeth Avenue School serve?
Elizabeth Avenue School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Elizabeth Avenue School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Elizabeth Avenue School is approximately 10.0:1 (54 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Elizabeth Avenue School?
Student demographics at Elizabeth Avenue School are roughly 13% White, 41% Hispanic, 26% Black, 14% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Elizabeth Avenue School in?
Elizabeth Avenue School is part of Franklin Township Public School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.