Elliott Street Elementary School

Elliott Street Elementary School operates as a high-enrollment K-5 school in NEWARK, New Jersey, run under Newark Public School District. Current enrollment sits at 880 students spanning grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 117% larger than the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 405 students.

Newark Public School District runs 65 schools in total, collectively educating 41,502 students. Elliott Street Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Elliott Street Elementary School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (91%); the rest reads as 8% Black. By comparison, Essex County as a whole is about 25% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 60 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. Roughly 88% of students at Elliott Street Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Essex County (around 54%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Elliott Street Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 18.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 22.0%.

Across the wider county, census data for Essex County shows median household income runs about $80,789, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Elliott Street Elementary School is one of 249 public schools in Essex County (combined enrollment of about 145,473 students).

Nearest neighbor: Newark School of Fashion & Design, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Elliott Street Elementary School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 29.9%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Five-year trend. Elliott Street Elementary School's enrollment has climbed 18% since 2018, when it stood at 745 (now 880). The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 85% to 91% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 in 2025.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.