Evergreen Elementary School

Located at 1033 EVERGREEN AVE, in PLAINFIELD, New Jersey, Evergreen Elementary School is a middle-of-the-pack elementary school that works with 398 students (grades K through 5), part of Plainfield Public School District.

Plainfield Public School District comprises 15 schools with combined enrollment of 8,522 students; Evergreen Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Evergreen Elementary School reports that nearly all students (88%) are Hispanic. Beyond that, the school reports 9% Black, 2% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 35%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Evergreen Elementary School has 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.6:1. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 75% of students at Evergreen Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Union County runs at roughly 52%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Evergreen Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.0%, the actual is 14.6%, a residual of -10.4 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Union County) records that the typical household earns roughly $103,202 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Evergreen Elementary School is one of 180 public schools in Union County (combined enrollment of about 99,046 students).

Nearest neighbor: Plainfield High School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Evergreen Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Evergreen Elementary School at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 17.7%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Evergreen Elementary School has decreased 28%, going from 550 students in 2018 to 398 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 8.6:1 today.

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