George Washington Carver Elementary School

Located at 333 CLINTON PL, in NEWARK, New Jersey, George Washington Carver Elementary School is a roomy primary school that hosts 736 students (grades pre-K through 8), operated by Newark Public School District. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 405 students each, so George Washington Carver Elementary School sits 82% above that benchmark.

Newark Public School District comprises 65 schools with combined enrollment of 41,502 students; George Washington Carver Elementary School is among them.

In terms of who attends, George Washington Carver Elementary School shows that 57% of the student body identifies as Black. Other groups include 40% Hispanic. By comparison, Essex County as a whole is about 36% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school employs 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. Around 64% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Essex County's rate of about 54%.

After controlling for student poverty, George Washington Carver Elementary School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 31.4%; this one comes in at 9.7%, -21.6 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, census data for Essex County shows the typical household earns roughly $80,789 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Essex County's 249 public schools (combined enrollment of about 145,473 students), George Washington Carver Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Bruce Street School, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, George Washington Carver Elementary School comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 14.8%.

George Washington Carver Elementary School operates from a city-core location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at George Washington Carver Elementary School has edged up 62%, going from 455 students in 2018 to 736 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 95% to 57% across the same window.

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