Grove Street Elementary School

Grove Street Elementary School is a primary school of average-sized scale in IRVINGTON, New Jersey, one of the schools within Irvington Public School District, caters to 443 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 12 schools in Irvington Public School District (7,659 students total), Grove Street Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Grove Street Elementary School shows that the largest single group is Black, at 79% of enrollment; the rest consists of 21% Hispanic. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 36%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.8:1. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 90% of students at Grove Street Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Essex County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Grove Street Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 16.7%; this one delivers 18.3%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Essex County put the typical household earns roughly $80,789 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Grove Street Elementary School is one of 249 public schools in Essex County (combined enrollment of about 145,473 students).

Nearest neighbor: South 17th Street School, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Grove Street Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Grove Street Elementary School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 16.1%.

Grove Street Elementary School operates from a commuter-belt location.

Five-year trend. Grove Street Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 11% since 2018, when it stood at 500 (now 443). The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 9% to 21% over that span.

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