Enrollment
321
Elementary
DISTRICT 638 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEWARK PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341134002262
Grover Cleveland Elementary School
388 BERGEN ST, NEWARK, NJ 07103 · (973) 733-6944 · Essex County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL321 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 4% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
14.6:1
22 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.0:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
77%
247 students
DISTRICT 80% · STATE 41%
Community
0
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 | 41 | 13% |
| Kindergarten | 29 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 28 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 36 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 21 | 7% |
| Grade 4 | 29 | 9% |
| Grade 5 | 31 | 10% |
| Grade 6 | 35 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 36 | 11% |
| Grade 8 | 35 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (29) is 17% smaller than its 8th grade class (35).
Student demographics
41%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 53% · 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
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NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
23.8%
NJ avg 53.1% . +3.5pp since 2023
Math
8.3%
NJ avg 41.6% . -1.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 24 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 8 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 down about 2 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 23.8% | 8.3% |
| 2023-24 | 20.3% | 10.2% |
% 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
13.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
24.1%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 14% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 24% 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 Grover Cleveland Elementary School
Grover Cleveland Elementary School's state test result (13.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grover Cleveland Elementary School this school | 321 | 76.9% | 13.5% |
| University Elementary School IRVINGTON | 384 | 80.2% | 19.9% |
| Riletta Twyne Cream Early Childhood Center CAMDEN | 349 | 73.6% | 15.6% |
| Dr Lena Edwards Academic Charter School Jersey City | 383 | 77.3% | 18.9% |
| Lincoln Elementary School NEWARK | 420 | 79.3% | 12.1% |
| Oakwood Avenue Community School ORANGE | 272 | 75.0% | 19.1% |
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 Grover Cleveland Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Essex County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 13.5% | #1,216 of 1,290 | #120 of 131 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 8.3% | #1,278 of 1,319 ▼ 31 | #137 of 141 ▼ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 23.8% | #1,188 of 1,319 ▲ 17 | #121 of 141 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 321 | #1,018 of 1,562 | #117 of 162 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.6:1 | #1,284 of 1,390 | #102 of 140 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 40.6% | #1,034 of 1,392 | #86 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 76.9% | #254 of 1,481 | #49 of 142 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -32.7% | #45 of 798 | #6 of 73 |
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
321
-97 (-23%) vs 2020
-29% since 1990-91, when it was 449
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
was 10.7:1
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 | 321 | 22 | 14.6:1 | 77% (247) |
| 2023-24 | 318 | 29 | 11.0:1 | 81% (256) |
| 2022-23 | 341 | 28 | 12.2:1 | 84% (288) |
| 2020-21 | 418 | 39 | 10.7:1 | 81% (339) |
| 2017-18 | 477 | 34 | 14.0:1 | 84% (402) |
| 2015-16 | 414 | 31 | 13.3:1 | 86% (358) |
| 2010-11 | 254 | 26 | 9.8:1 | 96% (244) |
| 2000-01 | 314 | 35 | 9.0:1 | 99% (311) |
| 1990-91 | 449 | 32 | 14.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Grover Cleveland Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 33% (477 to 321); teachers down 35% (34 to 22).
About Grover Cleveland Elementary School
Grover Cleveland Elementary School is a public small elementary school in NEWARK, New Jersey. Its 321 students are spread across pre-K through 8. The school's enrollment is 21% smaller than the 405 average for elementary schools in New Jersey.
Newark Public School District is the district for Grover Cleveland Elementary School. It has 65 schools and 41,502 students.
Black students are the majority at Grover Cleveland Elementary School, with 72% of enrollment. Smaller groups are 27% Hispanic. Essex County's residents are about 36% Black, 36 points below the school's share. Grover Cleveland Elementary School's diversity index is 41%, against a US figure of 70%.
Dividing enrollment by its 22 full-time-equivalent teachers gives a ratio of about 14.6:1. That is higher than the 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey. Eligible students account for 77% of enrollment in the free or reduced-price lunch program. Public schools in Essex County average 54%.
Grover Cleveland Elementary School is graded F by allk12, scoring above 4% of New Jersey public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Grover Cleveland Elementary School is -10.5 points: 13.5% actual, 24.1% predicted.
Across Essex County, the median household income is $80,789, roughly 39% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Essex County is home to 249 public schools and about 145,473 public school students.
Central High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles away. The five-mile area around Grover Cleveland Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools. Grover Cleveland Elementary School's average proficiency of 13.5% compares with 15.5% for its nearest scored neighbors.
The school's locale code, City: Large, means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school enrolled 321 students in 2024-25, 97 fewer than the 418 it had in 2020-21. The student-to-teacher ratio went up from 10.7:1 to 14.6:1.
Conversations here can range across school safety, transportation, and start times. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Essex County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
863,002
Census ACS
Median income
$80,789
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
249
145,473 students
Quick facts
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Other Grover Cleveland Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 2 states are named Grover Cleveland Elementary. Grover Cleveland Elementary School is the 3rd largest of the 3.
- Grover Cleveland Elementary SchoolRAHWAY, NJ · 453 students
- Grover Cleveland Elementary SchoolErie, PA · 559 students
Nearby schools
- Central High School0.2 mi · 1,051
- Bard Early College High School0.2 mi · 395
- Newark Vocational High School0.3 mi · 591
- Camden Street Elementary School0.3 mi · 685
- Harriet Tubman Elementary School0.4 mi · 298
- Avon Avenue School0.5 mi · 485
Frequently asked questions
About Grover Cleveland Elementary SchoolHow large is Grover Cleveland Elementary School?
Grover Cleveland Elementary School enrolls approximately 321 students in grades PK-08.
What age range does Grover Cleveland Elementary School serve?
Grover Cleveland Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Grover Cleveland Elementary School?
Approximately 14.6:1 students per teacher at Grover Cleveland Elementary School.
How diverse is Grover Cleveland Elementary School?
Grover Cleveland Elementary School reports a student body of 0% White, 27% Hispanic, 72% Black, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Grover Cleveland Elementary School?
Grover Cleveland Elementary School is overseen by Newark Public School District in Essex County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.