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Best kept secret at Grover Cleveland Elementary School?
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Enrollment
453
Elementary
DISTRICT 526 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·RAHWAY PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341353005642
Grover Cleveland Elementary School
486 E MILTON AVE, RAHWAY, NJ 07065 · (732) 396-1040 · Union County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL453 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 26% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats 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
11.0:1
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.3:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
67%
302 students
DISTRICT 62% · STATE 41%
Community
1
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 | 52 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 49 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 53 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 59 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 58 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 64 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 51 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 67 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (49) is 27% smaller than its 6th grade class (67).
Student demographics
62%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within Rahway Public School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
46.8%
NJ avg 53.1% . +12.9pp since 2023
Math
25.7%
NJ avg 41.6% . +6.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 26 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 13 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 46.8% | 25.7% |
| 2023-24 | 33.9% | 18.9% |
% 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
29.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
29.7%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 29% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 30% 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 (29.0% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grover Cleveland Elementary School this school | 453 | 66.7% | 29.0% |
| Parkway Elementary School EWING | 418 | 64.8% | 17.9% |
| Park Avenue Elementary School ORANGE | 423 | 65.2% | 22.1% |
| Forest Street Community Elementary School ORANGE | 384 | 70.1% | 32.7% |
| Washington Elementary School ROSELLE | 397 | 75.1% | 25.6% |
| Abram P. Morris Early Childhood Center HILLSIDE | 625 | 69.3% | N/A |
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 Union County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 29.0% | #978 of 1,290 | #55 of 92 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 25.7% | #1,058 of 1,319 ▲ 57 | #61 of 93 ▲ 14 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 46.8% | #794 of 1,319 ▲ 205 | #48 of 93 ▲ 17 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 453 | #534 of 1,562 | #44 of 108 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.0:1 | #618 of 1,390 | #20 of 103 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 61.7% | #424 of 1,392 | #22 of 103 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 66.7% | #394 of 1,481 | #50 of 105 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -19.0% | #184 of 798 | #4 of 58 |
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
453
-60 (-12%) vs 2020
+97% since 1990-91, when it was 230
Student : Teacher
11.0:1
was 12.8:1
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 | 453 | 41.1 | 11.0:1 | 67% (302) |
| 2023-24 | 470 | 38.8 | 12.1:1 | 70% (328) |
| 2022-23 | 469 | 37.8 | 12.4:1 | 60% (281) |
| 2020-21 | 513 | 40 | 12.8:1 | 59% (302) |
| 2017-18 | 559 | 44 | 12.7:1 | 63% (353) |
| 2015-16 | 528 | 36 | 14.7:1 | 63% (333) |
| 2010-11 | 306 | 18 | 17.0:1 | 61% (187) |
| 2000-01 | 261 | 15 | 17.4:1 | 46% (120) |
| 1990-91 | 230 | 14 | 16.4:1 | 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 19% (559 to 453); teachers down 7% (44 to 41.1).
About Grover Cleveland Elementary School
Grover Cleveland Elementary School is an elementary school with a street address in RAHWAY, New Jersey. The grade span is pre-K through 6, and enrollment is 453 students.
Rahway Public School District is made up of 6 schools with 4,090 students in all.
Federal enrollment data show Black students as the largest group at Grover Cleveland Elementary School, at 47%. Enrollment also includes 40% Hispanic, 5% White, 4% Asian, and 4% multiracial. Among people living in Union County, the Black share is about 20%. The school's diversity index is 62%, meaning two students picked at random have a 62% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
The school reported 41.1 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25 and a ratio of 11.0:1. For comparison, elementary schools in New Jersey average 11.4:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 67%. Compared with the 52% average for public schools in Union County, the school's rate is higher.
Grover Cleveland Elementary School is graded C by allk12, scoring above 26% of New Jersey public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Grover Cleveland Elementary School's actual average proficiency rate on state tests (29.0%) and its predicted rate (29.7%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of New Jersey schools.
Union County census figures show that the median household income is $103,202, about 39% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. In all, Union County has 180 public schools and roughly 99,046 students.
The nearest other public school, Roosevelt Elementary School, is about 1.1 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Grover Cleveland Elementary School ranks 5th of 9 on average proficiency.
The school's federal locale classification is Suburb: Large.
The school enrolled 453 students in 2024-25, 60 fewer than the 513 it had in 2020-21. Federal data show the ratio falling from 12.8:1 to 11.0:1.
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Union County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
579,290
Census ACS
Median income
$103,202
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
180
99,046 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Rahway Public School District
- Rahway High SchoolHigh · 1,286 students
- Rahway 7th & 8th Grade AcademyMiddle · 701 students
- Franklin Elementary SchoolElementary · 658 students
- Roosevelt Elementary SchoolElementary · 608 students
- Madison Elementary SchoolElementary · 384 students
Other schools in RAHWAY
- Rahway High SchoolHigh · 1,286 students
- Rahway 7th & 8th Grade AcademyMiddle · 701 students
- Franklin Elementary SchoolElementary · 658 students
- Roosevelt Elementary SchoolElementary · 608 students
- Madison Elementary SchoolElementary · 384 students
Other Grover Cleveland Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 2 states are named Grover Cleveland Elementary. Grover Cleveland Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 3.
- Grover Cleveland Elementary SchoolNEWARK, NJ · 321 students
- Grover Cleveland Elementary SchoolErie, PA · 559 students
Nearby schools
- Roosevelt Elementary School1.1 mi · 608
- Franklin Elementary School1.2 mi · 658
- Woodbine Avenue Elementary School1.4 mi · 401
- Madison Elementary School1.4 mi · 384
- Rahway High School1.4 mi · 1,286
- Avenel Middle School1.5 mi · 629
Frequently asked questions
About Grover Cleveland Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Grover Cleveland Elementary School?
Grover Cleveland Elementary School enrolls approximately 453 students in grades PK-06.
What grades does Grover Cleveland Elementary School serve?
Grover Cleveland Elementary School serves grades PK-06.
How many teachers does Grover Cleveland Elementary School have?
Grover Cleveland Elementary School employs 41 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.0:1.
How diverse is Grover Cleveland Elementary School?
Grover Cleveland Elementary School reports a student body of 5% White, 40% Hispanic, 47% Black, 4% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Grover Cleveland Elementary School?
Grover Cleveland Elementary School is overseen by Rahway Public School District in Union County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.