Grover Cleveland Elementary School

As a medium-sized elementary school in RAHWAY, New Jersey, Grover Cleveland Elementary School teaches 453 students from grades pre-K through 6, part of Rahway Public School District.

Rahway Public School District comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 4,090 students; Grover Cleveland Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Grover Cleveland Elementary School shows that the most-represented group is Black (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 40% Hispanic, 5% White, 4% Asian, 4% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 20%.

On the resource side, Grover Cleveland Elementary School reports 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 67% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Union County (around 52%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Grover Cleveland Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.7%, the actual is 29.0%, a residual of -0.7 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Union County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $103,202 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Grover Cleveland Elementary School is one of 180 public schools in Union County (combined enrollment of about 99,046 students).

The closest other public school is Roosevelt Elementary School, roughly 1.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Grover Cleveland Elementary School at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 29.5%.

Grover Cleveland Elementary School operates from a bedroom-community location.

Looking at the recent track record. Grover Cleveland Elementary School's enrollment has ticked down 19% since 2018, when it stood at 559 (now 453). The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 32% to 40% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 in 2025.

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