Hazel Avenue Elementary School

Hazel Avenue Elementary School is one of the modestly sized K-5 schools in W ORANGE, New Jersey, part of West Orange Public Schools, with 334 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

West Orange Public Schools runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 6,616 students. Hazel Avenue Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Hazel Avenue Elementary School records that 50% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest breaks down as 28% Black, 15% White, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Essex County as a whole is about 25% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Hazel Avenue Elementary School lists 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. Roughly 59% of students at Hazel Avenue Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Hazel Avenue Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 34.0%; this one delivers 48.4%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Essex County indicate median household earnings sit near $80,789, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Essex County's 249 public schools (combined enrollment of about 145,473 students), Hazel Avenue Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Forest Street Community Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hazel Avenue Elementary School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hazel Avenue Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 35.2%.

Hazel Avenue Elementary School operates from an outer-ring location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 332 students in 2018 compared to 334 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 9% to 15% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 10.7:1 in 2018 to 9.7:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Hazel Avenue Elementary School community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.