Enrollment
334
Elementary
DISTRICT 335 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WEST ORANGE PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 341761002484
Hazel Avenue Elementary School
45 HAZEL AVE, W ORANGE, NJ 07052 · (973) 669-5448 · Essex County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL334 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 72% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
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
9.7:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.9:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
59%
196 students
DISTRICT 39% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 53 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 53 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 59 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 41 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 69 | 21% |
| Grade 5 | 59 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (53) is 10% smaller than its 5th grade class (59).
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · 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
Hazel Avenue Elementary School→Edison Middle School
Based on grade levels within West Orange Public Schools. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
56.7%
NJ avg 53.1% . -5.3pp since 2023
Math
45.5%
NJ avg 41.6% . -2.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 57 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 46 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 56.7% | 45.5% |
| 2023-24 | 62.0% | 48.4% |
% 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
48.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
34.0%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 34% 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 Hazel Avenue Elementary School
Hazel Avenue Elementary School's state test result (48.4% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hazel Avenue Elementary School this school | 334 | 58.7% | 48.4% |
| Number 9 Linden | 311 | 60.5% | 38.9% |
| James Russell Lowell Elementary School TEANECK | 320 | 55.3% | 50.8% |
| Watsessing Elementary School Bloomfield | 333 | 52.9% | 38.6% |
| McGalliard Elementary School HAMILTON | 294 | 59.2% | 29.2% |
| Woodrow Wilson NEPTUNE CITY | 264 | 56.1% | 17.1% |
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 Hazel Avenue Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Essex County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 48.4% | #561 of 1,290 | #50 of 131 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 45.5% | #679 of 1,319 ▼ 102 | #57 of 141 ▼ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 56.7% | #562 of 1,319 ▼ 153 | #58 of 141 ▼ 15 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 334 | #968 of 1,562 | #114 of 162 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.7:1 | #277 of 1,390 | #12 of 140 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.7% | #336 of 1,392 | #20 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 58.7% | #474 of 1,481 | #78 of 142 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +0.6% | #532 of 545 | #58 of 61 |
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
334
+14 (+4%) vs 2020
+20% since 1990-91, when it was 279
Student : Teacher
9.7:1
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 | 334 | 34.4 | 9.7:1 | 59% (196) |
| 2023-24 | 326 | 32.4 | 10.1:1 | 59% (193) |
| 2022-23 | 328 | 32.3 | 10.2:1 | 53% (175) |
| 2020-21 | 320 | 30 | 10.7:1 | 50% (161) |
| 2017-18 | 332 | 30.9 | 10.7:1 | 62% (205) |
| 2015-16 | 366 | 31 | 11.8:1 | 66% (242) |
| 2010-11 | 357 | 26 | 13.7:1 | 51% (181) |
| 2000-01 | 332 | 26 | 12.8:1 | 27% (88) |
| 1990-91 | 279 | 20 | 13.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hazel Avenue Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 1% (332 to 334); teachers up 11% (30.9 to 34.4).
About Hazel Avenue Elementary School
Hazel Avenue Elementary School runs as a low-enrollment elementary school in W ORANGE, New Jersey. It offers kindergarten through 5 and has 334 students enrolled.
West Orange Public Schools counts 6,616 students in its 13 schools, and Hazel Avenue Elementary School is one of them.
The largest group at Hazel Avenue Elementary School is Hispanic students, at 50%. Other students are 28% Black, 15% White, and 6% multiracial. That is higher than the 25% Hispanic share among all Essex County residents. The diversity index for Hazel Avenue Elementary School is 65%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The school had 34.4 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25. Its student-to-teacher ratio is 9.7:1. The school's 9.7:1 compares with an average of 11.4:1 for elementary schools in New Jersey. The eligibility rate for free or reduced-price meals is 59%.
Among New Jersey public elementary schools, Hazel Avenue Elementary School outscored 72%, which works out to a B+ on the allk12 Grade.
Hazel Avenue Elementary School is 14.4 points above its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (48.4% versus 34.0%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in New Jersey.
The county, Essex County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $80,789 a year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 11% of people live in poverty. Essex County has 249 public schools with about 145,473 students, including Hazel Avenue Elementary School.
Measured in a straight line, Forest Street Community Elementary School is about 0.3 miles from Hazel Avenue Elementary School. The five-mile area around Hazel Avenue Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools. Among 9 nearby schools that report test results, Hazel Avenue Elementary School ranks 2nd on proficiency.
The school's locale code, Suburb: Large, means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 334, up from 320 in 2020-21.
This page is set up for the Hazel Avenue Elementary School community to discuss special education services, counseling, and support programs. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
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
Related schools
Other schools in West Orange Public Schools
- West Orange High SchoolHigh · 2,106 students
- Liberty Middle SchoolMiddle · 559 students
- Gregory Elementary SchoolElementary · 484 students
- Edison Middle SchoolMiddle · 477 students
- Roosevelt Middle SchoolMiddle · 457 students
- Kelly Elementary SchoolElementary · 451 students
Other schools in W ORANGE
- Gregory Elementary SchoolElementary · 484 students
- Edison Middle SchoolMiddle · 477 students
- Roosevelt Middle SchoolMiddle · 457 students
- Kelly Elementary SchoolElementary · 451 students
- Redwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 446 students
- St. Cloud Elementary SchoolElementary · 436 students
Nearby schools
- Forest Street Community Elementary School0.3 mi · 384
- Roosevelt Middle School0.4 mi · 457
- Gregory Elementary School0.6 mi · 484
- Orange High School0.6 mi · 1,368
- Orange Preparatory Academy School of Inquiry and Innovation0.7 mi · 397
- Lincoln Avenue Elementary School0.7 mi · 728
Frequently asked questions
About Hazel Avenue Elementary SchoolHow large is Hazel Avenue Elementary School?
Hazel Avenue Elementary School enrolls approximately 334 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Hazel Avenue Elementary School serve?
Hazel Avenue Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Hazel Avenue Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Hazel Avenue Elementary School is approximately 9.7:1 (34 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Hazel Avenue Elementary School?
At Hazel Avenue Elementary School, the student body is approximately 15% White, 50% Hispanic, 28% Black, 1% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is Hazel Avenue Elementary School public or private?
Hazel Avenue Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by West Orange Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.