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Enrollment
632
Elementary
DISTRICT 596 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PERTH AMBOY PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341293003540
Herbert N. Richardson 21st Century School
318 STOCKTON STREET, PERTH AMBOY, NJ 08861 · (732) 376-6010 · Middlesex County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL632 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 6% 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
11.5:1
55 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.7:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
76%
481 students
DISTRICT 76% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 89 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 88 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 95 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 108 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 125 | 20% |
| Grade 5 | 127 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (89) is 30% smaller than its 5th grade class (127).
Student demographics
10%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 11% · 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
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
23.6%
NJ avg 53.1% . +3.9pp since 2023
Math
17.0%
NJ avg 41.6% . +4.2pp 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 17 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 up about 4 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 23.6% | 17.0% |
| 2023-24 | 19.7% | 12.8% |
% 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
15.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
24.5%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 16% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 25% 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 Herbert N. Richardson 21st Century School
Herbert N. Richardson 21st Century School's state test result (15.9% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Herbert N. Richardson 21st Century School this school | 632 | 76.1% | 15.9% |
| North Dover Elementary School DOVER | 640 | 75.0% | 21.0% |
| James J. Flynn Elementary School PERTH AMBOY | 599 | 75.1% | 22.5% |
| Ignacio Cruz Early Childhood Center PERTH AMBOY | 577 | 76.8% | N/A |
| Robert N. Wilentz Elementary School PERTH AMBOY | 616 | 79.9% | 21.1% |
| Colin Powell Elementary School Union City | 692 | 73.6% | 48.1% |
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 Herbert N. Richardson 21st Century School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Middlesex County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 15.9% | #1,188 of 1,290 | #107 of 111 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 17.0% | #1,198 of 1,319 ▲ 18 | #106 of 111 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 23.6% | #1,193 of 1,319 ▲ 19 | #105 of 111 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 632 | #179 of 1,562 | #17 of 130 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.5:1 | #739 of 1,390 | #65 of 120 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 9.7% | #1,375 of 1,392 | #117 of 121 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 76.1% | #268 of 1,481 | #15 of 128 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.9% | #186 of 798 | #32 of 84 |
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
632
+141 (+29%) vs 2020
+25% since 1990-91, when it was 507
Student : Teacher
11.5:1
was 8.5:1
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 | 632 | 55 | 11.5:1 | 76% (481) |
| 2023-24 | 684 | 58.5 | 11.7:1 | 75% (516) |
| 2022-23 | 458 | 56.5 | 8.1:1 | 89% (407) |
| 2020-21 | 491 | 58 | 8.5:1 | 89% (437) |
| 2017-18 | 779 | 71 | 11.0:1 | 96% (748) |
| 2015-16 | 835 | 68 | 12.3:1 | 85% (706) |
| 2010-11 | 670 | 57 | 11.8:1 | 70% (467) |
| 2000-01 | 521 | 43 | 12.1:1 | 90% (471) |
| 1990-91 | 507 | 33 | 15.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Herbert N. Richardson 21st Century School.
Since 2017-18: students down 19% (779 to 632); teachers down 23% (71 to 55).
About Herbert N. Richardson 21st Century School
At 318 STOCKTON STREET in PERTH AMBOY, New Jersey, Herbert N. Richardson 21st Century School operates as a high-enrollment elementary school. The school has 632 students in 2024-25 across kindergarten through 5. That compares with an average of about 405 students for elementary schools in New Jersey.
Across its 12 schools, Perth Amboy Public School District enrolls 9,845 students. Herbert N. Richardson 21st Century School is one of those schools.
Hispanic students are 95% of those enrolled at Herbert N. Richardson 21st Century School. Next come 4% Black. That compares with about 24% Hispanic among all Middlesex County residents. A diversity index of 10% means there is a 10% chance two randomly chosen students at Herbert N. Richardson 21st Century School are from different groups.
On staff are 55 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 11.5:1. The average for elementary schools in New Jersey is about 11.4:1. About 76% of students at Herbert N. Richardson 21st Century School are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. It compares with 42% for public schools in Middlesex County.
Herbert N. Richardson 21st Century School holds a D allk12 Grade, placing it above 6% of New Jersey public elementary schools.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, Herbert N. Richardson 21st Century School would be expected to post about 24.5%. Its actual average proficiency rate across its state test results is 15.9%.
In the wider Middlesex County area, the median household earns about $111,549 a year, about 46% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 6%. Herbert N. Richardson 21st Century School shares Middlesex County with 213 other public schools.
Rose M. Lopez Elementary School is the nearest public school to Herbert N. Richardson 21st Century School, about 0.3 miles away. Herbert N. Richardson 21st Century School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Nearby schools with test data average 21.1% proficiency; Herbert N. Richardson 21st Century School posts 15.9%.
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.
The school's enrollment increased 29% from 2020-21 to 2024-25. Students per teacher increased from 8.5 in 2020-21 to 11.5 in 2024-25.
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Middlesex County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
871,290
Census ACS
Median income
$111,549
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
46%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
214
129,255 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Perth Amboy Public School District
- Perth Amboy High SchoolHigh · 2,769 students
- William C. McGinnis Middle SchoolMiddle · 984 students
- Samuel E. Shull Middle SchoolMiddle · 941 students
- Rose M. Lopez Elementary SchoolElementary · 793 students
- Edward J. Patten Elementary SchoolElementary · 649 students
- Robert N. Wilentz Elementary SchoolElementary · 616 students
Other schools in PERTH AMBOY
- Perth Amboy High SchoolHigh · 2,769 students
- William C. McGinnis Middle SchoolMiddle · 984 students
- Samuel E. Shull Middle SchoolMiddle · 941 students
- Rose M. Lopez Elementary SchoolElementary · 793 students
- Middlesex County STEM Charter SchoolElementary · 739 students
- Edward J. Patten Elementary SchoolElementary · 649 students
Nearby schools
- Rose M. Lopez Elementary School0.3 mi · 793
- William C. McGinnis Middle School0.5 mi · 984
- Academy for Urban Leadership Charter School0.6 mi · 259
- Anthony V. Ceres Elementary School0.6 mi · 559
- Edward J. Patten Elementary School0.7 mi · 649
- Samuel E. Shull Middle School0.7 mi · 941
Frequently asked questions
About Herbert N. Richardson 21st Century SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Herbert N. Richardson 21st Century School?
Herbert N. Richardson 21st Century School enrolls approximately 632 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Herbert N. Richardson 21st Century School serve?
Herbert N. Richardson 21st Century School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Herbert N. Richardson 21st Century School?
Approximately 11.5:1 students per teacher at Herbert N. Richardson 21st Century School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Herbert N. Richardson 21st Century School?
At Herbert N. Richardson 21st Century School, the student body is approximately 0% White, 95% Hispanic, 4% Black, 0% Asian, 0% Two or more.
Is Herbert N. Richardson 21st Century School public or private?
Herbert N. Richardson 21st Century School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Perth Amboy Public School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.