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Hoboken Dual Language Charter School
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 93 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 84 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 82% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 61% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 20 points, placing it in New Jersey's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Hoboken Dual Language Charter School
As a mid-sized primary school in HOBOKEN, New Jersey, Hoboken Dual Language Charter School enrolls 441 students from grades K through 8, operated by Hoboken Dual Language Charter School.
Hoboken Dual Language Charter School sits inside Hoboken Dual Language Charter School, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.
Demographically, Hoboken Dual Language Charter School logs that 51% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school reports 28% Hispanic, 17% Asian. By comparison, Hudson County as a whole is about 32% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Hoboken Dual Language Charter School records 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 22.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting Hoboken Dual Language Charter School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 9% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Hudson County runs at roughly 68%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, Hoboken Dual Language Charter School ranks in the top 10% of New Jersey public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 61.3%; Hoboken Dual Language Charter School posts 81.7%, +20.4 points above that line.
In the area at large, Hudson County reports that median household income runs about $91,795, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Hudson County's 130 public schools (combined enrollment of about 86,216 students), Hoboken Dual Language Charter School is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Thomas G. Connors Elementary School, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hoboken Dual Language Charter School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 56.1%.
Hoboken Dual Language Charter School operates from a commuter-belt location. As a public charter, Hoboken Dual Language Charter School runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 13%: 389 students in 2018 compared to 441 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 5% to 17% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 22.1:1 today.
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- Hoboken High SchoolHigh · 652 students
- Wallace Elementary SchoolElementary · 649 students
- Joseph F Brandt Elementary SchoolElementary · 632 students
- Hoboken Middle SchoolMiddle · 438 students
- Thomas G. Connors Elementary SchoolElementary · 353 students
- Hoboken Charter SchoolCombined · 299 students
- Thomas G. Connors Elementary School0.1 mi · 353
- Hoboken Middle School0.4 mi · 438
- Charles E. Trefurt School0.6 mi · 668
- Hoboken High School0.6 mi · 652
- Hoboken Charter School0.7 mi · 299
- Joseph F Brandt Elementary School0.7 mi · 632