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What's one thing Huber Street School gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
563
Elementary
DISTRICT 519 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SECAUCUS SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341485002904
Huber Street School
1520 PATERSON PLANK RD, SECAUCUS, NJ 07094 · (201) 974-2055 · Hudson County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL563 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 31% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats 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
12.8:1
44 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.9:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
26%
149 students
DISTRICT 36% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 93 | 17% |
| Kindergarten | 77 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 76 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 76 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 78 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 90 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 73 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (77) is 5% larger than its 5th grade class (73).
Student demographics
69%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · 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
Based on grade levels within Secaucus School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
42.8%
NJ avg 53.1% . -3.6pp since 2023
Math
44.9%
NJ avg 41.6% . -2.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 45 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 42.8% | 44.9% |
| 2023-24 | 46.4% | 47.3% |
% 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
43.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
51.7%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% 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 Huber Street School
Huber Street School's state test result (43.9% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Huber Street School this school | 563 | 26.5% | 43.9% |
| Sunnymead Elementary School Hillsborough | 530 | 25.3% | 70.7% |
| James Monroe Elementary School Edison | 537 | 34.6% | 51.2% |
| Roosevelt Elementary School SOUTH PLAINFIELD | 472 | 35.6% | 48.1% |
| Anna C. Scott Elementary School Leonia | 517 | 18.2% | 64.7% |
| Hillsborough Township Elementary School Hillsborough | 467 | 21.6% | 76.4% |
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 Huber Street School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Hudson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 43.9% | #659 of 1,290 | #23 of 84 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 44.9% | #692 of 1,319 ▼ 84 | #22 of 84 ▼ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 42.8% | #876 of 1,319 ▼ 115 | #55 of 84 ▼ 15 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 563 | #287 of 1,562 | #45 of 88 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.8:1 | #1,053 of 1,390 | #60 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.8% | #195 of 1,392 | #24 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 26.5% | #914 of 1,481 | #83 of 88 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.8% | #391 of 798 | #42 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
563
-72 (-11%) vs 2020
+87% since 1990-91, when it was 301
Student : Teacher
12.8:1
was 14.8:1
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 | 563 | 44 | 12.8:1 | 26% (149) |
| 2023-24 | 604 | 45.5 | 13.3:1 | 19% (112) |
| 2022-23 | 633 | 45 | 14.1:1 | 18% (115) |
| 2020-21 | 635 | 43 | 14.8:1 | 14% (90) |
| 2017-18 | 631 | 42.5 | 14.8:1 | 21% (134) |
| 2015-16 | 655 | 41 | 16.0:1 | 30% (194) |
| 2010-11 | 581 | 28 | 20.8:1 | 28% (163) |
| 2000-01 | 388 | 28 | 13.9:1 | 21% (80) |
| 1990-91 | 301 | 27 | 11.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Huber Street School.
Since 2017-18: students down 11% (631 to 563); teachers up 4% (42.5 to 44).
About Huber Street School
Huber Street School is an elementary school with a street address in SECAUCUS, New Jersey. In all, 563 students attend the school in pre-K through 5. That is 39% bigger than the average of about 405 students for elementary schools in New Jersey.
The 4 schools of Secaucus School District, including Huber Street School, enroll 2,128 students.
Asian students account for 43% of enrollment at Huber Street School, more than any other group. Other groups include 27% Hispanic, 22% White, 5% Black, and 2% multiracial. By comparison, Hudson County residents are about 17% Asian. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 69%.
There are 44 full-time-equivalent teachers at the school, a ratio of 12.8:1. Across elementary schools in New Jersey, the average ratio is 11.4:1. Of all students at Huber Street School, 26% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is 42 points below the 68% average for public schools in Hudson County.
Huber Street School holds a C allk12 Grade, placing it above 31% of New Jersey public elementary schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Huber Street School falls in the middle 80% of New Jersey schools: 43.9% actual against 51.7% predicted.
In Hudson County, median household income comes to about $91,795, roughly 49% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 11%. The county's public schools total 130, with about 86,216 students.
Secaucus High School is about 0.5 miles from Huber Street School, the shortest distance to any other public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. By average proficiency, Huber Street School is 3rd among 9 schools close by.
Huber Street School is coded as Suburb: Large in federal locale data.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, Huber Street School had a net loss of 72 students, or 11%. The ratio was 14.8:1 in 2020-21 and 12.8:1 in 2024-25.
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Hudson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
718,323
Census ACS
Median income
$91,795
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
49%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
130
86,216 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Secaucus School District
- Secaucus High SchoolHigh · 612 students
- Secaucus Middle SchoolMiddle · 478 students
- Clarendon SchoolElementary · 475 students
Other schools in SECAUCUS
- High Tech High SchoolHigh · 790 students
- Secaucus High SchoolHigh · 612 students
- Secaucus Middle SchoolMiddle · 478 students
- Clarendon SchoolElementary · 475 students
- Academy of Career and Technical EducationHigh · 246 students
Nearby schools
- Secaucus High School0.5 mi · 612
- Secaucus Middle School0.5 mi · 478
- Clarendon School0.7 mi · 475
- Franklin Elementary School1.7 mi · 509
- McKinley Elementary School1.8 mi · 296
- Lincoln Elementary School2.0 mi · 1,193
Frequently asked questions
About Huber Street SchoolHow many students attend Huber Street School?
Huber Street School enrolls approximately 563 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Huber Street School serve?
Huber Street School serves grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Huber Street School have?
Huber Street School employs 44 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.8:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Huber Street School?
At Huber Street School, the student body is approximately 22% White, 27% Hispanic, 5% Black, 43% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees Huber Street School?
Huber Street School is overseen by Secaucus School District in Hudson County.
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