Hurden Looker Elementary School

Hurden Looker Elementary School, a reasonably sized elementary-level community in HILLSIDE, New Jersey, part of Hillside Public School District, instructs 408 students, covering grades 2 through 6.

Within Hillside Public School District, which oversees 7 schools and 2,957 students, Hurden Looker Elementary School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Hurden Looker Elementary School records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 40% Black, 11% White. By comparison, Union County as a whole is about 35% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. Around 78% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Union County runs at roughly 52%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Hurden Looker Elementary 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 23.4%; Hurden Looker Elementary School posts 39.7%, +16.3 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, census data for Union County shows the typical household earns roughly $103,202 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Hurden Looker Elementary School is one of 180 public schools in Union County (combined enrollment of about 99,046 students).

Nearest neighbor: Hillside High School, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hurden Looker Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 28.0%.

Hurden Looker Elementary School operates from a residential location.

Five-year trend. Hurden Looker Elementary School's enrollment has decreased 16% since 2018, when it stood at 485 (now 408). Over the same period, the Black share contracted from 61% to 40%.

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