Jefferson Elementary School

Jefferson Elementary School is a reasonably sized elementary-level community in Westfield, New Jersey, operated by Westfield Public School District. The school works with 467 students in grades 1 through 5.

Jefferson Elementary School is one of 10 schools operated by Westfield Public School District, a district that works with 5,838 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Jefferson Elementary School reports that 60% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school logs 22% Asian, 10% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 39% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting Jefferson Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 1% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Union County's rate of about 52%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Jefferson Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.8%, the actual is 74.7%, a residual of +8.8 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Union County indicate 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%. In all, Union County runs 180 public schools (combined enrollment of about 99,046 students), of which Jefferson Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Tamaques Elementary School, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Jefferson Elementary School at 1st of 4; the average score across the group is 68.4%.

Jefferson Elementary School operates from an outer-ring location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Jefferson Elementary School has contracted 3%, going from 479 students in 2018 to 467 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 76% to 60% over that span.

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