Jersey City Golden Door Charter School

Jersey City Golden Door Charter School operates as a well-populated elementary school in JERSEY CITY, New Jersey, one of the schools within Jersey City Golden Door Charter School. Current enrollment sits at 662 students spanning grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 63% bigger than the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 405 students.

Jersey City Golden Door Charter School is a school of Jersey City Golden Door Charter School, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

On the student-mix side, Jersey City Golden Door Charter School shows that 39% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder looks like 29% Hispanic, 19% Black, 11% White. That is meaningfully more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 17%.

Looking at school resources, Jersey City Golden Door Charter School records 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.4:1. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 60% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Jersey City Golden Door Charter School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.4%, the actual is 45.8%, a residual of +12.3 points.

In the area at large, Hudson County reports that the typical household earns roughly $91,795 per year, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Hudson County's 130 public schools (combined enrollment of about 86,216 students), Jersey City Golden Door Charter School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Franklin L. Williams School, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Jersey City Golden Door Charter School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 39.6%.

The school occupies a high-density site. As a public charter, Jersey City Golden Door Charter School runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Jersey City Golden Door Charter School has ticked up 16%, going from 569 students in 2018 to 662 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 24% to 19% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 in 2025.

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