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Enrollment
757
Elementary
DISTRICT 639 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ELIZABETH PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 340459005482
Joseph Battin School No 4
501 Union Avenue, ELIZABETH, NJ 07208 · (908) 436-6300 · Union County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL757 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 43% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-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
11.2:1
68 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.5:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
85%
645 students
DISTRICT 83% · 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 | 79 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 81 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 95 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 81 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 72 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 63 | 8% |
| Grade 5 | 72 | 10% |
| Grade 6 | 71 | 9% |
| Grade 7 | 76 | 10% |
| Grade 8 | 67 | 9% |
This year's kindergarten class (81) is 21% larger than its 8th grade class (67).
Student demographics
34%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 38% · 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
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
40.8%
NJ avg 53.1% . +0.2pp since 2023
Math
28.3%
NJ avg 41.6% . +5.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 28 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 40.8% | 28.3% |
| 2023-24 | 40.6% | 22.5% |
% 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
28.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
19.5%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 29% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 20% 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 Joseph Battin School No 4
Joseph Battin School No 4's state test result (28.5% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joseph Battin School No 4 this school | 757 | 85.2% | 28.5% |
| Abraham Lincoln School No. 14 ELIZABETH | 793 | 84.5% | 25.4% |
| Chessie Dentley Roberts Academy School No. 30 ELIZABETH | 729 | 87.9% | 38.9% |
| Dr. Albert Einstein Academy School No. 29 ELIZABETH | 785 | 84.5% | 38.2% |
| Roberto Clemente Elementary School NEWARK | 742 | 86.7% | 21.2% |
| John P. Holland Charter School Woodland | 787 | 86.0% | 34.9% |
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 Joseph Battin School No 4 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Union County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 28.5% | #993 of 1,290 | #59 of 92 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 28.3% | #1,009 of 1,319 ▲ 42 | #55 of 93 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.8% | #911 of 1,319 ▼ 37 | #57 of 93 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 757 | #79 of 1,562 | #11 of 108 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.2:1 | #671 of 1,390 | #23 of 103 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 34.0% | #1,172 of 1,392 | #84 of 103 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 85.2% | #125 of 1,481 | #17 of 105 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.3% | #374 of 798 | #16 of 58 |
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
757
-70 (-8%) vs 2020
+162% since 1990-91, when it was 289
Student : Teacher
11.2:1
was 13.3:1
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 | 757 | 67.5 | 11.2:1 | 85% (645) |
| 2023-24 | 772 | 67 | 11.5:1 | 81% (626) |
| 2022-23 | 783 | 60.5 | 12.9:1 | 77% (599) |
| 2020-21 | 827 | 62 | 13.3:1 | 74% (614) |
| 2017-18 | 853 | 60.5 | 14.1:1 | 86% (737) |
| 2015-16 | 846 | 64 | 13.2:1 | 90% (758) |
| 2010-11 | 712 | 61 | 11.7:1 | 92% (654) |
| 2000-01 | 482 | 38 | 12.7:1 | 81% (392) |
| 1990-91 | 289 | 60 | 4.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Joseph Battin School No 4.
Since 2017-18: students down 11% (853 to 757); teachers up 12% (60.5 to 67.5).
About Joseph Battin School No 4
Joseph Battin School No 4 serves students in ELIZABETH, New Jersey, as a large elementary school. The school enrolls 757 students in pre-K through 8. Elementary schools in New Jersey average about 405 students, which makes this school 87% larger than average.
The Elizabeth Public Schools system has 37 schools and 27,580 students.
At Joseph Battin School No 4, 80% of students are Hispanic. It is also 11% Black and 6% White. For comparison, the population of Union County is roughly 35% Hispanic. The diversity index for Joseph Battin School No 4 is 34%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The school lists 67.5 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.2:1. The 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey is close to this figure. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 85% of the student body. Among public schools in Union County, the average eligibility rate is 52%.
Joseph Battin School No 4 earns a C+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 43% of New Jersey public elementary schools.
Compared with New Jersey schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Joseph Battin School No 4's results are 9.0 points above predicted: 28.5% against 19.5%.
Union County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $103,202, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of people live in poverty. There are 180 public schools in the county, enrolling about 99,046, Joseph Battin School No 4 among them.
The closest school to Joseph Battin School No 4 is Donald Stewart Early Childhood Center No 51, located about 0.2 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Joseph Battin School No 4. On proficiency, Joseph Battin School No 4 is behind the 30.5% nearby average, ranking 6th of 8.
NCES assigns Joseph Battin School No 4 the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has fallen 8%, from 827 to 757. The number of students per teacher dropped from 13.3 to 11.2 over 4 years.
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Union County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
579,290
Census ACS
Median income
$103,202
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
180
99,046 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Elizabeth Public Schools
- John E. Dwyer Technology AcademyHigh · 1,348 students
- Admiral William F. Halsey Jr. Health & Public Safety AcademyHigh · 1,272 students
- Elizabeth High School - Frank J Cicarell AcademyHigh · 1,268 students
- Thomas Jefferson Arts AcademyHigh · 1,144 students
- William F. Halloran School No.22Middle · 1,140 students
- Terence C. Reilly School No 7Middle · 1,130 students
Other schools in ELIZABETH
- John E. Dwyer Technology AcademyHigh · 1,348 students
- Admiral William F. Halsey Jr. Health & Public Safety AcademyHigh · 1,272 students
- Elizabeth High School - Frank J Cicarell AcademyHigh · 1,268 students
- Thomas Jefferson Arts AcademyHigh · 1,144 students
- William F. Halloran School No.22Middle · 1,140 students
- Terence C. Reilly School No 7Middle · 1,130 students
Nearby schools
- Donald Stewart Early Childhood Center No 510.2 mi · 310
- Nicholas Murray Butler Academy School No. 230.2 mi · 667
- Dr. Antonia Pantoja School No. 270.4 mi · 934
- Alexander Hamilton Preparatory Academy0.6 mi · 1,015
- Chessie Dentley Roberts Academy School No. 300.6 mi · 729
- Toussaint L'Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 60.6 mi · 1,001
Frequently asked questions
About Joseph Battin School No 4What is the total enrollment at Joseph Battin School No 4?
Joseph Battin School No 4 enrolls approximately 757 students in grades PK-08.
What grades does Joseph Battin School No 4 serve?
Joseph Battin School No 4 serves grades PK-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Joseph Battin School No 4?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Joseph Battin School No 4 is approximately 11.2:1 (68 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Joseph Battin School No 4?
Student demographics at Joseph Battin School No 4 are roughly 6% White, 80% Hispanic, 11% Black, 2% Asian.
What district is Joseph Battin School No 4 in?
Joseph Battin School No 4 is part of Elizabeth Public Schools.
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