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Enrollment
617
Elementary
DISTRICT 601 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·JERSEY CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 340783002848
Jotham W. Wakeman School
100 ST PAULS AVE, JERSEY CITY, NJ 07306 · (201) 714-4310 · Hudson County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL617 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 90% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- A-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
11.0:1
56 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.3:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
45%
279 students
DISTRICT 69% · 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 | 101 | 16% |
| Kindergarten | 106 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 85 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 98 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 66 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 79 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 82 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (106) is 29% larger than its 5th grade class (82).
Student demographics
67%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 74% · 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
74.4%
NJ avg 53.1% . +4.7pp since 2023
Math
72.1%
NJ avg 41.6% . +6.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 74 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 72 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 74.4% | 72.1% |
| 2023-24 | 69.7% | 66.1% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NJ schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
65.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.4%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+23.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 65% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 41% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 24 points, placing it in New Jersey's top 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 Jotham W. Wakeman School
Jotham W. Wakeman School's state test result (65.0% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jotham W. Wakeman School this school | 617 | 45.2% | 65.0% |
| Washington Elementary School EDISON | 630 | 41.1% | 48.7% |
| Benjamin Franklin Elementary School EDISON | 619 | 48.1% | 40.8% |
| Piscataway Township Schools Children's Corner Piscataway | 616 | 36.2% | N/A |
| Randolphville Elementary School PISCATAWAY | 465 | 43.7% | 61.5% |
| Roosevelt Elementary School SOUTH PLAINFIELD | 472 | 35.6% | 48.1% |
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 Jotham W. Wakeman School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Hudson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 65.0% | #240 of 1,290 | #7 of 84 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 72.1% | #212 of 1,319 ▲ 57 | #7 of 84 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 74.4% | #175 of 1,319 ▲ 80 | #9 of 84 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 617 | #205 of 1,562 | #37 of 88 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.0:1 | #621 of 1,390 | #37 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 66.9% | #257 of 1,392 | #26 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 45.2% | #656 of 1,481 | #77 of 88 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.1% | #204 of 798 | #22 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
617
-35 (-5%) vs 2020
-20% since 1990-91, when it was 771
Student : Teacher
11.0:1
was 10.7:1
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 | 617 | 55.9 | 11.0:1 | 45% (279) |
| 2023-24 | 579 | 57 | 10.2:1 | 44% (255) |
| 2022-23 | 598 | 55.5 | 10.8:1 | 47% (279) |
| 2020-21 | 652 | 61 | 10.7:1 | 49% (317) |
| 2017-18 | 753 | 61 | 12.3:1 | 55% (417) |
| 2015-16 | 846 | 63 | 13.4:1 | 71% (599) |
| 2010-11 | 872 | 66 | 13.2:1 | 79% (686) |
| 2000-01 | 1,097 | 67 | 16.4:1 | 64% (699) |
| 1990-91 | 771 | 49 | 15.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Jotham W. Wakeman School.
Since 2017-18: students down 18% (753 to 617); teachers down 8% (61 to 55.9).
About Jotham W. Wakeman School
Jotham W. Wakeman School is a large elementary school found in JERSEY CITY, New Jersey. The school has 617 students in 2024-25 across pre-K through 5. Elementary schools in New Jersey have about 405 students on average; enrollment here is 52% higher.
Jotham W. Wakeman School is in Jersey City Public Schools, a district with 24,151 students across 39 schools.
Asian students account for 46% of enrollment at Jotham W. Wakeman School, more than any other group. Other groups include 31% Hispanic, 10% Black, 9% White, and 3% multiracial. By comparison, Hudson County residents are about 17% Asian. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 67%.
Teacher count: 55.9 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 11.0:1. The ratio is within a point of the 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey. Roughly 45% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That is 23 points below the 68% average for public schools in Hudson County.
Among New Jersey public elementary schools, Jotham W. Wakeman School outscored 90%, which works out to an A on the allk12 Grade.
In New Jersey, Jotham W. Wakeman School is one of the top 10% of schools on BeatsExpectations, with an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 65.0% compared with a predicted 41.4%.
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.
Jotham W. Wakeman School's closest public school neighbor is Patricia M. Noonan School PS #26, about 0.2 miles away. Within five miles of Jotham W. Wakeman School, there are at least 8 other public schools. On proficiency, Jotham W. Wakeman School is ahead of the 32.2% nearby average, ranking 1st of 9.
Its NCES locale code is City: Large: the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, Jotham W. Wakeman School had a net loss of 35 students, or 5%.
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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 Jersey City Public Schools
- William L Dickinson High SchoolHigh · 1,786 students
- James J Ferris High SchoolHigh · 1,364 students
- Cornelia F. Bradford SchoolElementary · 1,082 students
- Joseph H. Brensinger SchoolElementary · 926 students
- Christa McAuliffe SchoolElementary · 906 students
- Franklin L. Williams SchoolMiddle · 906 students
Other schools in JERSEY CITY
- William L Dickinson High SchoolHigh · 1,786 students
- BelovED Community Charter SchoolCombined · 1,573 students
- James J Ferris High SchoolHigh · 1,364 students
- Empowerment Academy Charter SchoolCombined · 1,272 students
- Cornelia F. Bradford SchoolElementary · 1,082 students
- Joseph H. Brensinger SchoolElementary · 926 students
Nearby schools
- Patricia M. Noonan School PS #260.2 mi · 539
- Franklin L. Williams School0.4 mi · 906
- Jersey City Golden Door Charter School0.4 mi · 662
- William L Dickinson High School0.4 mi · 1,786
- Charles E. Trefurt School0.6 mi · 668
- Kindle Education Public Charter School0.6 mi · 87
Frequently asked questions
About Jotham W. Wakeman SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Jotham W. Wakeman School?
Jotham W. Wakeman School enrolls approximately 617 students in grades PK-05.
Is Jotham W. Wakeman School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Jotham W. Wakeman School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Jotham W. Wakeman School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Jotham W. Wakeman School is approximately 11.0:1 (56 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Jotham W. Wakeman School?
Student demographics at Jotham W. Wakeman School are roughly 9% White, 31% Hispanic, 10% Black, 46% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is Jotham W. Wakeman School public or private?
Jotham W. Wakeman School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Jersey City Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.