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Enrollment
878
Elementary
DISTRICT 639 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ELIZABETH PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 340459002983
Juan Pablo Duarte - Jose Julian Marti School No 28
25 FIRST STREET, ELIZABETH, NJ 07206 · (908) 436-3950 · Union County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL878 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 31% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
12.0:1
73 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.5:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
90%
790 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 | 36 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 90 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 102 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 89 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 92 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 103 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 84 | 10% |
| Grade 6 | 85 | 10% |
| Grade 7 | 102 | 12% |
| Grade 8 | 95 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (90) is 5% smaller than its 8th grade class (95).
Student demographics
26%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
29.7%
NJ avg 53.1% . -1.8pp since 2023
Math
19.3%
NJ avg 41.6% . +1.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 30 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 19 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 29.7% | 19.3% |
| 2023-24 | 31.5% | 18.1% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
21.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
16.9%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 22% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 17% 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 Juan Pablo Duarte - Jose Julian Marti School No 28
Juan Pablo Duarte - Jose Julian Marti School No 28's state test result (21.8% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Juan Pablo Duarte - Jose Julian Marti School No 28 this school | 878 | 90.0% | 21.8% |
| Jerome Dunn Academy No 9 Elizabeth | 856 | 92.2% | 17.5% |
| Elliott Street Elementary School NEWARK | 880 | 87.5% | 22.0% |
| Nicholas S. Lacorte-Peterstown School No. 3 ELIZABETH | 765 | 89.7% | 21.6% |
| Charles and Anna Booker Elementary School PLAINFIELD | 816 | 85.9% | 10.7% |
| 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 Juan Pablo Duarte - Jose Julian Marti School No 28 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Union County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 21.8% | #1,101 of 1,290 | #76 of 92 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 19.3% | #1,157 of 1,319 ▼ 30 | #80 of 93 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 29.7% | #1,109 of 1,319 ▼ 69 | #76 of 93 ▼ 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 878 | #33 of 1,562 | #3 of 108 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.0:1 | #893 of 1,390 | #46 of 103 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 26.0% | #1,259 of 1,392 | #91 of 103 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 90.0% | #60 of 1,481 | #4 of 105 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.8% | #389 of 798 | #19 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
878
-57 (-6%) vs 2020
-4% since 2010-11, when it was 919
Student : Teacher
12.0:1
was 13.2:1
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 | 878 | 73 | 12.0:1 | 90% (790) |
| 2023-24 | 912 | 68 | 13.4:1 | 87% (796) |
| 2022-23 | 915 | 69.5 | 13.2:1 | 86% (784) |
| 2020-21 | 935 | 71 | 13.2:1 | 84% (781) |
| 2017-18 | 984 | 67.5 | 14.6:1 | 89% (878) |
| 2015-16 | 993 | 59 | 16.8:1 | 93% (923) |
| 2010-11 | 919 | 70 | 13.1:1 | 92% (849) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Juan Pablo Duarte - Jose Julian Marti School No 28.
Since 2017-18: students down 11% (984 to 878); teachers up 8% (67.5 to 73).
About Juan Pablo Duarte - Jose Julian Marti School No 28
Juan Pablo Duarte - Jose Julian Marti School No 28 is the name of a large elementary school in ELIZABETH, New Jersey. Classes run from pre-K through 8, and the school has 878 students. Against the 405-student average for elementary schools in New Jersey, enrollment here is 117% higher.
Federal data list 37 schools in Elizabeth Public Schools, with 27,580 students enrolled.
The student body at Juan Pablo Duarte - Jose Julian Marti School No 28 is 85% Hispanic. Other reported shares: 11% Black and 3% White. Union County's residents are about 35% Hispanic, 50 points below the school's share. The school's diversity index is 26%, meaning two students picked at random have a 26% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
The count of teachers at Juan Pablo Duarte - Jose Julian Marti School No 28 is 73 full-time equivalents, for a ratio of 12.0:1. That is close to the 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey. Around 90% of the school's students qualify for free or reduced-price meals. That is higher than the 52% average for public schools in Union County.
The allk12 Grade for Juan Pablo Duarte - Jose Julian Marti School No 28 is C. Compared with New Jersey public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 31% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 16.9% for Juan Pablo Duarte - Jose Julian Marti School No 28. The school posts 21.8%, 4.9 points above the prediction.
In Union County (population about 579,290), the median household income is $103,202, roughly 39% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 7%. There are 180 public schools in Union County, enrolling about 99,046 students in all.
The nearest other public school, George Washington Academy School No. 1, is about 0.4 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Among the 8 closest schools with test data, this one included, Juan Pablo Duarte - Jose Julian Marti School No 28 ranks 6th on average proficiency.
Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment is down 6% from 2020-21, when Juan Pablo Duarte - Jose Julian Marti School No 28 had 935 students, to 2024-25, when it had 878. Its ratio of students to teachers was 13.2:1 in 2020-21, and 12.0:1 in 2024-25.
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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
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Other schools in Elizabeth Public Schools
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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
- George Washington Academy School No. 10.4 mi · 595
- Jerome Dunn Academy No 90.4 mi · 856
- iPrep Academy School No 80.4 mi · 397
- Terence C. Reilly School No 70.7 mi · 1,130
- Benjamin Franklin School No. 130.7 mi · 392
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Early Childhood Center No 520.8 mi · 301
Frequently asked questions
About Juan Pablo Duarte - Jose Julian Marti School No 28How large is Juan Pablo Duarte - Jose Julian Marti School No 28?
Juan Pablo Duarte - Jose Julian Marti School No 28 enrolls approximately 878 students in grades PK-08.
Is Juan Pablo Duarte - Jose Julian Marti School No 28 an elementary, middle, or high school?
Juan Pablo Duarte - Jose Julian Marti School No 28 is an elementary school covering grades PK-08.
How many students per teacher at Juan Pablo Duarte - Jose Julian Marti School No 28?
Approximately 12.0:1 students per teacher at Juan Pablo Duarte - Jose Julian Marti School No 28.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Juan Pablo Duarte - Jose Julian Marti School No 28?
At Juan Pablo Duarte - Jose Julian Marti School No 28, the student body is approximately 3% White, 85% Hispanic, 11% Black, 1% Asian.
What district is Juan Pablo Duarte - Jose Julian Marti School No 28 in?
Juan Pablo Duarte - Jose Julian Marti School No 28 is part of Elizabeth Public Schools.
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