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Does Kelly Elementary School have enough mental health and stress support?
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Enrollment
451
Elementary
DISTRICT 335 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WEST ORANGE PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 341761002488
Kelly Elementary School
555 PLEASANT VALLEY WAY, W ORANGE, NJ 07052 · (973) 669-5452 · Essex County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL451 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
9.0:1
50 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.9:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
43%
194 students
DISTRICT 39% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 74 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 74 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 62 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 77 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 83 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 81 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (74) is 9% smaller than its 5th grade class (81).
Student demographics
69%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Kelly Elementary School→Edison Middle School
Based on grade levels within West Orange Public Schools. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
51.4%
NJ avg 53.1% . -6.3pp since 2023
Math
50.3%
NJ avg 41.6% . -0.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 50 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 51.4% | 50.3% |
| 2023-24 | 57.7% | 50.6% |
% 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
47.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.6%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% 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 Kelly Elementary School
Kelly Elementary School's state test result (47.8% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kelly Elementary School this school | 451 | 43.0% | 47.8% |
| Battle Hill Elementary UNION | 414 | 46.4% | 33.7% |
| Connecticut Farms Elementary UNION | 430 | 42.8% | 45.3% |
| Fairview Elementary School Bloomfield | 499 | 50.1% | 42.2% |
| Livingston Elementary UNION | 485 | 37.5% | 48.5% |
| John Greenleaf Whittier Elementary School TEANECK | 361 | 49.9% | 43.4% |
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 Kelly Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Essex County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 47.8% | #575 of 1,290 | #52 of 131 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 50.3% | #579 of 1,319 ▼ 40 | #51 of 141 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 51.4% | #672 of 1,319 ▼ 152 | #71 of 141 ▼ 13 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 451 | #540 of 1,562 | #66 of 162 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.0:1 | #133 of 1,390 | #5 of 140 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.5% | #202 of 1,392 | #10 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 43.0% | #696 of 1,481 | #86 of 142 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +0.9% | #511 of 545 | #57 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
451
-7 (-2%) vs 2020
+43% since 1990-91, when it was 316
Student : Teacher
9.0:1
was 9.0:1
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 | 451 | 50.1 | 9.0:1 | 43% (194) |
| 2023-24 | 479 | 51.9 | 9.2:1 | 44% (211) |
| 2022-23 | 459 | 51.8 | 8.9:1 | 45% (206) |
| 2020-21 | 458 | 51 | 9.0:1 | 38% (175) |
| 2017-18 | 447 | 45.7 | 9.8:1 | 41% (185) |
| 2015-16 | 420 | 43 | 9.8:1 | 43% (179) |
| 2010-11 | 437 | 36 | 12.1:1 | 34% (149) |
| 2000-01 | 351 | 28 | 12.5:1 | 24% (84) |
| 1990-91 | 316 | 20 | 15.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Kelly Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 1% (447 to 451); teachers up 10% (45.7 to 50.1).
About Kelly Elementary School
Students in W ORANGE, New Jersey, attend Kelly Elementary School, a medium-sized elementary school. A federal count lists 451 students at the school, in kindergarten through 5.
The district for Kelly Elementary School is West Orange Public Schools, with 13 schools and 6,616 students.
Kelly Elementary School's enrollment has no majority group, and Hispanic students are the largest at 42%. The school is also 34% Black, 11% multiracial, 10% White, and 3% Asian. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 25%. The chance that two students picked at random at Kelly Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 69%.
With 50.1 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, the ratio at Kelly Elementary School was 9.0:1. Among elementary schools in New Jersey, the typical ratio is 11.4:1. Kelly Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch eligibility rate is 43%. That is lower than the 54% average for public schools in Essex County.
The BeatsExpectations prediction for Kelly Elementary School is 42.6%, and its average proficiency rate on state tests is 47.8%.
In the county around the school, Essex County, median household income is about $80,789, about 39% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 11%. A total of 249 public schools operate in Essex County, serving about 145,473 students.
The shortest distance from Kelly Elementary School to another public school is about 0.1 miles, to West Orange High School. The five-mile area around Kelly Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools. The school's 47.8% average proficiency ranks 4th among 6 nearby schools.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment has been fairly stable: 458 in 2020-21 and 451 in 2024-25.
The allk12 site hosts a discussion page for Kelly Elementary School covering things like enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Essex County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
863,002
Census ACS
Median income
$80,789
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
249
145,473 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in West Orange Public Schools
- West Orange High SchoolHigh · 2,106 students
- Liberty Middle SchoolMiddle · 559 students
- Gregory Elementary SchoolElementary · 484 students
- Edison Middle SchoolMiddle · 477 students
- Roosevelt Middle SchoolMiddle · 457 students
- Redwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 446 students
Other schools in W ORANGE
- Gregory Elementary SchoolElementary · 484 students
- Edison Middle SchoolMiddle · 477 students
- Roosevelt Middle SchoolMiddle · 457 students
- Redwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 446 students
- St. Cloud Elementary SchoolElementary · 436 students
- Washington Elementary SchoolElementary · 414 students
Other Kelly Elementary schools
6 other US public schools in 6 states are named Kelly Elementary. Kelly Elementary School is the 4th largest of the 7.
- Kelly ElementaryCompton, CA · 685 students
- Kelly Elementary SchoolLewisburg, PA · 550 students
- Kelly ElementaryHolyoke, MA · 464 students
- Kelly ElementaryCarlsbad, CA · 449 students
- Kelly Elementary SchoolPortland, OR · 385 students
Nearby schools
- West Orange High School0.1 mi · 2,106
- Redwood Elementary School0.7 mi · 446
- Mount Pleasant Elementary School1.3 mi · 349
- Forest Avenue School1.5 mi · 230
- Liberty Middle School1.6 mi · 559
- Brookdale Avenue School1.8 mi · 134
Frequently asked questions
About Kelly Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Kelly Elementary School?
Kelly Elementary School enrolls approximately 451 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Kelly Elementary School serve?
Kelly Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many teachers does Kelly Elementary School have?
Kelly Elementary School employs 50 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.0:1.
What is the student diversity at Kelly Elementary School?
Student demographics at Kelly Elementary School are roughly 10% White, 42% Hispanic, 34% Black, 3% Asian, 11% Two or more.
Is Kelly Elementary School public or private?
Kelly Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by West Orange Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.