Lafayette Street School

Lafayette Street School, an expansive elementary school in NEWARK, New Jersey, one of the schools within Newark Public School District, enrolls 1,213 students, covering grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 200% bigger than the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 405 students.

Newark Public School District comprises 65 schools with combined enrollment of 41,502 students; Lafayette Street School is among them.

On demographics, Lafayette Street School logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 79% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 20% White. The wider county runs roughly 25% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Lafayette Street School shows 75 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.2:1. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 87% of students at Lafayette Street School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Essex County (around 54%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Lafayette Street School ranks in the top 10% of New Jersey public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 18.4%; Lafayette Street School posts 34.0%, +15.6 points above that line.

Around the school, Essex County reports that the typical household earns roughly $80,789 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Essex County runs 249 public schools (combined enrollment of about 145,473 students), of which Lafayette Street School is one.

The closest other public school is The Gray Charter School, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lafayette Street School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Lafayette Street School at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 31.9%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Five-year trend. Lafayette Street School's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 1,187 (now 1,213).

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