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If you could change one rule at Lindeneau Elementary School, what would it be?
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Enrollment
446
Elementary
DISTRICT 568 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EDISON TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340450003352
Lindeneau Elementary School
50 BLOSSOM STREET, EDISON, NJ 08817 · (732) 650-5320 · Middlesex County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL446 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 38% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-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
10.9:1
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.7:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
65%
291 students
DISTRICT 30% · 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 | 61 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 63 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 80 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 74 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 84 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 84 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (61) is 27% smaller than its 5th grade class (84).
Student demographics
68%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 55% · 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
38.7%
NJ avg 53.1% . +1.6pp since 2023
Math
39.0%
NJ avg 41.6% . +5.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 39 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 38.7% | 39.0% |
| 2023-24 | 37.1% | 33.9% |
% 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
33.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
30.4%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 33% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 30% 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 Lindeneau Elementary School
Lindeneau Elementary School's state test result (33.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lindeneau Elementary School this school | 446 | 65.2% | 33.5% |
| School 28 PATERSON | 463 | 73.2% | 89.9% |
| Port Reading Avenue Elementary School PORT READING | 385 | 56.6% | 35.7% |
| Livingston Park NORTH BRUNSWICK | 494 | 54.5% | 36.8% |
| Alfred Zampella School JERSEY CITY | 629 | 67.4% | 40.6% |
| Hillcrest School Somerset | 439 | 60.6% | 27.2% |
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 Lindeneau Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Middlesex County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 33.5% | #896 of 1,290 | #85 of 111 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 39.0% | #820 of 1,319 ▲ 27 | #80 of 111 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 38.7% | #958 of 1,319 ▼ 15 | #84 of 111 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 446 | #551 of 1,562 | #59 of 130 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.9:1 | #599 of 1,390 | #50 of 120 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.1% | #215 of 1,392 | #48 of 121 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 65.2% | #404 of 1,481 | #25 of 128 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.7% | #550 of 798 | #71 of 84 |
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
446
+15 (+3%) vs 2020
+5% since 1990-91, when it was 425
Student : Teacher
10.9:1
was 11.3:1
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 | 446 | 40.8 | 10.9:1 | 65% (291) |
| 2023-24 | 490 | 46.3 | 10.6:1 | 61% (300) |
| 2022-23 | 495 | 37.8 | 13.1:1 | 50% (249) |
| 2020-21 | 431 | 38 | 11.3:1 | 29% (125) |
| 2017-18 | 478 | 35.7 | 13.4:1 | 50% (239) |
| 2015-16 | 442 | 37 | 11.9:1 | 48% (210) |
| 2010-11 | 472 | 28 | 16.9:1 | 35% (166) |
| 2000-01 | 393 | 20 | 19.6:1 | 13% (51) |
| 1990-91 | 425 | 22 | 19.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lindeneau Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 7% (478 to 446); teachers up 14% (35.7 to 40.8).
About Lindeneau Elementary School
Lindeneau Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school in EDISON, New Jersey, under Edison Township School District. Students in kindergarten through 5 attend, and enrollment is 446 students.
Besides Lindeneau Elementary School, Edison Township School District runs 18 other schools. The district enrolls 16,617 students.
No single group makes up more than half of enrollment at Lindeneau Elementary School. The largest is Hispanic students, at 49%. Smaller groups are 21% Asian, 13% White, 10% Black, and 6% multiracial. For comparison, the population of Middlesex County is roughly 24% Hispanic. Lindeneau Elementary School's diversity index is 68%, against a US figure of 70%.
The school reported 40.8 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25 and a ratio of 10.9:1. That is close to the 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 65%. That is 23 points above the 42% average for public schools in Middlesex County.
The allk12 Grade for Lindeneau Elementary School is C+. Compared with New Jersey public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 38% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Lindeneau Elementary School is 3.0 points above its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests (33.5% versus 30.4%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in New Jersey.
In the county around the school, Middlesex County, the median household income is $111,549, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 46% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 6%. Middlesex County is home to 214 public schools and about 129,255 public school students.
The closest public school, Irving Primary School, is about 0.5 miles from Lindeneau Elementary School. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Of the 8 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Lindeneau Elementary School is 8th on average proficiency.
By NCES locale, the school is Suburb: Large, or in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Compared with 2020-21, the school had 15 more students in 2024-25.
Threads on this page can be about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Middlesex County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
871,290
Census ACS
Median income
$111,549
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
46%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
214
129,255 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Edison Township School District
- John P. Stevens High SchoolHigh · 2,687 students
- Edison High SchoolHigh · 2,393 students
- Woodrow Wilson Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,206 students
- Herbert Hoover Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,060 students
- Thomas Jefferson Middle SchoolMiddle · 954 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolElementary · 946 students
Other schools in EDISON
- John P. Stevens High SchoolHigh · 2,687 students
- Edison High SchoolHigh · 2,393 students
- Woodrow Wilson Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,206 students
- Herbert Hoover Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,060 students
- Thomas Jefferson Middle SchoolMiddle · 954 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolElementary · 946 students
Nearby schools
- Irving Primary School0.5 mi · 326
- John Marshall Elementary School0.7 mi · 762
- Thomas Jefferson Middle School0.8 mi · 954
- Highland Park Middle School0.9 mi · 349
- Highland Park High School0.9 mi · 493
- Bartle Elementary School1.0 mi · 405
Frequently asked questions
About Lindeneau Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Lindeneau Elementary School?
Lindeneau Elementary School enrolls approximately 446 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Lindeneau Elementary School serve?
Lindeneau Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Lindeneau Elementary School?
Approximately 10.9:1 students per teacher at Lindeneau Elementary School.
How diverse is Lindeneau Elementary School?
Lindeneau Elementary School reports a student body of 13% White, 49% Hispanic, 10% Black, 21% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is Lindeneau Elementary School public or private?
Lindeneau Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Edison Township School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.