Madison Monroe School No. 16

Located at 1091 NORTH AVE, in ELIZABETH, New Jersey, Madison Monroe School No. 16 is an expansive elementary campus that works with 644 students (grades pre-K through 8), run under Elizabeth Public Schools. Compared to the state average of about 405 students per school, that is 59% bigger than typical.

Across the 37 schools in Elizabeth Public Schools (27,580 students total), Madison Monroe School No. 16 accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Madison Monroe School No. 16 records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 69% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school shows 17% White, 12% Black, 2% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 35%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Madison Monroe School No. 16 has 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 79% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Union County runs at roughly 52%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Madison Monroe School No. 16 sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 23.0%; this one delivers 24.6%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Union County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $103,202 per year, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Union County's 180 public schools (combined enrollment of about 99,046 students), Madison Monroe School No. 16 is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Chessie Dentley Roberts Academy School No. 30, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Madison Monroe School No. 16 comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 27.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 9%: 704 students in 2018 compared to 644 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 in 2025.

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