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Enrollment
821
Elementary
DISTRICT 601 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·JERSEY CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 340783002806
Mahatma K. Gandhi School
143 ROMAINE AVE, JERSEY CITY, NJ 07306 · (201) 915-6490 · Hudson County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL821 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 36% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- C-Test 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
10.1:1
82 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.3:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
78%
644 students
DISTRICT 69% · 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 | 172 | 21% |
| Kindergarten | 83 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 77 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 66 | 8% |
| Grade 3 | 69 | 8% |
| Grade 4 | 54 | 7% |
| Grade 5 | 81 | 10% |
| Grade 6 | 82 | 10% |
| Grade 7 | 58 | 7% |
| Grade 8 | 79 | 10% |
This year's kindergarten class (83) is 5% larger than its 8th grade class (79).
Student demographics
75%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 74% · 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
36.0%
NJ avg 53.1% . +0.1pp since 2023
Math
27.4%
NJ avg 41.6% . +1.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 36 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 27 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 36.0% | 27.4% |
| 2023-24 | 35.9% | 26.1% |
% 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
28.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
23.2%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 28% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 23% 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 Mahatma K. Gandhi School
Mahatma K. Gandhi School's state test result (28.2% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mahatma K. Gandhi School this school | 821 | 78.4% | 28.2% |
| Martin Luther King Jr. School JERSEY CITY | 752 | 77.1% | 33.9% |
| James F. Murray School JERSEY CITY | 642 | 77.4% | 33.7% |
| Private Nicholas Minue Elementary School CARTERET | 529 | 71.5% | 42.0% |
| Jersey City Golden Door Charter School JERSEY CITY | 662 | 59.8% | 45.8% |
| Woodrow Wilson Community School BAYONNE | 740 | 67.4% | 36.2% |
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 Mahatma K. Gandhi School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Hudson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 28.2% | #1,002 of 1,290 | #70 of 84 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 27.4% | #1,023 of 1,319 ▼ 24 | #63 of 84 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 36.0% | #1,014 of 1,319 ▼ 47 | #68 of 84 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 821 | #47 of 1,562 | #14 of 88 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.1:1 | #355 of 1,390 | #15 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 74.7% | #24 of 1,392 | #8 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 78.4% | #234 of 1,481 | #28 of 88 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -45.3% | #12 of 798 | #2 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
821
-355 (-30%) vs 2020
-23% since 1990-91, when it was 1,060
Student : Teacher
10.1:1
was 9.8:1
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 | 821 | 81.5 | 10.1:1 | 78% (644) |
| 2023-24 | 895 | 85.2 | 10.5:1 | 60% (539) |
| 2022-23 | 1,001 | 75.5 | 13.3:1 | 54% (543) |
| 2020-21 | 1,176 | 120 | 9.8:1 | 58% (678) |
| 2017-18 | 1,502 | 128 | 11.7:1 | 68% (1,022) |
| 2015-16 | 1,445 | 125 | 11.6:1 | 74% (1,076) |
| 2010-11 | 1,534 | 116 | 13.2:1 | 81% (1,241) |
| 2000-01 | 1,420 | 80 | 17.8:1 | 83% (1,172) |
| 1990-91 | 1,060 | 63 | 16.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Mahatma K. Gandhi School.
Since 2017-18: students down 45% (1,502 to 821); teachers down 36% (128 to 81.5).
About Mahatma K. Gandhi School
Mahatma K. Gandhi School is a public elementary school run by Jersey City Public Schools in JERSEY CITY, New Jersey. It enrolls 821 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are pre-K through 8. The school is 103% above the average for elementary schools in New Jersey.
Mahatma K. Gandhi School is part of a district of 39 schools: Jersey City Public Schools, with 24,151 students.
At Mahatma K. Gandhi School, Asian students make up the biggest share, 30%. Enrollment also includes 30% White, 19% Hispanic, and 18% Black. Among people living in Hudson County, the Asian share is about 17%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 75%.
With 81.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 10.1:1. Elementary schools in New Jersey have an average ratio of 11.4:1. Student poverty is often measured by lunch eligibility; at Mahatma K. Gandhi School, 78% qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Hudson County average 68%.
On the allk12 Grade, Mahatma K. Gandhi School lands at C+, ahead of 36% of New Jersey public elementary schools.
The school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 28.2%. For its free or reduced-price lunch share, the predicted value is 23.2%.
Looking at the county, Hudson County, the median household earns about $91,795 a year, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Mahatma K. Gandhi School, Hudson County has 130 public schools.
Of the public schools around it, Mahatma K. Gandhi School is closest to The Ethical Community Charter School, about 0.2 miles away. Mahatma K. Gandhi School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Mahatma K. Gandhi School's average proficiency of 28.2% compares with 41.8% for its nearest scored neighbors.
NCES describes the area around Mahatma K. Gandhi School as City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2020-21, Mahatma K. Gandhi School enrolled 1,176 students. By 2024-25, that number had fallen to 821.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about fundraisers, report cards, and school supplies at Mahatma K. Gandhi School. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Hudson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
718,323
Census ACS
Median income
$91,795
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
49%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
130
86,216 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Jersey City Public Schools
- William L Dickinson High SchoolHigh · 1,786 students
- James J Ferris High SchoolHigh · 1,364 students
- Cornelia F. Bradford SchoolElementary · 1,082 students
- Joseph H. Brensinger SchoolElementary · 926 students
- Christa McAuliffe SchoolElementary · 906 students
- Franklin L. Williams SchoolMiddle · 906 students
Other schools in JERSEY CITY
- William L Dickinson High SchoolHigh · 1,786 students
- BelovED Community Charter SchoolCombined · 1,573 students
- James J Ferris High SchoolHigh · 1,364 students
- Empowerment Academy Charter SchoolCombined · 1,272 students
- Cornelia F. Bradford SchoolElementary · 1,082 students
- Joseph H. Brensinger SchoolElementary · 926 students
Nearby schools
- The Ethical Community Charter School0.2 mi · 357
- Liberty High School0.3 mi · 193
- Kindle Education Public Charter School0.3 mi · 87
- Jersey City Golden Door Charter School0.4 mi · 662
- Martin Luther King Jr. School0.4 mi · 752
- Franklin L. Williams School0.6 mi · 906
Frequently asked questions
About Mahatma K. Gandhi SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Mahatma K. Gandhi School?
Mahatma K. Gandhi School enrolls approximately 821 students in grades PK-08.
Is Mahatma K. Gandhi School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Mahatma K. Gandhi School is an elementary school covering grades PK-08.
How many teachers does Mahatma K. Gandhi School have?
Mahatma K. Gandhi School employs 82 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.1:1.
How diverse is Mahatma K. Gandhi School?
Mahatma K. Gandhi School reports a student body of 30% White, 19% Hispanic, 18% Black, 30% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees Mahatma K. Gandhi School?
Mahatma K. Gandhi School is overseen by Jersey City Public Schools in Hudson County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.