Mahatma K. Gandhi School

Mahatma K. Gandhi School is a K-5 school of roomy scale in JERSEY CITY, New Jersey, one of the schools within Jersey City Public Schools, serveing 821 students in grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 405 students each, so Mahatma K. Gandhi School sits 103% larger than that benchmark.

Mahatma K. Gandhi School is one of 39 schools operated by Jersey City Public Schools, a district that teaches 24,151 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Mahatma K. Gandhi School lists that the most-represented group is Asian (30%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school records 30% White, 19% Hispanic, 18% Black. That is considerably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 17%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Mahatma K. Gandhi School has 82 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. About 78% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Hudson County (around 68%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Mahatma K. Gandhi School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.2%, the actual is 28.2%, a residual of +5.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Hudson County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $91,795 per year, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Hudson County runs 130 public schools (combined enrollment of about 86,216 students), of which Mahatma K. Gandhi School is one.

The Ethical Community Charter School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Mahatma K. Gandhi School at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 41.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Over the past 7-year window. Mahatma K. Gandhi School's enrollment has edged down 45% since 2018, when it stood at 1,502 (now 821). The Asian share of enrollment edged down from 35% to 30% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 11.7:1 in 2018 to 10.1:1 today.

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