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Enrollment
572
Elementary
STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MARIA L. VARISCO-ROGERS CHARTER SCHOOL·NCES 340002600292
Maria Varisco Rogers Charter School
233 Woodside Ave, NEWARK, NJ 07104 · (973) 481-9001 · Essex County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL572 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 68% 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.
- A+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
14.3:1
40 FTE teachers
STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
88%
506 students
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 | 63 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 62 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 65 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 64 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 63 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 63 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 62 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 65 | 11% |
| Grade 8 | 65 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (63) is about the same size as its 8th grade class (65).
Student demographics
11%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
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
70.0%
NJ avg 53.1% . +7.2pp since 2023
Math
27.9%
NJ avg 41.6% . +0.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 28 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 70.0% | 27.9% |
| 2023-24 | 62.8% | 27.0% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NJ schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
39.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
17.7%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+22.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 18% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 22 points, placing it in New Jersey's top 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 Maria Varisco Rogers Charter School
Maria Varisco Rogers Charter School's state test result (39.9% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maria Varisco Rogers Charter School this school | 572 | 88.5% | 39.9% |
| Harry L Bain WEST NEW YORK | 599 | 86.0% | 33.6% |
| Sonia Sotomayor School No 25 ELIZABETH | 591 | 90.5% | 22.2% |
| Albio Sires Elementary School WEST NEW YORK | 518 | 88.2% | 34.1% |
| Washington Community School PLAINFIELD | 557 | 87.6% | 14.4% |
| A Chester Redshaw School NEW BRUNSWICK | 678 | 88.6% | 21.0% |
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 Maria Varisco Rogers Charter School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Essex County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 39.9% | #751 of 1,290 | #59 of 131 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 27.9% | #1,014 of 1,319 ▼ 27 | #80 of 141 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 70.0% | #268 of 1,319 ▲ 124 | #36 of 141 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 572 | #271 of 1,562 | #37 of 162 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.3:1 | #1,269 of 1,390 | #99 of 140 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 11.0% | #1,364 of 1,392 | #140 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 88.5% | #73 of 1,481 | #11 of 142 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +3.8% | #415 of 545 | #41 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
572
-2 (0%) vs 2020
+1092% since 2000-01, when it was 48
Student : Teacher
14.3:1
was 13.1:1
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 | 572 | 40 | 14.3:1 | 88% (506) |
| 2023-24 | 580 | 41.6 | 14.0:1 | 82% (476) |
| 2022-23 | 569 | 46.6 | 12.2:1 | 80% (455) |
| 2020-21 | 574 | 44 | 13.1:1 | 84% (485) |
| 2017-18 | 551 | 52.5 | 10.5:1 | 86% (472) |
| 2015-16 | 502 | 55 | 9.1:1 | 94% (471) |
| 2010-11 | 380 | 32 | 11.9:1 | 93% (352) |
| 2000-01 | 48 | 1 | 48.0:1 | 83% (40) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Maria Varisco Rogers Charter School.
Since 2017-18: students up 4% (551 to 572); teachers down 24% (52.5 to 40).
About Maria Varisco Rogers Charter School
Maria Varisco Rogers Charter School is a public elementary school in NEWARK, New Jersey. The school has 572 students in 2024-25 across kindergarten through 8. That compares with an average of about 405 students for elementary schools in New Jersey.
Maria Varisco Rogers Charter School is part of Maria L. Varisco-Rogers Charter School.
A large majority of enrollment at Maria Varisco Rogers Charter School is Hispanic, at 94%. It is also 4% Black. Essex County's residents are about 25% Hispanic, 69 points below the school's share. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 11%.
Maria Varisco Rogers Charter School has a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.3:1, with 40 full-time-equivalent teachers. Statewide, elementary schools in New Jersey average 11.4:1. The school has 88% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. On average, public schools in Essex County report 54%.
Among New Jersey public elementary schools, Maria Varisco Rogers Charter School outscored 68%, which works out to a B+ on the allk12 Grade.
Maria Varisco Rogers Charter School ranks in the top 10% of New Jersey schools after adjusting test results for student poverty. Actual: 39.9%. Predicted: 17.7%. Difference: 22.1 points.
The county, Essex County, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $80,789, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 39% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 11%. The county has 249 public schools and about 145,473 students.
Newark School of Fashion & Design is less than a tenth of a mile from Maria Varisco Rogers Charter School, the shortest distance to any other public school. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Nearby schools with test data average 26.7% proficiency; Maria Varisco Rogers Charter School posts 39.9%.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Large: inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more. Maria Varisco Rogers Charter School operates as a charter school, which is publicly funded and run under a charter.
Compared with 2020-21, when it had 574 students, enrollment in 2024-25 was about the same at 572. Students per teacher increased from 13.1 in 2020-21 to 14.3 in 2024-25.
On allk12, people connected to Maria Varisco Rogers Charter School can post about athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Essex County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
863,002
Census ACS
Median income
$80,789
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
249
145,473 students
Quick facts
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- TEAM Academy Charter SchoolCombined · 6,406 students
- Great Oaks Legacy Charter SchoolCombined · 2,169 students
- East Side High SchoolHigh · 2,046 students
- Barringer High SchoolHigh · 1,894 students
- Marion P. Thomas Charter SchoolCombined · 1,410 students
Nearby schools
- Newark School of Fashion & Design0.0 mi · 275
- Elliott Street Elementary School0.2 mi · 880
- LUIS MUNOZ MARIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.2 mi · 818
- Ridge Street School0.3 mi · 593
- Robert Treat Academy Charter School0.7 mi · 702
- Park Elementary School0.7 mi · 747
Frequently asked questions
About Maria Varisco Rogers Charter SchoolHow large is Maria Varisco Rogers Charter School?
Maria Varisco Rogers Charter School enrolls approximately 572 students in grades KG-08.
Is Maria Varisco Rogers Charter School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Maria Varisco Rogers Charter School is an elementary school covering grades KG-08.
How many teachers does Maria Varisco Rogers Charter School have?
Maria Varisco Rogers Charter School employs 40 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.3:1.
What is the student diversity at Maria Varisco Rogers Charter School?
Student demographics at Maria Varisco Rogers Charter School are roughly 1% White, 94% Hispanic, 4% Black, 1% Asian.
What district is Maria Varisco Rogers Charter School in?
Maria Varisco Rogers Charter School is part of Maria L. Varisco-Rogers Charter School.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.