Maria Varisco Rogers Charter School

Set in NEWARK, New Jersey, Maria Varisco Rogers Charter School is a reasonably sized elementary school, one of the schools within Maria L. Varisco-Rogers Charter School. It teaches 572 students across grades K through 8. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 405 students each, so Maria Varisco Rogers Charter School sits 41% larger than that benchmark.

Maria L. Varisco-Rogers Charter School is the operating authority for Maria Varisco Rogers Charter School, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

Demographically, Maria Varisco Rogers Charter School records that 94% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder looks like 4% Black. By comparison, Essex County as a whole is about 25% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Maria Varisco Rogers Charter School shows 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.3:1. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 88% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Essex County's rate of about 54%.

With demographic context factored in, Maria Varisco Rogers Charter School is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 17.7%; this one delivers 39.9%, a residual of +22.1 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Essex County shows the typical household earns roughly $80,789 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Essex County's 249 public schools (combined enrollment of about 145,473 students), Maria Varisco Rogers Charter School is one campus in the mix.

Newark School of Fashion & Design is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Maria Varisco Rogers Charter School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 26.7%.

Maria Varisco Rogers Charter School operates from an inner-city location. Maria Varisco Rogers Charter School operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Over the past 7-year window. Maria Varisco Rogers Charter School's enrollment has increased 4% since 2018, when it stood at 551 (now 572). The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 10.5:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 today.

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