Enrollment
245
Elementary
DISTRICT 329 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EAST ORANGE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340423002052
Mildred Barry Garvin Elementary
1 GROVE PLACE, EAST ORANGE, NJ 07017 · (973) 673-5410 · Essex County
GRADES 03–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL245 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 5% 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.
- FBeats 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
12.3:1
20 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
13%
31 students
DISTRICT 19% · STATE 41%
Community
0
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 | 43 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 80 | 33% |
| Grade 4 | 68 | 28% |
| Grade 5 | 54 | 22% |
Student demographics
41%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 37% · 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
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within East Orange School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
35.2%
NJ avg 53.1% . +9.6pp since 2023
Math
26.6%
NJ avg 41.6% . +14.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 35 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 are up about 10 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 14 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 35.2% | 26.6% |
| 2023-24 | 25.6% | 12.4% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NJ schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
22.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.2%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-36.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 22% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 59% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Mildred Barry Garvin Elementary
Mildred Barry Garvin Elementary's state test result (22.3% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mildred Barry Garvin Elementary this school | 245 | 12.7% | 22.3% |
| Ecole Toussaint Louverture EAST ORANGE | 269 | 21.9% | 21.9% |
| Gordon Parks Academy EAST ORANGE | 268 | 23.5% | N/A |
| Whitney E. Houston Academy EAST ORANGE | 385 | 14.0% | 27.1% |
| Shelia Y. Oliver Academy EAST ORANGE | 413 | 14.8% | 31.9% |
| Althea Gibson Academy EAST ORANGE | 144 | 3.5% | N/A |
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 Mildred Barry Garvin Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Essex County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 22.3% | #1,093 of 1,290 | #87 of 131 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 26.6% | #1,039 of 1,319 ▲ 180 | #83 of 141 ▲ 36 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 35.2% | #1,023 of 1,319 ▲ 116 | #96 of 141 ▲ 16 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 245 | #1,307 of 1,562 | #138 of 162 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.3:1 | #941 of 1,390 | #51 of 140 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 41.4% | #1,015 of 1,392 | #82 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 12.7% | #1,188 of 1,481 | #111 of 142 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -34.5% | #33 of 798 | #4 of 73 |
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
245
-42 (-15%) vs 2020
-43% since 1990-91, when it was 430
Student : Teacher
12.3:1
was 11.5:1
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 | 245 | 20 | 12.3:1 | 13% (31) |
| 2023-24 | 236 | 19 | 12.4:1 | 63% (148) |
| 2022-23 | 262 | 21 | 12.5:1 | 61% (159) |
| 2020-21 | 287 | 25 | 11.5:1 | 78% (225) |
| 2017-18 | 374 | 28.6 | 13.1:1 | 75% (281) |
| 2015-16 | 366 | 31 | 11.8:1 | 79% (290) |
| 2010-11 | 360 | 33 | 10.9:1 | 90% (323) |
| 2000-01 | 391 | 24 | 16.3:1 | 92% (360) |
| 1990-91 | 430 | 29 | 14.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Mildred Barry Garvin Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 34% (374 to 245); teachers down 30% (28.6 to 20).
About Mildred Barry Garvin Elementary
EAST ORANGE, New Jersey, is home to Mildred Barry Garvin Elementary, a small elementary school. The school enrolls 245 students, from grades 3 through 5. Average enrollment for elementary schools in New Jersey is about 405, so this school runs 40% smaller than that.
The district, East Orange School District, operates 19 schools serving 8,348 students.
By race and ethnicity, Mildred Barry Garvin Elementary is 73% Black. It is also 24% Hispanic. For comparison, the population of Essex County is roughly 36% Black. Mildred Barry Garvin Elementary has a diversity index of 41%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Federal data list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers at Mildred Barry Garvin Elementary in 2024-25, for a ratio of 12.3:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in New Jersey is 11.4:1, lower than at this school. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 13%. On average, public schools in Essex County report 54%.
The allk12 Grade for Mildred Barry Garvin Elementary is D. Compared with New Jersey public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 5% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Mildred Barry Garvin Elementary posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 22.3%. Schools with its free or reduced-price lunch share in New Jersey are predicted to post 59.2%, so the school is 36.9 points behind and in the state's bottom 10%.
Within Essex County, median household income is about $80,789, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 39%, and roughly 11% of residents are in poverty. The public schools of Essex County number 249 and enroll about 145,473.
The nearest public school is Gordon Parks Academy, at less than a tenth of a mile. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Of the 6 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Mildred Barry Garvin Elementary is 5th on average proficiency.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Large, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
A comparison of 2020-21 and 2024-25 shows enrollment down 15%, from 287 to 245.
Questions about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week can be posted here. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
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
Related schools
Other schools in East Orange School District
- East Orange Campus High SchoolHigh · 1,798 students
- Cicely L. Tyson Community Middle/High SchoolHigh · 701 students
- East Orange STEM Academy High SchoolHigh · 646 students
- Edward T. Bowser Sr. School of ExcellenceElementary · 612 students
- Langston Hughes Elementary SchoolElementary · 554 students
- Cicely L. Tyson Community Elementary SchoolElementary · 481 students
Other schools in EAST ORANGE
- East Orange Campus High SchoolHigh · 1,798 students
- Cicely L. Tyson Community Middle/High SchoolHigh · 701 students
- East Orange STEM Academy High SchoolHigh · 646 students
- Edward T. Bowser Sr. School of ExcellenceElementary · 612 students
- Langston Hughes Elementary SchoolElementary · 554 students
- Cicely L. Tyson Community Elementary SchoolElementary · 481 students
Nearby schools
- Gordon Parks Academy0.1 mi · 268
- Roseville Community Charter School0.5 mi · 285
- Cicely L. Tyson Community Elementary School0.5 mi · 481
- Dionne Warwick Institute0.6 mi · 379
- Cicely L. Tyson Community Middle/High School0.6 mi · 701
- Essex County Donald M. Payne Sr. School of Technology0.6 mi · 1,230
Frequently asked questions
About Mildred Barry Garvin ElementaryHow many students attend Mildred Barry Garvin Elementary?
Mildred Barry Garvin Elementary enrolls approximately 245 students in grades 03-05.
What age range does Mildred Barry Garvin Elementary serve?
Mildred Barry Garvin Elementary serves students from grade 03 through grade 05.
How many teachers does Mildred Barry Garvin Elementary have?
Mildred Barry Garvin Elementary employs 20 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.3:1.
How diverse is Mildred Barry Garvin Elementary?
Mildred Barry Garvin Elementary reports a student body of 0% White, 24% Hispanic, 73% Black, 0% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Mildred Barry Garvin Elementary?
Mildred Barry Garvin Elementary is overseen by East Orange School District in Essex County.
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