Newark Educators Community Charter School

Located at 12 Fulton St, in Newark, New Jersey, Newark Educators Community Charter School is a minimally staffed elementary campus that enrolls 142 students (grades pre-K through 4), one of the schools within Newark Educators Community Charter School. Enrollment runs roughly 65% below the state mean of about 405.

Newark Educators Community Charter School is the operating authority for Newark Educators Community Charter School, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Newark Educators Community Charter School records that 71% of the student body identifies as Black. Beyond that, the school shows 28% Hispanic. By comparison, Essex County as a whole is about 36% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Newark Educators Community Charter School has 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.8:1. The state averages about 11.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 81% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Essex County (around 54%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Newark Educators Community Charter School ranks in the top 10% of New Jersey public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 21.8%; Newark Educators Community Charter School posts 40.7%, +18.9 points above that line.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Essex County put the typical household earns roughly $80,789 per year, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Newark Educators Community Charter School is one of 249 public schools in Essex County (combined enrollment of about 145,473 students).

North Star Academy Charter School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Newark Educators Community Charter School. On composite proficiency, Newark Educators Community Charter School comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 29.8%.

Newark Educators Community Charter School operates from a city-core location. Newark Educators Community Charter School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 51%: 291 students in 2018 compared to 142 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 18% to 28% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 today.

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