Nicholas Oresko Community School

Nicholas Oresko Community School is one of the mid-sized elementary schools in BAYONNE, New Jersey, part of Bayonne School District, with 388 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8.

Bayonne School District comprises 13 schools with combined enrollment of 10,325 students; Nicholas Oresko Community School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Nicholas Oresko Community School shows that 35% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 28% Hispanic, 21% Black, 12% Asian, 4% multiracial. Compared to Hudson County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.8:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 63% of students at Nicholas Oresko Community School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Nicholas Oresko Community School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 31.7%; this one delivers 44.5%.

Across the wider county, Hudson County reports that median household income runs about $91,795, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Hudson County's 130 public schools (combined enrollment of about 86,216 students), Nicholas Oresko Community School is one campus in the mix.

Philip G. Vroom Community School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Nicholas Oresko Community School. On composite proficiency, Nicholas Oresko Community School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 41.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Five-year trend. Nicholas Oresko Community School's enrollment has shrank 16% since 2018, when it stood at 462 (now 388). Over the same period, the Black share grew from 5% to 21%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 20.1:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 today.

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