Number 9

Number 9 is a primary school of tight-knit scale in Linden, New Jersey, part of Linden Public School District, hosting 311 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 23% leaner than the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 405 students.

Linden Public School District comprises 11 schools with combined enrollment of 6,441 students; Number 9 is among them.

On the student-mix side, Number 9 logs that 43% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 27% Black, 18% White, 5% Asian, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 35% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. Roughly 60% of students at Number 9 qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Union County runs at roughly 52%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Number 9 performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.1%, the actual is 38.9%, a residual of +5.8 points.

Across the wider county, Union County reports that the typical household earns roughly $103,202 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Union County's 180 public schools (combined enrollment of about 99,046 students), Number 9 is one campus in the mix.

Myles J. McManus MIddle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Number 9 comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 25.6%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Number 9 has decreased 10%, going from 344 students in 2018 to 311 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 39% to 18% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 10.0:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.