Oliver Street School

Oliver Street School is one of the expansive elementary-level communitys in NEWARK, New Jersey, part of Newark Public School District, with 1,034 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 155% bigger than the state mean of about 405.

Within Newark Public School District, which oversees 65 schools and 41,502 students, Oliver Street School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Oliver Street School logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 63% of enrollment. Other groups include 33% White, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 25% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school reports having 77 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. Roughly 83% of students at Oliver Street School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Essex County's rate of about 54%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Oliver Street 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 20.7%; this one delivers 39.6%, a residual of +18.8 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Essex County indicate median household income runs about $80,789, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Essex County runs 249 public schools (combined enrollment of about 145,473 students), of which Oliver Street School is one.

East Ward Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Oliver Street School comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 30.4%.

Oliver Street School operates from a metropolitan location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 1,042 students in 2018 compared to 1,034 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 in 2025.

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