Ollie Culbreth Jr. School

Located at 153 UNION ST, in JERSEY CITY, New Jersey, Ollie Culbreth Jr. School is a small elementary campus that serves 335 students (grades pre-K through 8), run under Jersey City Public Schools.

Across the 39 schools in Jersey City Public Schools (24,151 students total), Ollie Culbreth Jr. School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Ollie Culbreth Jr. School shows that Black students make up the majority at 64%. Other groups include 27% Hispanic, 5% White. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 12%.

On the resource side, On paper, Ollie Culbreth Jr. School has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.8:1. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 85% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Hudson County (around 68%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Ollie Culbreth Jr. School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 19.4%, the actual is 9.0%, a residual of -10.4 points.

In the surrounding community, Hudson County reports that the typical household earns roughly $91,795 per year, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Ollie Culbreth Jr. School is one of 130 public schools in Hudson County (combined enrollment of about 86,216 students).

The closest other public school is Dr Lena Edwards Academic Charter School, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Ollie Culbreth Jr. School comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 21.8%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Ollie Culbreth Jr. School has contracted 22%, going from 427 students in 2018 to 335 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 72% to 64% across the same window.

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