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Enrollment
335
Elementary
DISTRICT 601 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·JERSEY CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 340783002796
Ollie Culbreth Jr. School
153 UNION ST, JERSEY CITY, NJ 07304 · (201) 915-6430 · Hudson County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL335 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 3% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New Jersey public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
8.8:1
38 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.3:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
85%
286 students
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 41%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 39 | 12% |
| Kindergarten | 34 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 41 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 29 | 9% |
| Grade 3 | 35 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 28 | 8% |
| Grade 5 | 27 | 8% |
| Grade 6 | 33 | 10% |
| Grade 7 | 34 | 10% |
| Grade 8 | 35 | 10% |
This year's kindergarten class (34) is about the same size as its 8th grade class (35).
Student demographics
51%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 74% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
15.6%
NJ avg 53.1% . +0.8pp since 2023
Math
6.8%
NJ avg 41.6% . +0.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 16 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 7 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 15.6% | 6.8% |
| 2023-24 | 14.8% | 6.5% |
% Meeting or Exceeding Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: NJSLA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
9.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
19.4%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 9% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 19% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New Jersey's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Ollie Culbreth Jr. School
Ollie Culbreth Jr. School's state test result (9.0% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ollie Culbreth Jr. School this school | 335 | 85.4% | 9.0% |
| Martin Center for the Arts JERSEY CITY | 359 | 84.4% | 10.1% |
| Benjamin C Gregory Elementary School TRENTON | 311 | 91.0% | 13.5% |
| South 17th Street School NEWARK | 368 | 90.8% | 21.6% |
| Atlantic Community Charter School Galloway | 333 | 93.4% | 14.6% |
| W. R. James Sr. Elementary School WILLINGBORO | 408 | 78.4% | 17.2% |
Matched among New Jersey elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Ollie Culbreth Jr. School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Hudson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 9.0% | #1,259 of 1,290 | #82 of 84 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 6.8% | #1,293 of 1,319 ▼ 1 | #81 of 84 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 15.6% | #1,270 of 1,319 ▼ 11 | #81 of 84 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 335 | #960 of 1,562 | #74 of 88 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.8:1 | #112 of 1,390 | #4 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 51.3% | #769 of 1,392 | #49 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 85.4% | #121 of 1,481 | #12 of 88 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -21.5% | #149 of 798 | #16 of 61 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
335
-83 (-20%) vs 2020
-60% since 1990-91, when it was 840
Student : Teacher
8.8:1
was 10.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 335 | 38 | 8.8:1 | 85% (286) |
| 2023-24 | 364 | 46.1 | 7.9:1 | 75% (272) |
| 2022-23 | 422 | 38.5 | 11.0:1 | 67% (284) |
| 2020-21 | 418 | 41 | 10.2:1 | 70% (292) |
| 2017-18 | 427 | 52.5 | 8.1:1 | 77% (329) |
| 2015-16 | 577 | 54 | 10.7:1 | 79% (453) |
| 2010-11 | 417 | 35 | 11.9:1 | 84% (351) |
| 2000-01 | 654 | 49 | 13.3:1 | 89% (584) |
| 1990-91 | 840 | 53 | 15.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Ollie Culbreth Jr. School.
Since 2017-18: students down 22% (427 to 335); teachers down 28% (52.5 to 38).
About Ollie Culbreth Jr. School
The public elementary school Ollie Culbreth Jr. School is located in JERSEY CITY, New Jersey. The school enrolls 335 students in pre-K through 8.
Across its 39 schools, Jersey City Public Schools enrolls 24,151 students. Ollie Culbreth Jr. School is one of those schools.
The student body at Ollie Culbreth Jr. School is 64% Black. It is also 27% Hispanic and 5% White. Hudson County's residents are about 12% Black, 52 points below the school's share. A diversity index of 51% means there is a 51% chance two randomly chosen students at Ollie Culbreth Jr. School are from different groups.
For every teacher at Ollie Culbreth Jr. School, there are about 8.8 students; the school has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in New Jersey is 11.4:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. There are 286 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 85% of enrollment. For comparison, public schools in Hudson County average 68%.
Ollie Culbreth Jr. School earns an F on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 3% of New Jersey public elementary schools.
The model predicts 19.4% for a school in New Jersey with Ollie Culbreth Jr. School's free or reduced-price lunch share. Ollie Culbreth Jr. School posts 9.0%.
In Hudson County, the median household earns about $91,795 a year, about 49% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 11% of residents are in poverty. Hudson County has 130 public schools with about 86,216 students, including Ollie Culbreth Jr. School.
Dr Lena Edwards Academic Charter School is the nearest public school to Ollie Culbreth Jr. School, about 0.2 miles away. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Ollie Culbreth Jr. School comes in 9th of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
NCES assigns Ollie Culbreth Jr. School the locale City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 335, from 418 in 2020-21. The number of students per teacher dropped from 10.2 to 8.8 over 4 years.
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Hudson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
718,323
Census ACS
Median income
$91,795
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
49%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
130
86,216 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Jersey City Public Schools
- William L Dickinson High SchoolHigh · 1,786 students
- James J Ferris High SchoolHigh · 1,364 students
- Cornelia F. Bradford SchoolElementary · 1,082 students
- Joseph H. Brensinger SchoolElementary · 926 students
- Christa McAuliffe SchoolElementary · 906 students
- Franklin L. Williams SchoolMiddle · 906 students
Other schools in JERSEY CITY
- William L Dickinson High SchoolHigh · 1,786 students
- BelovED Community Charter SchoolCombined · 1,573 students
- James J Ferris High SchoolHigh · 1,364 students
- Empowerment Academy Charter SchoolCombined · 1,272 students
- Cornelia F. Bradford SchoolElementary · 1,082 students
- Joseph H. Brensinger SchoolElementary · 926 students
Nearby schools
- Dr Lena Edwards Academic Charter School0.2 mi · 383
- Chaplain Charles Watters School0.4 mi · 586
- Gladys Nunery School0.4 mi · 251
- Lincoln High School0.4 mi · 767
- Empowerment Academy Charter School0.5 mi · 1,272
- Julia A. Barnes School0.5 mi · 433
Frequently asked questions
About Ollie Culbreth Jr. SchoolHow large is Ollie Culbreth Jr. School?
Ollie Culbreth Jr. School enrolls approximately 335 students in grades PK-08.
What age range does Ollie Culbreth Jr. School serve?
Ollie Culbreth Jr. School serves students from grade PK through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Ollie Culbreth Jr. School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Ollie Culbreth Jr. School is approximately 8.8:1 (38 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Ollie Culbreth Jr. School?
At Ollie Culbreth Jr. School, the student body is approximately 5% White, 27% Hispanic, 64% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is Ollie Culbreth Jr. School public or private?
Ollie Culbreth Jr. School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Jersey City Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.