Enrollment
423
Elementary
DISTRICT 374 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ORANGE BOARD OF EDUCATION SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341227002412
Park Avenue Elementary School
231 PARK AVE, ORANGE, NJ 07050 · (973) 677-4124 · Essex County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL423 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 9% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- DTest 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
12.6:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.7:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
65%
276 students
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 41%
Community
0
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 | 24 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 47 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 50 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 50 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 52 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 49 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 44 | 10% |
| Grade 6 | 53 | 13% |
| Grade 7 | 54 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (47) is 13% smaller than its 7th grade class (54).
Student demographics
51%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · 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
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NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
26.6%
NJ avg 53.1% . -6.9pp since 2023
Math
17.8%
NJ avg 41.6% . -1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 27 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 18 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 7 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 26.6% | 17.8% |
| 2023-24 | 33.5% | 18.8% |
% 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
22.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
30.4%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 22% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 30% 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 Park Avenue Elementary School
Park Avenue Elementary School's state test result (22.1% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Park Avenue Elementary School this school | 423 | 65.2% | 22.1% |
| Grover Cleveland Elementary School RAHWAY | 453 | 66.7% | 29.0% |
| Parkway Elementary School EWING | 418 | 64.8% | 17.9% |
| Berkeley Terrace Elementary School IRVINGTON | 464 | 72.2% | 15.2% |
| Forest Street Community Elementary School ORANGE | 384 | 70.1% | 32.7% |
| Madison Avenue IRVINGTON | 524 | 69.8% | 11.1% |
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 Park Avenue Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Essex County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 22.1% | #1,096 of 1,290 | #89 of 131 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 17.8% | #1,183 of 1,319 ▼ 66 | #111 of 141 ▼ 18 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 26.6% | #1,157 of 1,319 ▼ 144 | #114 of 141 ▼ 23 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 423 | #627 of 1,562 | #77 of 162 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.6:1 | #1,022 of 1,390 | #59 of 140 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 51.4% | #766 of 1,392 | #54 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 65.2% | #403 of 1,481 | #72 of 142 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.0% | #533 of 798 | #44 of 73 |
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
423
-2 (0%) vs 2020
+47% since 1990-91, when it was 287
Student : Teacher
12.6:1
was 10.9:1
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 | 423 | 33.5 | 12.6:1 | 65% (276) |
| 2023-24 | 417 | 36.5 | 11.4:1 | 81% (338) |
| 2022-23 | 387 | 38.5 | 10.1:1 | 60% (233) |
| 2020-21 | 425 | 39 | 10.9:1 | 78% (330) |
| 2017-18 | 455 | 40.5 | 11.2:1 | 72% (328) |
| 2015-16 | 408 | 39 | 10.5:1 | 74% (303) |
| 2010-11 | 347 | 25 | 13.9:1 | 68% (235) |
| 2000-01 | 294 | 22 | 13.4:1 | 87% (257) |
| 1990-91 | 287 | 19 | 15.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Park Avenue Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 7% (455 to 423); teachers down 17% (40.5 to 33.5).
About Park Avenue Elementary School
Park Avenue Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school in ORANGE BOARD OF EDUCATION School District, located in ORANGE, New Jersey. Classes run from pre-K through 8, and the school has 423 students.
ORANGE BOARD OF EDUCATION School District runs Park Avenue Elementary School along with 11 other schools, enrolling 5,527 students in total.
Roughly 53% of students at Park Avenue Elementary School are Black. The rest of enrollment is 46% Hispanic. Among all residents of Essex County, the Black share is about 36%. Park Avenue Elementary School's diversity index is 51%, against a US figure of 70%.
Its teaching staff equals 33.5 full-time positions, a ratio of 12.6:1. On average, elementary schools in New Jersey have 11.4:1, compared with 12.6:1 here. Around 65% of the school's students qualify for free or reduced-price meals. The gap from the 54% average for public schools in Essex County is 11 points.
Park Avenue Elementary School is graded D by allk12, scoring above 9% of New Jersey public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate on state tests with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Park Avenue Elementary School, the prediction is 30.4% and the result is 22.1%.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Essex County show that the median household income is $80,789, about 39% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 11%. Besides Park Avenue Elementary School, Essex County has 248 other public schools.
The next-closest public school is East Orange Community Charter School, about 0.2 miles away. Park Avenue Elementary School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Local comparison: Park Avenue Elementary School ranks 5th of 6 nearby schools, at 22.1% versus a 27.5% average.
For locale, NCES codes Park Avenue Elementary School as Suburb: Large.
Enrollment has been fairly stable: 425 in 2020-21 and 423 in 2024-25. Students per teacher rose from 10.9 in 2020-21 to 12.6 in 2024-25.
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Essex County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
863,002
Census ACS
Median income
$80,789
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
249
145,473 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ORANGE BOARD OF EDUCATION School District
- Orange High SchoolHigh · 1,368 students
- Lincoln Avenue Elementary SchoolElementary · 728 students
- Rosa Parks Community SchoolMiddle · 593 students
- Orange Preparatory Academy School of Inquiry and InnovationMiddle · 397 students
- Forest Street Community Elementary SchoolElementary · 384 students
- Central Elementary SchoolElementary · 369 students
Other schools in ORANGE
- Orange High SchoolHigh · 1,368 students
- Lincoln Avenue Elementary SchoolElementary · 728 students
- Rosa Parks Community SchoolMiddle · 593 students
- Orange Preparatory Academy School of Inquiry and InnovationMiddle · 397 students
- Forest Street Community Elementary SchoolElementary · 384 students
- Central Elementary SchoolElementary · 369 students
Other Park Avenue Elementary schools
11 other US public schools in 10 states are named Park Avenue Elementary. Park Avenue Elementary School is the 7th largest of the 12.
- Park Avenue Elementary SchoolFreehold, NJ · 463 students
- Park Avenue ElementaryWebster, MA · 738 students
- PARK AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLSTUTTGART, AR · 641 students
- Park Avenue ElementaryYuba City, CA · 541 students
- Park Avenue Elementary SchoolMount Gilead, OH · 475 students
Nearby schools
- East Orange Community Charter School0.2 mi · 414
- Orange Early Childhood Center0.3 mi · 195
- Central Elementary School0.4 mi · 369
- Cleveland Street Elementary School0.4 mi · 255
- Rosa Parks Community School0.5 mi · 593
- J. Garfield Jackson Sr. Academy0.7 mi · 247
Frequently asked questions
About Park Avenue Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Park Avenue Elementary School?
Park Avenue Elementary School enrolls approximately 423 students in grades PK-08.
What grades does Park Avenue Elementary School serve?
Park Avenue Elementary School serves grades PK-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Park Avenue Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Park Avenue Elementary School is approximately 12.6:1 (34 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Park Avenue Elementary School?
At Park Avenue Elementary School, the student body is approximately 0% White, 46% Hispanic, 53% Black, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Park Avenue Elementary School?
Park Avenue Elementary School is overseen by ORANGE BOARD OF EDUCATION School District in Essex County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.