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What's one thing Paul Robeson Charter School for the Humanities gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
545
Elementary
STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PAUL ROBESON CHARTER SCHOOL FOR THE HUMANITIES·NCES 340072303015
Paul Robeson Charter School for the Humanities
643 INDIANA AVE, TRENTON, NJ 08638 · (609) 394-7727 · Mercer County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY13-CITYCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL545 STUDENTS
B-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 54% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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
16.5:1
33 FTE teachers
STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
95%
517 students
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 52 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 52 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 54 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 81 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 78 | 14% |
| Grade 6 | 78 | 14% |
| Grade 7 | 75 | 14% |
| Grade 8 | 75 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (52) is 31% smaller than its 8th grade class (75).
Student demographics
40%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
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
38.3%
NJ avg 53.1% . -5.8pp since 2023
Math
24.0%
NJ avg 41.6% . +0.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 38 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 24 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 38.3% | 24.0% |
| 2023-24 | 44.1% | 23.3% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NJ schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
31.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
14.2%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+16.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 31% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 14% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 17 points, placing it in New Jersey's top 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 Paul Robeson Charter School for the Humanities
Paul Robeson Charter School for the Humanities's state test result (31.2% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paul Robeson Charter School for the Humanities this school | 545 | 94.9% | 31.2% |
| Texas Avenue School Atlantic City | 496 | 91.3% | 20.9% |
| Sovereign Avenue School Atlantic City | 717 | 90.8% | 29.9% |
| Richmond Avenue School Atlantic City | 609 | 87.4% | 51.1% |
| Brighton Avenue School Atlantic City | 302 | 92.1% | 28.5% |
| School 27 PATERSON | 641 | 80.8% | 24.1% |
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 Paul Robeson Charter School for the Humanities ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Mercer County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 31.2% | #941 of 1,290 | #32 of 56 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 24.0% | #1,083 of 1,319 ▼ 41 | #38 of 56 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 38.3% | #965 of 1,319 ▼ 159 | #33 of 56 ▼ 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 545 | #312 of 1,562 | #9 of 60 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.5:1 | #1,354 of 1,390 | #57 of 57 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 40.2% | #1,044 of 1,392 | #48 of 57 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 94.9% | #21 of 1,481 | #2 of 58 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +43.4% | #34 of 545 | #3 of 22 |
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
545
+121 (+29%) vs 2020
+103% since 2010-11, when it was 269
Student : Teacher
16.5:1
was 11.5:1
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 | 545 | 33 | 16.5:1 | 95% (517) |
| 2023-24 | 434 | 36 | 12.1:1 | 76% (330) |
| 2022-23 | 432 | 35 | 12.3:1 | 98% (422) |
| 2020-21 | 424 | 37 | 11.5:1 | 97% (412) |
| 2017-18 | 380 | 30 | 12.7:1 | 95% (361) |
| 2015-16 | 375 | 33 | 11.4:1 | 94% (354) |
| 2010-11 | 269 | 24 | 11.2:1 | 86% (232) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Paul Robeson Charter School for the Humanities.
Since 2017-18: students up 43% (380 to 545); teachers up 10% (30 to 33).
About Paul Robeson Charter School for the Humanities
Paul Robeson Charter School for the Humanities is a medium-sized elementary school in TRENTON, New Jersey, administered by Paul Robeson Charter School for the Humanities. It enrolled 545 students in kindergarten through 8 for the 2024-25 school year. Enrollment is 35% higher than the average for elementary schools in New Jersey, which is about 405.
The school serves as its own district in federal records.
Paul Robeson Charter School for the Humanities's enrollment is 73% Hispanic. Other groups include 26% Asian. By comparison, Mercer County residents are about 23% Hispanic. The chance that two students picked at random at Paul Robeson Charter School for the Humanities belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 40%.
Its 33 full-time-equivalent teachers give the school a ratio of 16.5:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in New Jersey is 11.4:1, lower than at this school. The school's lunch program data list 95% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. That rate is above the 48% average among public schools in Mercer County.
The allk12 Grade for Paul Robeson Charter School for the Humanities is B-. Compared with New Jersey public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 54% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
The BeatsExpectations model predicts 14.2% for Paul Robeson Charter School for the Humanities, given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The actual figure is 31.2%. The 16.9-point gap ranks in the top 10% of New Jersey schools.
Mercer County has about 385,864 residents, and median household income is about $100,645, about 45% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. Federal data list 110 public schools in Mercer County, with a combined enrollment of about 58,647.
Dr. Crosby Copeland Jr Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of 9 schools in the immediate area with test results, Paul Robeson Charter School for the Humanities ranks 2nd on average proficiency.
Locale data from NCES put Paul Robeson Charter School for the Humanities inside a principal city with a population under 100,000 (City: Small). The school is a charter school, funded with public money and operated under a charter agreement.
Federal counts put enrollment at 424 in 2020-21 and 545 in 2024-25, a 29% gain. There were more students per teacher in 2024-25 (16.5:1) than in 2020-21 (11.5:1).
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Mercer County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
385,864
Census ACS
Median income
$100,645
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
45%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
110
58,647 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in TRENTON
- Trenton Central High School - Main CampusHigh · 2,097 students
- Foundation Academy Charter SchoolCombined · 1,155 students
- Trenton Central High School-9th Grade AcademyHigh · 890 students
- Capital City High SchoolHigh · 756 students
- Grace A Dunn Middle SchoolMiddle · 703 students
- Hedgepeth Williams Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 668 students
Nearby schools
- Dr. Crosby Copeland Jr Elementary0.4 mi · 353
- Darlene C. McKnight Elementary0.4 mi · 350
- Dr. Martin Luther King Middle School0.6 mi · 650
- Patton J. Hill Elementary School0.9 mi · 555
- Grant Intermediate School0.9 mi · 610
- Trenton Central High School-9th Grade Academy1.0 mi · 890
Frequently asked questions
About Paul Robeson Charter School for the HumanitiesHow large is Paul Robeson Charter School for the Humanities?
Paul Robeson Charter School for the Humanities enrolls approximately 545 students in grades KG-08.
What grades does Paul Robeson Charter School for the Humanities serve?
Paul Robeson Charter School for the Humanities serves grades KG-08.
How many students per teacher at Paul Robeson Charter School for the Humanities?
Approximately 16.5:1 students per teacher at Paul Robeson Charter School for the Humanities.
How diverse is Paul Robeson Charter School for the Humanities?
Paul Robeson Charter School for the Humanities reports a student body of 73% Hispanic, 0% Black, 26% Asian.
Who oversees Paul Robeson Charter School for the Humanities?
Paul Robeson Charter School for the Humanities is overseen by Paul Robeson Charter School for the Humanities in Mercer County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.