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Enrollment
635
Elementary
DISTRICT 638 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEWARK PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341134002266
Peshine Avenue School
433 Peshine Avenue, NEWARK, NJ 07112 · (973) 733-7004 · Essex County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL635 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 5% 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
13.5:1
47 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.0:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
80%
505 students
DISTRICT 80% · 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 | 117 | 18% |
| Kindergarten | 57 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 63 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 52 | 8% |
| Grade 3 | 67 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 50 | 8% |
| Grade 5 | 51 | 8% |
| Grade 6 | 49 | 8% |
| Grade 7 | 64 | 10% |
| Grade 8 | 65 | 10% |
This year's kindergarten class (57) is 12% smaller than its 8th grade class (65).
Student demographics
51%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 53% · 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
23.0%
NJ avg 53.1% . -0.9pp since 2023
Math
10.9%
NJ avg 41.6% . +0.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 23 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 11 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 | 23.0% | 10.9% |
| 2023-24 | 23.9% | 10.1% |
% 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
14.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
22.6%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 14% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 23% 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 Peshine Avenue School
Peshine Avenue School's state test result (14.2% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peshine Avenue School this school | 635 | 79.5% | 14.2% |
| Quitman Street School NEWARK | 706 | 84.4% | 9.7% |
| Camden Street Elementary School NEWARK | 685 | 86.0% | 10.4% |
| Jersey City Community Charter School JERSEY CITY | 561 | 82.5% | 28.5% |
| Whitney M. Young Jr. School JERSEY CITY | 623 | 86.7% | 6.5% |
| Pennsylvania Ave School Atlantic City | 566 | 85.7% | 15.7% |
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 Peshine Avenue School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Essex County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 14.2% | #1,211 of 1,290 | #118 of 131 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 10.9% | #1,255 of 1,319 ▼ 4 | #131 of 141 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 23.0% | #1,205 of 1,319 ▼ 44 | #125 of 141 ▼ 9 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 635 | #174 of 1,562 | #30 of 162 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.5:1 | #1,170 of 1,390 | #83 of 140 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 51.1% | #779 of 1,392 | #57 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 79.5% | #219 of 1,481 | #44 of 142 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.1% | #316 of 798 | #22 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
635
-7 (-1%) vs 2020
+22% since 1990-91, when it was 520
Student : Teacher
13.5:1
was 11.7:1
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 | 635 | 47 | 13.5:1 | 80% (505) |
| 2023-24 | 552 | 45 | 12.3:1 | 70% (388) |
| 2022-23 | 503 | 42 | 12.0:1 | 76% (381) |
| 2020-21 | 642 | 55 | 11.7:1 | 73% (468) |
| 2017-18 | 731 | 55 | 13.3:1 | 90% (657) |
| 2015-16 | 703 | 58 | 12.1:1 | 90% (630) |
| 2010-11 | 280 | 28 | 10.0:1 | 97% (271) |
| 2000-01 | 447 | 37 | 12.1:1 | 95% (424) |
| 1990-91 | 520 | 49 | 10.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Peshine Avenue School.
Since 2017-18: students down 13% (731 to 635); teachers down 15% (55 to 47).
About Peshine Avenue School
At 433 Peshine Avenue in NEWARK, New Jersey, Peshine Avenue School operates as a large elementary school. Students in pre-K through 8 make up the school's enrollment of 635 students. That compares with an average of about 405 students for elementary schools in New Jersey.
Peshine Avenue School is among 65 schools run by Newark Public School District, which serves 41,502 students.
The largest group at Peshine Avenue School is Black students, at 56%. Other groups include 42% Hispanic. By comparison, Essex County residents are about 36% Black. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Peshine Avenue School scores 51%.
Its ratio of 13.5:1 is based on 47 full-time-equivalent teachers. Elementary schools in New Jersey average 11.4:1, 2.1 fewer students per teacher than here. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 80%. On average, public schools in Essex County report 54%.
Among New Jersey public elementary schools, Peshine Avenue School outscored 5%, which works out to a D on the allk12 Grade.
Peshine Avenue School posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 14.2%, compared with a predicted 22.6%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of New Jersey schools on BeatsExpectations.
In Essex County, the median household earns about $80,789 a year, about 39% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 11%. Across Essex County, 249 public schools serve about 145,473 students.
Peshine Avenue School's nearest public school is TEAM Academy Charter School (less than a tenth of a mile). Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 19.4%; Peshine Avenue School's is 14.2%, ranking 5th of 8.
The federal government classifies Peshine Avenue School's location as City: Large.
Peshine Avenue School had 642 students in 2020-21 and 635 in 2024-25, nearly the same. There were more students per teacher in 2024-25 (13.5:1) than in 2020-21 (11.7:1).
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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 Newark Public School District
- East Side High SchoolHigh · 2,046 students
- Barringer High SchoolHigh · 1,894 students
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- First Avenue SchoolElementary · 1,084 students
- Early Childhood School - NorthElementary · 1,076 students
Other schools in NEWARK
- North Star Academy Charter SchoolCombined · 6,714 students
- TEAM Academy Charter SchoolCombined · 6,406 students
- Great Oaks Legacy Charter SchoolCombined · 2,169 students
- East Side High SchoolHigh · 2,046 students
- Barringer High SchoolHigh · 1,894 students
- Marion P. Thomas Charter SchoolCombined · 1,410 students
Nearby schools
- TEAM Academy Charter School0.1 mi · 6,406
- Belmont Runyon Elementary School0.5 mi · 508
- Hawthorne Avenue School0.6 mi · 444
- George Washington Carver Elementary School0.7 mi · 736
- Bruce Street School0.7 mi · 34
- People's Achieve Community Charter School0.7 mi · 796
Frequently asked questions
About Peshine Avenue SchoolHow many students attend Peshine Avenue School?
Peshine Avenue School enrolls approximately 635 students in grades PK-08.
Is Peshine Avenue School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Peshine Avenue School is an elementary school covering grades PK-08.
How many students per teacher at Peshine Avenue School?
Approximately 13.5:1 students per teacher at Peshine Avenue School.
How diverse is Peshine Avenue School?
Peshine Avenue School reports a student body of 0% White, 42% Hispanic, 56% Black, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Peshine Avenue School?
Peshine Avenue School is overseen by Newark Public School District in Essex County.
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