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Enrollment
433
Elementary
DISTRICT 671 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BAYONNE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340126002722
Philip G. Vroom Community School
18 WEST 26TH ST, BAYONNE, NJ 07002 · (201) 858-5956 · Hudson County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL433 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 71% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- B-Test 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
9.8:1
44 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.2:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
71%
307 students
DISTRICT 64% · 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 | 52 | 12% |
| Kindergarten | 51 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 42 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 38 | 9% |
| Grade 3 | 37 | 9% |
| Grade 4 | 29 | 7% |
| Grade 5 | 48 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 51 | 12% |
| Grade 7 | 38 | 9% |
| Grade 8 | 47 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (51) is 9% larger than its 8th grade class (47).
Student demographics
73%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · 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
63.4%
NJ avg 53.1% . +7.3pp since 2023
Math
36.8%
NJ avg 41.6% . -4.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 63 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 37 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 5 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 63.4% | 36.8% |
| 2023-24 | 56.1% | 41.3% |
% 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
44.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
27.4%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+17.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 45% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 27% 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 Philip G. Vroom Community School
Philip G. Vroom Community School's state test result (44.6% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philip G. Vroom Community School this school | 433 | 70.9% | 44.6% |
| Lakehurst Elementary School LAKEHURST | 411 | 69.1% | 17.3% |
| Phillipsburg Early Childhood Learning Center PHILLIPSBURG | 449 | 73.7% | N/A |
| Mary J Donohoe Community School BAYONNE | 501 | 66.9% | 38.9% |
| Dawes Avenue Elementary School Somers Point | 341 | 73.0% | 28.3% |
| Nicholas Oresko Community School BAYONNE | 388 | 62.9% | 44.5% |
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 Philip G. Vroom Community School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Hudson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 44.6% | #644 of 1,290 | #21 of 84 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 36.8% | #853 of 1,319 ▼ 129 | #35 of 84 ▼ 13 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 63.4% | #413 of 1,319 ▲ 140 | #16 of 84 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 433 | #592 of 1,562 | #59 of 88 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.8:1 | #295 of 1,390 | #13 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 72.7% | #69 of 1,392 | #12 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 70.9% | #337 of 1,481 | #45 of 88 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.6% | #668 of 798 | #54 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
433
-52 (-11%) vs 2020
-19% since 1990-91, when it was 533
Student : Teacher
9.8:1
was 12.4:1
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 | 433 | 44 | 9.8:1 | 71% (307) |
| 2023-24 | 437 | 42 | 10.4:1 | 72% (313) |
| 2022-23 | 450 | 38 | 11.8:1 | 67% (303) |
| 2020-21 | 485 | 39 | 12.4:1 | 59% (284) |
| 2017-18 | 449 | 30 | 15.0:1 | 65% (294) |
| 2015-16 | 471 | 36 | 13.1:1 | 74% (348) |
| 2010-11 | 376 | 26 | 14.5:1 | 63% (236) |
| 2000-01 | 469 | 32 | 14.7:1 | 52% (242) |
| 1990-91 | 533 | 32 | 16.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Philip G. Vroom Community School.
Since 2017-18: students down 4% (449 to 433); teachers up 47% (30 to 44).
About Philip G. Vroom Community School
Philip G. Vroom Community School is one of the public schools in BAYONNE, New Jersey. It is a mid-sized elementary school. In all, 433 students attend the school in pre-K through 8.
Philip G. Vroom Community School is one of the 13 schools that make up Bayonne School District (10,325 students in total).
Of every 100 students at Philip G. Vroom Community School, about 37 are White, the largest group. It is also 32% Hispanic, 15% Black, 8% Asian, and 7% multiracial. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 73, compared with 70 nationally.
The school has 44 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 9.8 students per teacher. The average for elementary schools in New Jersey is 11.4:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. The school reported 71% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25.
Philip G. Vroom Community School holds a B+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 71% of New Jersey public elementary schools.
Compared with New Jersey schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Philip G. Vroom Community School does better than predicted by 17.3 points. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 44.6%; the prediction is 27.4%.
Census data for Hudson County show median household income comes to about $91,795, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 49%, and roughly 11% of residents are in poverty. There are 130 public schools in the county, enrolling about 86,216, Philip G. Vroom Community School among them.
Nicholas Oresko Community School is about 0.2 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools average 41.1% on proficiency, and Philip G. Vroom Community School is above that at 44.6%.
Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Large: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has fallen 11%, from 485 to 433. Students per teacher dropped from 12.4 in 2020-21 to 9.8 in 2024-25.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about open houses, carpools, and field trips at Philip G. Vroom Community School. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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
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- Woodrow Wilson Community SchoolElementary · 740 students
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Nearby schools
- Nicholas Oresko Community School0.2 mi · 388
- Lincoln Community School #50.3 mi · 497
- William Shemin Midtown Community School #80.3 mi · 1,203
- Walter F. Robinson Community School0.4 mi · 924
- Bayonne High School0.5 mi · 2,830
- Bayonne Alternative High School0.5 mi · 109
Frequently asked questions
About Philip G. Vroom Community SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Philip G. Vroom Community School?
Philip G. Vroom Community School enrolls approximately 433 students in grades PK-08.
What grades does Philip G. Vroom Community School serve?
Philip G. Vroom Community School serves grades PK-08.
How many teachers does Philip G. Vroom Community School have?
Philip G. Vroom Community School employs 44 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.8:1.
How diverse is Philip G. Vroom Community School?
Philip G. Vroom Community School reports a student body of 37% White, 32% Hispanic, 15% Black, 8% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees Philip G. Vroom Community School?
Philip G. Vroom Community School is overseen by Bayonne School District in Hudson County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.