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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the President Barack Obama Elementary School administration to hear?
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Enrollment
425
Elementary
DISTRICT 601 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·JERSEY CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 340783002824
President Barack Obama Elementary School
1830 KENNEDY BLVD, JERSEY CITY, NJ 07305 · (201) 915-6550 · Hudson County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL425 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 6% 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.
- C-Beats 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
12.1:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.3:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
84%
357 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 | 40 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 56 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 40 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 54 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 48 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 38 | 9% |
| Grade 5 | 35 | 8% |
| Grade 6 | 38 | 9% |
| Grade 7 | 37 | 9% |
| Grade 8 | 39 | 9% |
This year's kindergarten class (56) is 44% larger than its 8th grade class (39).
Student demographics
60%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
23.5%
NJ avg 53.1% . +3.0pp since 2023
Math
11.7%
NJ avg 41.6% . +3.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 24 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 12 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 23.5% | 11.7% |
| 2023-24 | 20.5% | 8.0% |
% 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
13.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
20.2%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 13% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 20% 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 President Barack Obama Elementary School
President Barack Obama Elementary School's state test result (13.3% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| President Barack Obama Elementary School this school | 425 | 84.0% | 13.3% |
| Martin Center for the Arts JERSEY CITY | 359 | 84.4% | 10.1% |
| W. R. James Sr. Elementary School WILLINGBORO | 408 | 78.4% | 17.2% |
| Pennsylvania Ave School Atlantic City | 566 | 85.7% | 15.7% |
| Wilbur Watts Intermediate School BURLINGTON | 483 | 76.6% | 25.3% |
| Ola Edwards Community School HILLSIDE | 391 | 82.9% | 34.3% |
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 President Barack Obama Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Hudson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 13.3% | #1,222 of 1,290 | #79 of 84 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 11.7% | #1,251 of 1,319 ▲ 25 | #79 of 84 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 23.5% | #1,196 of 1,319 ▲ 6 | #77 of 84 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 425 | #617 of 1,562 | #63 of 88 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.1:1 | #914 of 1,390 | #57 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 60.0% | #493 of 1,392 | #40 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 84.0% | #146 of 1,481 | #17 of 88 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.0% | #575 of 798 | #44 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
425
-11 (-3%) vs 2020
-41% since 1990-91, when it was 725
Student : Teacher
12.1:1
was 11.2:1
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 | 425 | 35 | 12.1:1 | 84% (357) |
| 2023-24 | 397 | 33 | 12.0:1 | 72% (284) |
| 2022-23 | 420 | 31.5 | 13.3:1 | 64% (268) |
| 2020-21 | 436 | 39 | 11.2:1 | 64% (278) |
| 2017-18 | 452 | 42 | 10.8:1 | 78% (353) |
| 2015-16 | 522 | 44 | 11.9:1 | 86% (448) |
| 2010-11 | 579 | 45 | 12.9:1 | 87% (504) |
| 2000-01 | 735 | 46 | 16.0:1 | 82% (606) |
| 1990-91 | 725 | 42 | 17.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for President Barack Obama Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 6% (452 to 425); teachers down 17% (42 to 35).
About President Barack Obama Elementary School
President Barack Obama Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in New Jersey, with an address in JERSEY CITY. The school teaches pre-K through 8 and enrolls 425 students.
Enrollment across the 39 schools in Jersey City Public Schools totals 24,151 students.
The student body at President Barack Obama Elementary School is 56% Black. The school is also 28% Hispanic, 7% Asian, and 7% White. The Black share of the county population is lower, at 12%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 60%.
The school had 35 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25. Its student-to-teacher ratio is 12.1:1. It is about the same as the 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey. The eligibility rate for free or reduced-price meals is 84%. The gap from the 68% average for public schools in Hudson County is 16 points.
On the allk12 Grade, President Barack Obama Elementary School lands at D, ahead of 6% of New Jersey public elementary schools.
The school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 13.3%. For its free or reduced-price lunch share, the predicted value is 20.2%.
For Hudson County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $91,795 a year, roughly 49% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 11%. Public schools in Hudson County number 130, with about 86,216 students.
Dr. Maya Angelou Elementary School, about 0.4 miles away, is the closest public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among the 9 closest schools with test data, this one included, President Barack Obama Elementary School ranks 7th on average proficiency.
The NCES locale for President Barack Obama Elementary School is City: Large, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment figures show a drop of 11 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
The President Barack Obama Elementary School discussion page is a place for homework, tutoring, and testing dates. You can also rate the school on this page.
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
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- William L Dickinson High SchoolHigh · 1,786 students
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- Franklin L. Williams SchoolMiddle · 906 students
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- 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. Maya Angelou Elementary School0.4 mi · 607
- Jersey City Community Charter School0.4 mi · 561
- Whitney M. Young Jr. School0.4 mi · 623
- James F. Murray School0.4 mi · 642
- Infinity Institute0.5 mi · 265
- Academy I0.6 mi · 415
Frequently asked questions
About President Barack Obama Elementary SchoolHow many students attend President Barack Obama Elementary School?
President Barack Obama Elementary School enrolls approximately 425 students in grades PK-08.
What grades does President Barack Obama Elementary School serve?
President Barack Obama Elementary School serves grades PK-08.
How many teachers does President Barack Obama Elementary School have?
President Barack Obama Elementary School employs 35 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.1:1.
How diverse is President Barack Obama Elementary School?
President Barack Obama Elementary School reports a student body of 7% White, 28% Hispanic, 56% Black, 7% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is President Barack Obama Elementary School public or private?
President Barack Obama Elementary 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.