President Barack Obama Elementary School

President Barack Obama Elementary School, a medium-sized elementary school in JERSEY CITY, New Jersey, operated by Jersey City Public Schools, hosts 425 students, covering grades pre-K through 8.

Within Jersey City Public Schools, which oversees 39 schools and 24,151 students, President Barack Obama Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, President Barack Obama Elementary School shows that the largest single group is Black, at 56% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 28% Hispanic, 7% Asian, 7% White. The wider county runs roughly 12% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 84% of students at President Barack Obama Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Hudson County's rate of about 68%.

After controlling for student poverty, President Barack Obama Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 20.2%, the actual is 13.3%, a residual of -6.9 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Hudson County put the typical household earns roughly $91,795 per year, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Hudson County runs 130 public schools (combined enrollment of about 86,216 students), of which President Barack Obama Elementary School is one.

Dr. Maya Angelou Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), President Barack Obama Elementary School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 43.9%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 6%: 452 students in 2018 compared to 425 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked up from 2% to 7% over that span. Class-load math has grew: from 10.8:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 in 2025.

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