Enrollment
300
Middle
STATE 578
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PRIDE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340071903017
Pride Academy Charter School
117 ELMWOOD AVE, EAST ORANGE, NJ 07018 · (973) 672-3200 · Essex County
GRADES 05–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL300 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 68% of New Jersey public middle schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
16.0:1
19 FTE teachers
STATE 10.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
78%
235 students
STATE 41%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 5 | 75 | 25% |
| Grade 6 | 75 | 25% |
| Grade 7 | 75 | 25% |
| Grade 8 | 75 | 25% |
Student demographics
12%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
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NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
53.4%
NJ avg 53.1% . -6.9pp since 2023
Math
33.8%
NJ avg 41.6% . -7.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 34 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 8 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 53.4% | 33.8% |
| 2023-24 | 60.3% | 41.4% |
% 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
40.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
23.3%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+17.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 23% 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 Pride Academy Charter School
Pride Academy Charter School's state test result (40.6% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pride Academy Charter School this school | 300 | 78.3% | 40.6% |
| Willingboro Memorial Middle School WILLINGBORO | 550 | 70.4% | 16.8% |
| Salem Middle School SALEM | 472 | 80.1% | 9.3% |
| Discovery Charter School NEWARK | 99 | 84.8% | 43.8% |
| James A Cotten Intermediate School Willingboro | 542 | 73.4% | 12.0% |
| Thomas Jefferson Intermediate School Trenton | 329 | 78.4% | 2.7% |
Matched among New Jersey middle 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 Pride Academy Charter School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Essex County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 40.6% | #251 of 433 | #18 of 27 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 33.8% | #284 of 437 ▼ 79 | #19 of 28 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 53.4% | #272 of 437 ▼ 74 | #19 of 28 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 300 | #371 of 445 | #25 of 29 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.0:1 | #411 of 417 | #28 of 28 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 11.9% | #408 of 419 | #28 of 28 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 78.3% | #42 of 436 | #3 of 27 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +4.5% | #82 of 122 | #4 of 11 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
300
0 (0%) vs 2020
+26% since 2010-11, when it was 239
Student : Teacher
16.0:1
was 12.5:1
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 | 300 | 18.8 | 16.0:1 | 78% (235) |
| 2023-24 | 297 | 22.8 | 13.1:1 | N/A |
| 2022-23 | 299 | 22.9 | 13.1:1 | 78% (234) |
| 2020-21 | 300 | 24 | 12.5:1 | 72% (216) |
| 2017-18 | 287 | 25 | 11.5:1 | 76% (217) |
| 2015-16 | 288 | 28 | 10.3:1 | 79% (227) |
| 2010-11 | 239 | 14 | 17.1:1 | 88% (210) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Pride Academy Charter School.
Since 2017-18: students up 5% (287 to 300); teachers down 25% (25 to 18.8).
About Pride Academy Charter School
Pride Academy Charter School is a small middle school based in EAST ORANGE, New Jersey. In all, 300 students attend the school in grades 5 through 8. That is 48% below the average of about 578 students for middle schools in New Jersey.
Pride Academy Charter School is part of Pride Academy Charter School District.
Black students account for 94% of the school's enrollment. Other reported shares: 6% Hispanic. Essex County's residents are about 36% Black, 57 points below the school's share. A diversity index of 12% means there is a 12% chance two randomly chosen students at Pride Academy Charter School are from different groups.
The school has 18.8 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 16.0 students per teacher. The average for middle schools in New Jersey is 10.9:1, so this school has more students per teacher. The school reported 78% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. On average, public schools in Essex County report 54%.
Among New Jersey public middle schools, Pride Academy Charter School outscored 68%, which works out to a B+ on the allk12 Grade.
The BeatsExpectations model predicts 23.3% for Pride Academy Charter School, given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The actual figure is 40.6%. The 17.3-point gap ranks in the top 10% of New Jersey schools.
In the surrounding county, Essex County, the median household earns about $80,789 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 39%, and roughly 11% of residents are in poverty. Essex County has 249 public schools with about 145,473 students, including Pride Academy Charter School.
Langston Hughes Elementary School is the nearest public school to Pride Academy Charter School, about 0.1 miles away. Pride Academy Charter School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Among 5 nearby schools that report test results, Pride Academy Charter School ranks 1st on proficiency.
In the federal locale system, Pride Academy Charter School is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more. Pride Academy Charter School is a public charter school.
Enrollment at Pride Academy Charter School was 300 in 2020-21 and 300 in 2024-25, a change of less than 3%. The student-to-teacher ratio went up from 12.5:1 to 16.0:1.
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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
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Other schools in EAST ORANGE
- East Orange Campus High SchoolHigh · 1,798 students
- Cicely L. Tyson Community Middle/High SchoolHigh · 701 students
- East Orange STEM Academy High SchoolHigh · 646 students
- Edward T. Bowser Sr. School of ExcellenceElementary · 612 students
- Langston Hughes Elementary SchoolElementary · 554 students
- Cicely L. Tyson Community Elementary SchoolElementary · 481 students
Nearby schools
- Langston Hughes Elementary School0.1 mi · 554
- Ecole Toussaint Louverture0.3 mi · 269
- Speedway Avenue School0.6 mi · 525
- Dionne Warwick Institute0.6 mi · 379
- Fourteenth Avenue School0.8 mi · 104
- Cicely L. Tyson Community Elementary School0.8 mi · 481
Frequently asked questions
About Pride Academy Charter SchoolHow many students attend Pride Academy Charter School?
Pride Academy Charter School enrolls approximately 300 students in grades 05-08.
Is Pride Academy Charter School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Pride Academy Charter School is a middle school covering grades 05-08.
How many students per teacher at Pride Academy Charter School?
Approximately 16.0:1 students per teacher at Pride Academy Charter School.
How diverse is Pride Academy Charter School?
Pride Academy Charter School reports a student body of 0% White, 6% Hispanic, 94% Black.
Who oversees Pride Academy Charter School?
Pride Academy Charter School is overseen by Pride Academy Charter School District in Essex County.
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