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Enrollment
529
Elementary
DISTRICT 536 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CARTERET PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340282003276
Private Nicholas Minue Elementary School
83 POST BLVD, CARTERET, NJ 07008 · (732) 541-8960 · Middlesex County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL529 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 66% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- C+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
11.2:1
47 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.3:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
71%
378 students
DISTRICT 77% · 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 | 87 | 16% |
| Kindergarten | 83 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 87 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 87 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 98 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 87 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (83) is about the same size as its 4th grade class (87).
Student demographics
70%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Private Nicholas Minue Elementary School→Carteret Middle School→Carteret Junior High School→Carteret High School
Based on grade levels within Carteret Public School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
41.4%
NJ avg 53.1% . -4.3pp since 2023
Math
36.2%
NJ avg 41.6% . -8.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 36 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 9 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 41.4% | 36.2% |
| 2023-24 | 45.7% | 44.9% |
% 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
42.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
27.1%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+15.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 42% 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 15 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 Private Nicholas Minue Elementary School
Private Nicholas Minue Elementary School's state test result (42.0% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Private Nicholas Minue Elementary School this school | 529 | 71.5% | 42.0% |
| Jersey City Golden Door Charter School JERSEY CITY | 662 | 59.8% | 45.8% |
| Patricia M. Noonan School PS #26 Jersey City | 539 | 54.5% | 35.5% |
| School 27 PATERSON | 641 | 80.8% | 24.1% |
| Nicolaus Copernicus School JERSEY CITY | 497 | 55.5% | 45.6% |
| School 5 PATERSON | 753 | 74.8% | 26.0% |
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 Private Nicholas Minue Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Middlesex County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 42.0% | #698 of 1,290 | #70 of 111 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 36.2% | #863 of 1,319 ▼ 198 | #84 of 111 ▼ 15 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.4% | #893 of 1,319 ▼ 118 | #75 of 111 ▼ 11 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 529 | #338 of 1,562 | #38 of 130 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.2:1 | #667 of 1,390 | #56 of 120 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.7% | #162 of 1,392 | #39 of 121 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 71.5% | #333 of 1,481 | #22 of 128 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -22.0% | #141 of 798 | #27 of 84 |
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
529
-90 (-15%) vs 2020
+32% since 1990-91, when it was 400
Student : Teacher
11.2:1
was 12.1:1
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 | 529 | 47.3 | 11.2:1 | 71% (378) |
| 2023-24 | 527 | 44.9 | 11.7:1 | 65% (340) |
| 2022-23 | 508 | 45.1 | 11.3:1 | 63% (318) |
| 2020-21 | 619 | 51 | 12.1:1 | 63% (387) |
| 2017-18 | 678 | 52.5 | 12.9:1 | 64% (431) |
| 2015-16 | 655 | 51 | 12.8:1 | 60% (394) |
| 2010-11 | 630 | 38 | 16.6:1 | 47% (295) |
| 2000-01 | 787 | 42 | 18.7:1 | 48% (377) |
| 1990-91 | 400 | 22 | 18.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Private Nicholas Minue Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 22% (678 to 529); teachers down 10% (52.5 to 47.3).
About Private Nicholas Minue Elementary School
Private Nicholas Minue Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school based in CARTERET, New Jersey. Classes run from pre-K through 4, and the school has 529 students. Against the 405-student average for elementary schools in New Jersey, enrollment here is 31% higher.
Across its 6 schools, Carteret Public School District enrolls 3,903 students. Private Nicholas Minue Elementary School is one of those schools.
By race and ethnicity, the largest group at Private Nicholas Minue Elementary School is Asian (40%). Other students are 35% Hispanic, 11% White, 11% Black, and 3% multiracial. That is higher than the 26% Asian share among all Middlesex County residents. By the diversity index, Private Nicholas Minue Elementary School comes in at 70%.
Its 47.3 full-time-equivalent teachers give the school a ratio of 11.2:1. Elementary schools in New Jersey have a similar average ratio of 11.4:1. The school's lunch program data list 71% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. That rate is above the 42% average among public schools in Middlesex County.
allk12 grades Private Nicholas Minue Elementary School a B+. The grade compares the school only with New Jersey public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
The school's average proficiency rate on state tests, 42.0%, is 15.0 points above the 27.1% the model predicts from its free or reduced-price lunch share. That result is in the top 10% of New Jersey schools.
Private Nicholas Minue Elementary School is located in Middlesex County, where median household income is about $111,549, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 46%, and about 6% of people live in poverty. Private Nicholas Minue Elementary School is one of 214 public schools in Middlesex County, which together enroll about 129,255 students.
Carteret Middle School is the closest public school, about 1.2 miles away in a straight line. Private Nicholas Minue Elementary School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Private Nicholas Minue Elementary School comes in 1st of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count dropped from 619 to 529.
Parents and students can post about school events, clubs, and volunteer needs at Private Nicholas Minue Elementary School. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Middlesex County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
871,290
Census ACS
Median income
$111,549
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
46%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
214
129,255 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Carteret Public School District
- Carteret High SchoolHigh · 1,188 students
- Columbus Elementary SchoolElementary · 642 students
- Carteret Junior High SchoolMiddle · 568 students
- Carteret Middle SchoolMiddle · 540 students
- Nathan Hale Elementary SchoolElementary · 436 students
Other schools in CARTERET
- Carteret High SchoolHigh · 1,188 students
- Columbus Elementary SchoolElementary · 642 students
- Carteret Junior High SchoolMiddle · 568 students
- Carteret Middle SchoolMiddle · 540 students
- Nathan Hale Elementary SchoolElementary · 436 students
Nearby schools
- Carteret Middle School1.2 mi · 540
- Nathan Hale Elementary School1.2 mi · 436
- Carteret High School1.4 mi · 1,188
- Carteret Junior High School1.4 mi · 568
- Grover Cleveland Elementary School1.6 mi · 453
- Number 21.6 mi · 602
Frequently asked questions
About Private Nicholas Minue Elementary SchoolHow large is Private Nicholas Minue Elementary School?
Private Nicholas Minue Elementary School enrolls approximately 529 students in grades PK-04.
What grades does Private Nicholas Minue Elementary School serve?
Private Nicholas Minue Elementary School serves grades PK-04.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Private Nicholas Minue Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Private Nicholas Minue Elementary School is approximately 11.2:1 (47 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Private Nicholas Minue Elementary School?
At Private Nicholas Minue Elementary School, the student body is approximately 11% White, 35% Hispanic, 11% Black, 40% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is Private Nicholas Minue Elementary School public or private?
Private Nicholas Minue Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Carteret Public School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.