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Enrollment
758
Elementary
DISTRICT 567 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WEST NEW YORK SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341758002940
Public School Number One
6129 MADISON ST, WEST NEW YORK, NJ 07093 · (201) 553-4025 · Hudson County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL758 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 53% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- CTest 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
13.0:1
58 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.5:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
92%
698 students
DISTRICT 86% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 100 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 98 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 109 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 106 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 109 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 128 | 17% |
| Grade 6 | 108 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (100) is 7% smaller than its 6th grade class (108).
Student demographics
5%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 11% · 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
Based on grade levels within West New York School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
39.8%
NJ avg 53.1% . +2.5pp since 2023
Math
33.5%
NJ avg 41.6% . +6.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 40 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 up about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 39.8% | 33.5% |
| 2023-24 | 37.3% | 26.6% |
% 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
30.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
15.8%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+15.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 31% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 16% 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 Public School Number One
Public School Number One's state test result (30.9% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public School Number One this school | 758 | 92.1% | 30.9% |
| Blanquita B. Valenti Community School New Brunswick | 810 | 93.7% | 23.7% |
| Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School UNION CITY | 871 | 92.1% | 41.8% |
| Abington Avenue School NEWARK | 842 | 89.4% | 24.1% |
| A Chester Redshaw School NEW BRUNSWICK | 678 | 88.6% | 21.0% |
| Paul Robeson Community School for the Arts NEW BRUNSWICK | 624 | 93.4% | 21.5% |
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 Public School Number One ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Hudson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 30.9% | #946 of 1,290 | #60 of 84 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 33.5% | #906 of 1,319 ▲ 83 | #47 of 84 ▲ 11 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 39.8% | #939 of 1,319 ▲ 2 | #64 of 84 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 758 | #78 of 1,562 | #18 of 88 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.0:1 | #1,087 of 1,390 | #62 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 5.4% | #1,388 of 1,392 | #86 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 92.1% | #37 of 1,481 | #2 of 88 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.5% | #446 of 798 | #43 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
758
-57 (-7%) vs 2020
-14% since 1990-91, when it was 877
Student : Teacher
13.0:1
was 14.8:1
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 | 758 | 58.4 | 13.0:1 | 92% (698) |
| 2023-24 | 792 | 55 | 14.4:1 | 86% (685) |
| 2022-23 | 769 | 56.6 | 13.6:1 | 89% (686) |
| 2020-21 | 815 | 55 | 14.8:1 | 87% (706) |
| 2017-18 | 838 | 59 | 14.2:1 | 84% (703) |
| 2015-16 | 862 | 62 | 13.9:1 | 84% (723) |
| 2010-11 | 629 | 50 | 12.6:1 | 81% (511) |
| 2000-01 | 970 | 71 | 13.7:1 | 80% (773) |
| 1990-91 | 877 | 51 | 17.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Public School Number One.
Since 2017-18: students down 10% (838 to 758); teachers down 1% (59 to 58.4).
About Public School Number One
Families in WEST NEW YORK, New Jersey, are served by Public School Number One, a large elementary school. Enrollment totals 758 students across kindergarten through 6. That puts enrollment 87% bigger than the 405-student average for elementary schools in New Jersey.
West New York School District runs Public School Number One along with 8 other schools, enrolling 7,399 students in total.
Of every 100 students at Public School Number One, about 97 are Hispanic. That is higher than the 41% Hispanic share among all Hudson County residents. A diversity index of 5% means there is a 5% chance two randomly chosen students at Public School Number One are from different groups.
Its staff includes 58.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 13.0 students per teacher. Across elementary schools in New Jersey, the average ratio is 11.4:1. Public School Number One has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 92%. The 68% average for public schools in Hudson County is 24 points lower.
Among New Jersey public elementary schools, Public School Number One outscored 53%, which works out to a B- on the allk12 Grade.
In New Jersey, Public School Number One is one of the top 10% of schools on BeatsExpectations, with an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 30.9% compared with a predicted 15.8%.
In Hudson County, home to about 718,323 people, the median household earns about $91,795 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 49% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 11%. Public schools in Hudson County number 130, with about 86,216 students.
Public School Number One's closest public school neighbor is Lincoln Elementary School, about 0.3 miles away. The five-mile area around Public School Number One holds at least 8 other public schools. Public School Number One ranks 8th of 9 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 30.9% against a local average of 29.5%.
NCES assigns Public School Number One the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment was 758 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 815. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 14.8:1 to 13.0:1.
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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
Other schools in West New York School District
- Memorial High SchoolHigh · 2,345 students
- West New York Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,087 students
- Public School Number TwoElementary · 621 students
- Harry L BainElementary · 599 students
- Public School Number FiveElementary · 570 students
- Albio Sires Elementary SchoolElementary · 518 students
Other schools in WEST NEW YORK
- Memorial High SchoolHigh · 2,345 students
- West New York Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,087 students
- Public School Number TwoElementary · 621 students
- Harry L BainElementary · 599 students
- Public School Number FiveElementary · 570 students
- Albio Sires Elementary SchoolElementary · 518 students
Nearby schools
- Lincoln Elementary School0.3 mi · 1,193
- Albio Sires Elementary School0.3 mi · 518
- Anna L. Klein0.4 mi · 977
- Harry L Bain0.5 mi · 599
- Public School Number Three0.5 mi · 506
- Polk Street School0.5 mi · 213
Frequently asked questions
About Public School Number OneHow many students attend Public School Number One?
Public School Number One enrolls approximately 758 students in grades KG-06.
What grades does Public School Number One serve?
Public School Number One serves grades KG-06.
How many students per teacher at Public School Number One?
Approximately 13.0:1 students per teacher at Public School Number One.
How diverse is Public School Number One?
Public School Number One reports a student body of 2% White, 97% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 0% Two or more.
Who oversees Public School Number One?
Public School Number One is overseen by West New York School District in Hudson County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.