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Enrollment
706
Elementary
DISTRICT 638 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEWARK PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341134002334
Quitman Street School
21 QUITMAN ST, NEWARK, NJ 07103 · (973) 733-6947 · Essex County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL706 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 2% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
16.4:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.0:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
84%
596 students
DISTRICT 80% · 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 | 124 | 18% |
| Kindergarten | 92 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 76 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 69 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 53 | 8% |
| Grade 4 | 62 | 9% |
| Grade 5 | 55 | 8% |
| Grade 6 | 52 | 7% |
| Grade 7 | 57 | 8% |
| Grade 8 | 66 | 9% |
This year's kindergarten class (92) is 39% larger than its 8th grade class (66).
Student demographics
54%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 53% · 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
18.4%
NJ avg 53.1% . +3.1pp since 2023
Math
5.5%
NJ avg 41.6% . +0.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 18 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 6 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 have held steady.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 18.4% | 5.5% |
| 2023-24 | 15.3% | 5.0% |
% 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
9.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
20.0%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 10% 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 Quitman Street School
Quitman Street School's state test result (9.7% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quitman Street School this school | 706 | 84.4% | 9.7% |
| Camden Street Elementary School NEWARK | 685 | 86.0% | 10.4% |
| Peshine Avenue School NEWARK | 635 | 79.5% | 14.2% |
| Whitney M. Young Jr. School JERSEY CITY | 623 | 86.7% | 6.5% |
| Pennsylvania Ave School Atlantic City | 566 | 85.7% | 15.7% |
| Jersey City Community Charter School JERSEY CITY | 561 | 82.5% | 28.5% |
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 Quitman Street School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Essex County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 9.7% | #1,255 of 1,290 | #130 of 131 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 5.5% | #1,307 of 1,319 ▼ 4 | #141 of 141 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 18.4% | #1,243 of 1,319 ▲ 12 | #135 of 141 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 706 | #108 of 1,562 | #23 of 162 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.4:1 | #1,352 of 1,390 | #123 of 140 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.3% | #684 of 1,392 | #46 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 84.4% | #140 of 1,481 | #33 of 142 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +22.6% | #89 of 545 | #12 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
706
+160 (+29%) vs 2020
-21% since 1990-91, when it was 891
Student : Teacher
16.4:1
was 10.3:1
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 | 706 | 43 | 16.4:1 | 84% (596) |
| 2023-24 | 738 | 54 | 13.7:1 | 74% (548) |
| 2022-23 | 710 | 49 | 14.5:1 | 90% (636) |
| 2020-21 | 546 | 53 | 10.3:1 | 82% (450) |
| 2017-18 | 576 | 42 | 13.7:1 | 88% (506) |
| 2015-16 | 620 | 47 | 13.2:1 | 91% (562) |
| 2010-11 | 419 | 33 | 12.7:1 | 91% (382) |
| 2000-01 | 445 | 47 | 9.5:1 | 96% (429) |
| 1990-91 | 891 | 44 | 20.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Quitman Street School.
Since 2017-18: students up 23% (576 to 706); teachers up 2% (42 to 43).
About Quitman Street School
The public elementary school Quitman Street School is located in NEWARK, New Jersey. Its enrollment is 706 students, spread over pre-K through 8. On average, elementary schools in New Jersey enroll around 405, and this school is 74% above that mark.
Newark Public School District is responsible for 65 schools, Quitman Street School included, with 41,502 students in all.
The student body at Quitman Street School is 54% Black. The school is also 40% Hispanic, 2% multiracial, and 2% White. The Black share of the county population is lower, at 36%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 54%.
Quitman Street School lists 43 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 16.4 students per teacher. Across elementary schools in New Jersey, the average ratio is 11.4:1. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 84% of the student body. The gap from the 54% average for public schools in Essex County is 30 points.
On the allk12 Grade, Quitman Street School lands at F, ahead of 2% of New Jersey public elementary schools.
Quitman Street School scores 9.7% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 20.0%.
In Essex County, home to about 863,002 people, the median household earns about $80,789 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 39% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 11%. Quitman Street School shares Essex County with 248 other public schools.
American History High School, less than a tenth of a mile 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, Quitman Street School ranks 8th on average proficiency.
Federal data place Quitman Street School in the City: Large locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, Quitman Street School had a net gain of 160 students, or 29%. The school's ratio increased from 10.3:1 to 16.4:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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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
Related schools
Other schools in Newark Public School District
- East Side High SchoolHigh · 2,046 students
- Barringer High SchoolHigh · 1,894 students
- Ann Street SchoolElementary · 1,294 students
- Lafayette Street SchoolElementary · 1,213 students
- First Avenue SchoolElementary · 1,084 students
- Early Childhood School - NorthElementary · 1,076 students
Other schools in NEWARK
- North Star Academy Charter SchoolCombined · 6,714 students
- TEAM Academy Charter SchoolCombined · 6,406 students
- Great Oaks Legacy Charter SchoolCombined · 2,169 students
- East Side High SchoolHigh · 2,046 students
- Barringer High SchoolHigh · 1,894 students
- Marion P. Thomas Charter SchoolCombined · 1,410 students
Nearby schools
- American History High School0.1 mi · 386
- Arts High School0.3 mi · 611
- Newark Vocational High School0.3 mi · 591
- Louise A. Spencer Elementary School0.4 mi · 774
- Central High School0.4 mi · 1,051
- New Horizons Community Charter School0.5 mi · 370
Frequently asked questions
About Quitman Street SchoolHow many students attend Quitman Street School?
Quitman Street School enrolls approximately 706 students in grades PK-08.
What age range does Quitman Street School serve?
Quitman Street School serves students from grade PK through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Quitman Street School?
Approximately 16.4:1 students per teacher at Quitman Street School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Quitman Street School?
At Quitman Street School, the student body is approximately 2% White, 40% Hispanic, 54% Black, 0% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is Quitman Street School public or private?
Quitman Street School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Newark Public School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.