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Honest take: what's the hardest part about being a student at Rev. Dr. Ercel F. Webb School?
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Enrollment
613
Elementary
DISTRICT 601 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·JERSEY CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 340783002804
Rev. Dr. Ercel F. Webb School
264 VAN HORNE STREET, JERSEY CITY, NJ 07304 · (201) 915-6480 · Hudson County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL613 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 39% 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.
- B+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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
8.9:1
69 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.3:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
79%
484 students
DISTRICT 69% · 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 | 157 | 26% |
| Kindergarten | 79 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 87 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 62 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 82 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 74 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 72 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (79) is 10% larger than its 5th grade class (72).
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 74% · 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
41.4%
NJ avg 53.1% . +5.5pp since 2023
Math
34.2%
NJ avg 41.6% . +7.8pp 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 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 41.4% | 34.2% |
| 2023-24 | 35.9% | 26.4% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
29.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
22.9%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 29% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 23% 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 Rev. Dr. Ercel F. Webb School
Rev. Dr. Ercel F. Webb School's state test result (29.1% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rev. Dr. Ercel F. Webb School this school | 613 | 79.0% | 29.1% |
| Lindenwold School Five LINDENWOLD | 596 | 80.5% | 26.4% |
| Fairfield Township School BRIDGETON | 526 | 78.1% | 7.8% |
| Winfield Scott School No. 2 ELIZABETH | 630 | 82.4% | 16.0% |
| Leeds Avenue Elementary School PLEASANTVILLE | 570 | 84.7% | 19.4% |
| Field Street School CARNEYS POINT | 463 | 76.5% | 22.6% |
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 Rev. Dr. Ercel F. Webb School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Hudson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 29.1% | #976 of 1,290 | #65 of 84 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 34.2% | #890 of 1,319 ▲ 102 | #44 of 84 ▲ 15 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.4% | #894 of 1,319 ▲ 71 | #57 of 84 ▲ 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 613 | #208 of 1,562 | #38 of 88 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.9:1 | #124 of 1,390 | #5 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.6% | #394 of 1,392 | #36 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 79.0% | #225 of 1,481 | #27 of 88 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.2% | #201 of 798 | #21 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
613
-46 (-7%) vs 2020
-50% since 1990-91, when it was 1,226
Student : Teacher
8.9:1
was 11.2:1
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 | 613 | 68.6 | 8.9:1 | 79% (484) |
| 2023-24 | 629 | 73 | 8.6:1 | 69% (431) |
| 2022-23 | 741 | 66 | 11.2:1 | 57% (419) |
| 2020-21 | 659 | 59 | 11.2:1 | 60% (393) |
| 2017-18 | 749 | 63 | 11.9:1 | 79% (591) |
| 2015-16 | 752 | 64 | 11.8:1 | 83% (623) |
| 2010-11 | 635 | 43 | 14.8:1 | 80% (507) |
| 2000-01 | 903 | 77 | 11.7:1 | 85% (769) |
| 1990-91 | 1,226 | 84 | 14.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Rev. Dr. Ercel F. Webb School.
Since 2017-18: students down 18% (749 to 613); teachers up 9% (63 to 68.6).
About Rev. Dr. Ercel F. Webb School
Rev. Dr. Ercel F. Webb School is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as an elementary school in JERSEY CITY, New Jersey. The school enrolls 613 students, from pre-K through 5. An average school in this group (elementary schools in New Jersey) has about 405 students.
Jersey City Public Schools includes 39 schools. Together they enroll 24,151 students.
Rev. Dr. Ercel F. Webb School's enrollment has no majority group, and Hispanic students are the largest at 47%. The remaining students are 37% Black and 12% White. Rev. Dr. Ercel F. Webb School has a diversity index of 63%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Rev. Dr. Ercel F. Webb School counts 68.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 8.9 students for each one. Among elementary schools in New Jersey, the typical ratio is 11.4:1. About 79% of enrolled students meet the income rules for free or reduced-price lunch. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Hudson County is 68%.
allk12 grades Rev. Dr. Ercel F. Webb School a C+. The grade compares the school only with New Jersey public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
The model predicts 22.9% for a school in New Jersey with Rev. Dr. Ercel F. Webb School's free or reduced-price lunch share. Rev. Dr. Ercel F. Webb School posts 29.1%.
Across Hudson County, median household income is about $91,795, about 49% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 11%. Rev. Dr. Ercel F. Webb School is among the 130 public schools in Hudson County.
Nearest public school: Regional Day School, about 0.1 miles away. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. On average proficiency, Rev. Dr. Ercel F. Webb School is 5th of 8 nearby schools with test data.
Rev. Dr. Ercel F. Webb School falls in the City: Large locale category, used for schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The student count in 2024-25 was 613, 7% below the 659 of 2020-21. The school's ratio fell from 11.2:1 to 8.9:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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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 Jersey City Public Schools
- William L Dickinson High SchoolHigh · 1,786 students
- James J Ferris High SchoolHigh · 1,364 students
- Cornelia F. Bradford SchoolElementary · 1,082 students
- Joseph H. Brensinger SchoolElementary · 926 students
- Christa McAuliffe SchoolElementary · 906 students
- Franklin L. Williams SchoolMiddle · 906 students
Other schools in JERSEY CITY
- William L Dickinson High SchoolHigh · 1,786 students
- BelovED Community Charter SchoolCombined · 1,573 students
- James J Ferris High SchoolHigh · 1,364 students
- Empowerment Academy Charter SchoolCombined · 1,272 students
- Cornelia F. Bradford SchoolElementary · 1,082 students
- Joseph H. Brensinger SchoolElementary · 926 students
Nearby schools
- Regional Day School0.1 mi · 67
- BelovED Community Charter School0.3 mi · 1,573
- Lincoln High School0.5 mi · 767
- County Prep High School0.6 mi · 892
- Academy of Technology Design0.6 mi · 235
- Julia A. Barnes School0.6 mi · 433
Frequently asked questions
About Rev. Dr. Ercel F. Webb SchoolHow large is Rev. Dr. Ercel F. Webb School?
Rev. Dr. Ercel F. Webb School enrolls approximately 613 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Rev. Dr. Ercel F. Webb School serve?
Rev. Dr. Ercel F. Webb School serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Rev. Dr. Ercel F. Webb School?
Approximately 8.9:1 students per teacher at Rev. Dr. Ercel F. Webb School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Rev. Dr. Ercel F. Webb School?
At Rev. Dr. Ercel F. Webb School, the student body is approximately 12% White, 47% Hispanic, 37% Black, 2% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is Rev. Dr. Ercel F. Webb School public or private?
Rev. Dr. Ercel F. Webb School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Jersey City Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.