Robert Gordon Elementary School

Robert Gordon Elementary School is one of the cozy elementary schools in ROSELLE PARK, New Jersey, operated by Roselle Park Public School District, with 325 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Roselle Park Public School District comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 2,007 students; Robert Gordon Elementary School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Robert Gordon Elementary School shows that 57% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 29% White, 8% Black, 4% Asian. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 35%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 11.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 50% of students at Robert Gordon Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Robert Gordon Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 39.0%; this one delivers 33.0%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Union County) logs that median household earnings sit near $103,202, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Robert Gordon Elementary School is one of 180 public schools in Union County (combined enrollment of about 99,046 students).

Nearest neighbor: Roselle Park Middle School, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Robert Gordon Elementary School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 35.4%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Robert Gordon Elementary School has rose 19%, going from 273 students in 2018 to 325 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 48% to 57% across the same window. Class-load math has loosened: from 8.8:1 in 2018 to 11.2:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Robert Gordon Elementary School community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. Members of the school community can share what they know.