Robert N. Wilentz Elementary School

Robert N. Wilentz Elementary School is an elementary campus of sizable scale in PERTH AMBOY, New Jersey, operated by Perth Amboy Public School District, educateing 616 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 405 students each, so Robert N. Wilentz Elementary School sits 52% bigger than that benchmark.

Perth Amboy Public School District runs 12 schools in total, collectively educating 9,845 students. Robert N. Wilentz Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Robert N. Wilentz Elementary School reports that 95% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 5% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

Looking at school resources, Robert N. Wilentz Elementary School logs 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting Robert N. Wilentz Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Around 80% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Middlesex County (around 42%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Robert N. Wilentz Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 22.4%; this one delivers 21.1%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Middlesex County indicate median household income runs about $111,549, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Robert N. Wilentz Elementary School is one of 214 public schools in Middlesex County (combined enrollment of about 129,255 students).

Nearest neighbor: William C. McGinnis Middle School, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Robert N. Wilentz Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Robert N. Wilentz Elementary School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 22.6%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 27%: 845 students in 2018 compared to 616 in 2025.

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