Robert Waters Elementary School

Set in UNION CITY, New Jersey, Robert Waters Elementary School is a heavily attended K-5 school, run under Union City School District. It instructs 983 students across grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 143% bigger than the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 405 students.

Robert Waters Elementary School is one of 14 schools operated by Union City School District, a district that educates 11,519 students overall.

Demographically, Robert Waters Elementary School lists that nearly all students (97%) are Hispanic. By comparison, Hudson County as a whole is about 41% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Robert Waters Elementary School has 75 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.1:1. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 84% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Hudson County runs at roughly 68%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Robert Waters Elementary School is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 20.3%; this one delivers 35.5%, a residual of +15.3 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Hudson County indicate the typical household earns roughly $91,795 per year, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Hudson County's 130 public schools (combined enrollment of about 86,216 students), Robert Waters Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Union City High School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Robert Waters Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Robert Waters Elementary School comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 41.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Robert Waters Elementary School has decreased 14%, going from 1,137 students in 2018 to 983 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 in 2025.

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