Rose M. Lopez Elementary School

Located at 435 Seaman Avenue, in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, Rose M. Lopez Elementary School is an expansive elementary school that teaches 793 students (grades K through 3), operated by Perth Amboy Public School District. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 405 students each, so Rose M. Lopez Elementary School sits 96% bigger than that benchmark.

Perth Amboy Public School District comprises 12 schools with combined enrollment of 9,845 students; Rose M. Lopez Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Rose M. Lopez Elementary School records that nearly all students (96%) are Hispanic. The remainder is composed of 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 24% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Rose M. Lopez Elementary School has 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. About 75% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Middlesex County's rate of about 42%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Rose M. Lopez Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 25.0%; this one delivers 29.5%.

In the area at large, Middlesex County reports that median household earnings sit near $111,549, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Middlesex County's 214 public schools (combined enrollment of about 129,255 students), Rose M. Lopez Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Herbert N. Richardson 21st Century School, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Rose M. Lopez Elementary School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Rose M. Lopez Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 20.0%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

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