Roseville Community Charter School

Roseville Community Charter School, a cozy elementary campus in NEWARK, New Jersey, run under Roseville Community Charter School, hosts 285 students, covering grades K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 30% leaner than the state mean of about 405.

Operationally, Roseville Community Charter School answers to Roseville Community Charter School, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

On demographics, Roseville Community Charter School lists that the largest single group is Black at 51%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 47% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 36%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.9:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 91% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Essex County (around 54%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Roseville Community Charter School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 16.6%, the actual is 30.0%, a residual of +13.4 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Essex County indicate the typical household earns roughly $80,789 per year, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Essex County runs 249 public schools (combined enrollment of about 145,473 students), of which Roseville Community Charter School is one.

Essex County Donald M. Payne Sr. School of Technology is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Roseville Community Charter School. On composite proficiency, Roseville Community Charter School comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 24.9%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area. Roseville Community Charter School operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 12%: 325 students in 2018 compared to 285 in 2025.

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