SALOME URENA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

SALOME URENA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary-level community of medium-sized scale in Newark, New Jersey, part of Newark Public School District, instructing 516 students in grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 27% bigger than the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 405 students.

SALOME URENA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 65 schools operated by Newark Public School District, a district that instructs 41,502 students overall.

Demographically, SALOME URENA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that 85% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 7% Black, 3% Native American, 2% White. By comparison, Essex County as a whole is about 25% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting SALOME URENA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. About 87% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Essex County (around 54%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, SALOME URENA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 18.5%, the actual is 20.1%, a residual of +1.5 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Essex County indicate the typical household earns roughly $80,789 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. SALOME URENA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 249 public schools in Essex County (combined enrollment of about 145,473 students).

The closest other public school is First Avenue School, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, SALOME URENA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 33.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 163%: 196 students in 2018 compared to 516 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 72% to 85% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 9.6:1 in 2018 to 17.2:1 in 2025.

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