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Enrollment
583
Elementary
DISTRICT 612 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW PROVIDENCE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341131005600
Salt Brook School
40 MAPLE ST, NEW PROVIDENCE, NJ 07974 · (908) 464-7100 · Union County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL583 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 97% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New Jersey public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
11.6:1
50 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.8:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
1%
4 students
DISTRICT 2% · STATE 41%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 80 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 78 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 77 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 70 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 90 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 88 | 15% |
| Grade 6 | 100 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (80) is 20% smaller than its 6th grade class (100).
Student demographics
60%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 59% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within New Providence School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
89.1%
NJ avg 53.1% . +1.1pp since 2023
Math
85.5%
NJ avg 41.6% . +2.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 89 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 86 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 89.1% | 85.5% |
| 2023-24 | 88.0% | 82.7% |
% Meeting or Exceeding Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: NJSLA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NJ schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
84.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.8%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+18.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 84% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 66% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 19 points, placing it in New Jersey's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Salt Brook School
Salt Brook School's state test result (84.3% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salt Brook School this school | 583 | 0.7% | 84.3% |
| Allen W. Roberts School NEW PROVIDENCE | 641 | 1.7% | 80.2% |
| Chesterfield Township Elementary School Chesterfield | 675 | 5.6% | 51.0% |
| Lafayette Avenue School CHATHAM | 554 | 2.7% | 75.0% |
| Jefferson Elementary School Westfield | 467 | 0.6% | 74.7% |
| Cedar Hill School Basking Ridge | 568 | 3.5% | 75.4% |
Matched among New Jersey elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Salt Brook School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Union County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 84.3% | #17 of 1,290 | #1 of 92 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 85.5% | #31 of 1,319 ▲ 9 | #3 of 93 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 89.1% | #18 of 1,319 ▲ 2 | #3 of 93 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 583 | #254 of 1,562 | #31 of 108 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.6:1 | #790 of 1,390 | #36 of 103 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 60.1% | #491 of 1,392 | #30 of 103 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 0.7% | #1,472 of 1,481 | #103 of 105 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.3% | #411 of 798 | #20 of 58 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
583
-58 (-9%) vs 2020
+15% since 1990-91, when it was 509
Student : Teacher
11.6:1
was 12.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 583 | 50.1 | 11.6:1 | 1% (4) |
| 2023-24 | 592 | 52.2 | 11.3:1 | 1% (4) |
| 2022-23 | 607 | 49.2 | 12.3:1 | 1% (9) |
| 2020-21 | 641 | 50 | 12.8:1 | 1% (5) |
| 2017-18 | 650 | 44.3 | 14.7:1 | 1% (9) |
| 2015-16 | 657 | 44 | 14.9:1 | 3% (22) |
| 2010-11 | 612 | 36 | 17.0:1 | 4% (25) |
| 2000-01 | 564 | 41 | 13.8:1 | 0% (1) |
| 1990-91 | 509 | 30 | 17.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Salt Brook School.
Since 2017-18: students down 10% (650 to 583); teachers up 13% (44.3 to 50.1).
About Salt Brook School
Salt Brook School is a medium-sized elementary school in NEW PROVIDENCE, New Jersey, one of the schools in New Providence School District. It serves 583 students in kindergarten through 6. The average among elementary schools in New Jersey is roughly 405 students; this school is 44% larger than that.
New Providence School District has 4 schools; together they serve 2,264 students.
White students are the majority at Salt Brook School, with 56% of enrollment. It is also 26% Asian, 11% Hispanic, and 6% multiracial. Union County's residents are about 39% White, 17 points below the school's share. Salt Brook School's diversity index is 60%, against a US figure of 70%.
The school reported 50.1 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25 and a ratio of 11.6:1. That matches the 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey fairly closely. Eligible students account for 1% of enrollment in the free or reduced-price lunch program. Compared with the 52% average for public schools in Union County, the school's rate is lower.
Salt Brook School is graded A+ by allk12, scoring above 97% of New Jersey public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Salt Brook School ranks in the top 10% of New Jersey schools after adjusting test results for student poverty. Actual: 84.3%. Predicted: 65.8%. Difference: 18.6 points.
According to the American Community Survey, in Union County, the median household income is $103,202, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 39% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 7%. There are 180 public schools in Union County, enrolling about 99,046 students in all.
The shortest distance from Salt Brook School to another public school is about 0.7 miles, to Developmental Learning Center New Providence. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among the 7 closest schools with test data, this one included, Salt Brook School ranks 1st on average proficiency.
NCES assigns Salt Brook School the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment dropped 9% from its 2020-21 level of 641. The ratio of students to teachers went from 12.8:1 to 11.6:1 over the same years.
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Union County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
579,290
Census ACS
Median income
$103,202
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
180
99,046 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in New Providence School District
- New Providence High SchoolHigh · 644 students
- Allen W. Roberts SchoolElementary · 641 students
- New Providence Middle SchoolMiddle · 396 students
Other schools in NEW PROVIDENCE
- New Providence High SchoolHigh · 644 students
- Allen W. Roberts SchoolElementary · 641 students
- New Providence Middle SchoolMiddle · 396 students
- Developmental Learning Center New ProvidenceCombined · 91 students
Nearby schools
- Developmental Learning Center New Providence0.7 mi · 91
- Franklin Elementary School0.7 mi · 369
- Primary Center at Wilson0.8 mi · 203
- New Providence Middle School1.1 mi · 396
- New Providence High School1.2 mi · 644
- Summit High School1.3 mi · 1,198
Frequently asked questions
About Salt Brook SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Salt Brook School?
Salt Brook School enrolls approximately 583 students in grades KG-06.
What grades does Salt Brook School serve?
Salt Brook School serves grades KG-06.
How many teachers does Salt Brook School have?
Salt Brook School employs 50 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.6:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Salt Brook School?
At Salt Brook School, the student body is approximately 56% White, 11% Hispanic, 1% Black, 26% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is Salt Brook School public or private?
Salt Brook School is a public K-12 school, overseen by New Providence School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.