Enrollment
400
Elementary
DISTRICT 588 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·UNION CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341638000143
Sara M. Gilmore Academy
1700 Kerrigan Avenue, Union City, NJ 07087 · (201) 348-5851 · Hudson County
GRADES 01–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL400 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 98% 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.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
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
14.3:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.2:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
55%
219 students
DISTRICT 78% · STATE 41%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 1 | 40 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 46 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 47 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 49 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 47 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 58 | 14% |
| Grade 7 | 59 | 15% |
| Grade 8 | 54 | 14% |
This year's 1st grade class (40) is 26% smaller than its 8th grade class (54).
Student demographics
40%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 10% · 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
Based on grade levels within Union City School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
96.3%
NJ avg 53.1% . +4.8pp since 2023
Math
79.9%
NJ avg 41.6% . +5.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 96 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 80 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 96.3% | 79.9% |
| 2023-24 | 91.5% | 74.8% |
% 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
78.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
36.2%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+42.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 79% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 36% 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 43 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 Sara M. Gilmore Academy
Sara M. Gilmore Academy's state test result (78.8% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sara M. Gilmore Academy this school | 400 | 54.8% | 78.8% |
| Marie V. Duffy Elementary School Wharton | 434 | 54.8% | 38.2% |
| Belleville PS7 BELLEVILLE | 425 | 58.6% | 28.7% |
| Lincoln Elementary School RIDGEFIELD PARK | 346 | 54.3% | 49.1% |
| Lillian M. Steen BOGOTA | 347 | 59.1% | 45.2% |
| Roosevelt Elementary School RIDGEFIELD PARK | 334 | 48.8% | 46.9% |
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 Sara M. Gilmore Academy ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Hudson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 78.8% | #44 of 1,290 | #3 of 84 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 79.9% | #90 of 1,319 ▲ 34 | #3 of 84 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 96.3% | #2 of 1,319 ▲ 7 | #1 of 84 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 400 | #702 of 1,562 | #66 of 88 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.3:1 | #1,267 of 1,390 | #77 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 40.1% | #1,051 of 1,392 | #57 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 54.8% | #526 of 1,481 | #70 of 88 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +0.8% | #517 of 545 | #22 of 24 |
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
400
+17 (+4%) vs 2020
+12% since 2000-01, when it was 356
Student : Teacher
14.3:1
was 16.0:1
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 | 400 | 28 | 14.3:1 | 55% (219) |
| 2023-24 | 394 | 26 | 15.2:1 | 53% (207) |
| 2022-23 | 390 | 25 | 15.6:1 | 57% (224) |
| 2020-21 | 383 | 24 | 16.0:1 | 46% (177) |
| 2017-18 | 397 | 28 | 14.2:1 | 53% (211) |
| 2015-16 | 365 | 26 | 14.0:1 | 61% (221) |
| 2010-11 | 346 | 21 | 16.5:1 | 73% (253) |
| 2000-01 | 356 | 26 | 13.7:1 | 83% (294) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sara M. Gilmore Academy.
Since 2017-18: students up 1% (397 to 400); teachers unchanged (28 to 28).
About Sara M. Gilmore Academy
Sara M. Gilmore Academy is a medium-sized elementary school with an address in Union City, New Jersey. The school reports 400 students in grades 1 through 8.
Union City School District, which runs Sara M. Gilmore Academy, has 14 schools and 11,519 students.
Sara M. Gilmore Academy's enrollment is 76% Hispanic. Enrollment also includes 13% White, 9% Asian, and 3% Black. Among people living in Hudson County, the Hispanic share is about 41%. Sara M. Gilmore Academy has a diversity index of 40%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
The school employs the equivalent of 28 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 14.3:1. Among elementary schools in New Jersey, the typical ratio is 11.4:1. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 55%. For comparison, public schools in Hudson County average 68%.
allk12 grades Sara M. Gilmore Academy an A+. The grade compares the school only with New Jersey public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
The BeatsExpectations model predicts 36.2% for Sara M. Gilmore Academy, given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The actual figure is 78.8%. The 42.6-point gap ranks in the top 10% of New Jersey schools.
Hudson County has about 718,323 residents, and median household income is about $91,795, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 49%, and roughly 11% of residents are in poverty. The public schools of Hudson County number 130 and enroll about 86,216.
The closest other public school is Jose Marti STEM Academy, about 0.2 miles away. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. In a group of 8 nearby schools with scores, Sara M. Gilmore Academy ranks 1st on average proficiency.
In the federal locale system, Sara M. Gilmore Academy is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal counts put enrollment at 383 in 2020-21 and 400 in 2024-25, a 4% gain. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 16.0:1; by 2024-25 it was 14.3:1.
Discussions about Sara M. Gilmore Academy may include school safety, transportation, and start times. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Hudson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
718,323
Census ACS
Median income
$91,795
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
49%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
130
86,216 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Union City School District
- Union City High SchoolHigh · 3,147 students
- Emerson Middle SchoolMiddle · 999 students
- Robert Waters Elementary SchoolElementary · 983 students
- Theodore Roosevelt Elementary SchoolElementary · 871 students
- Union Hill Middle SchoolMiddle · 865 students
- George Washington Elementary SchoolElementary · 776 students
Other schools in Union City
- Union City High SchoolHigh · 3,147 students
- Emerson Middle SchoolMiddle · 999 students
- Robert Waters Elementary SchoolElementary · 983 students
- Theodore Roosevelt Elementary SchoolElementary · 871 students
- Union Hill Middle SchoolMiddle · 865 students
- George Washington Elementary SchoolElementary · 776 students
Nearby schools
- Jose Marti STEM Academy0.2 mi · 625
- Veterans' Memorial Elementary School0.2 mi · 502
- John F Kennedy Elementary School0.3 mi · 576
- Eugenio Maria de Hostos Center for Early Childhood Education0.3 mi · 300
- Colin Powell Elementary School0.4 mi · 692
- Emerson Middle School0.4 mi · 999
Frequently asked questions
About Sara M. Gilmore AcademyWhat is the total enrollment at Sara M. Gilmore Academy?
Sara M. Gilmore Academy enrolls approximately 400 students in grades 01-08.
Is Sara M. Gilmore Academy an elementary, middle, or high school?
Sara M. Gilmore Academy is an elementary school covering grades 01-08.
How many students per teacher at Sara M. Gilmore Academy?
Approximately 14.3:1 students per teacher at Sara M. Gilmore Academy.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Sara M. Gilmore Academy?
At Sara M. Gilmore Academy, the student body is approximately 13% White, 76% Hispanic, 3% Black, 9% Asian.
What district is Sara M. Gilmore Academy in?
Sara M. Gilmore Academy is part of Union City School District.
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