Seth Boyden Elementary Demonstration School

As a mid-sized K-5 school in MAPLEWOOD, New Jersey, Seth Boyden Elementary Demonstration School caters to 423 students from grades K through 5, operated by South Orange-Maplewood School District.

Seth Boyden Elementary Demonstration School is one of 10 schools operated by South Orange-Maplewood School District, a district that caters to 6,728 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Seth Boyden Elementary Demonstration School reports that 43% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 32% Black, 13% Hispanic, 11% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 30% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting Seth Boyden Elementary Demonstration School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 23% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Essex County (around 54%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Seth Boyden Elementary Demonstration School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 53.7%; this one delivers 46.9%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Essex County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $80,789 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Essex County runs 249 public schools (combined enrollment of about 145,473 students), of which Seth Boyden Elementary Demonstration School is one.

Florence Avenue Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Seth Boyden Elementary Demonstration School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 35.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Seth Boyden Elementary Demonstration School has ticked down 22%, going from 545 students in 2018 to 423 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share contracted from 59% to 32%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 11.3:1 in 2018 to 9.2:1 today.

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