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Enrollment
591
Elementary
DISTRICT 639 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ELIZABETH PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 340459000207
Sonia Sotomayor School No 25
525 FIRST AVENUE, ELIZABETH, NJ 07206 · (908) 436-5930 · Union County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL591 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 32% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
12.8:1
46 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.5:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
91%
535 students
DISTRICT 83% · 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 | 78 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 83 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 58 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 58 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 69 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 60 | 10% |
| Grade 6 | 60 | 10% |
| Grade 7 | 56 | 9% |
| Grade 8 | 69 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (78) is 13% larger than its 8th grade class (69).
Student demographics
17%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 38% · 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
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
34.8%
NJ avg 53.1% . +5.5pp since 2023
Math
21.6%
NJ avg 41.6% . +4.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 35 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 22 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 4 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 34.8% | 21.6% |
| 2023-24 | 29.3% | 17.5% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
22.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
16.6%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 22% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 17% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New Jersey's top nor bottom 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 Sonia Sotomayor School No 25
Sonia Sotomayor School No 25's state test result (22.2% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sonia Sotomayor School No 25 this school | 591 | 90.5% | 22.2% |
| Washington Community School PLAINFIELD | 557 | 87.6% | 14.4% |
| Maria Varisco Rogers Charter School NEWARK | 572 | 88.5% | 39.9% |
| Paul Robeson Community School for the Arts NEW BRUNSWICK | 624 | 93.4% | 21.5% |
| Indian Ave School BRIDGETON | 627 | 92.3% | 14.7% |
| Spruce Street Elementary School LAKEWOOD | 554 | 92.6% | N/A |
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 Sonia Sotomayor School No 25 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Union County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 22.2% | #1,094 of 1,290 | #75 of 92 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 21.6% | #1,126 of 1,319 ▲ 15 | #72 of 93 ▲ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 34.8% | #1,029 of 1,319 ▲ 46 | #69 of 93 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 591 | #241 of 1,562 | #30 of 108 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.8:1 | #1,058 of 1,390 | #70 of 103 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 17.3% | #1,327 of 1,392 | #102 of 103 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 90.5% | #54 of 1,481 | #2 of 105 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.3% | #373 of 798 | #15 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
591
+12 (+2%) vs 2020
+15% since 2000-01, when it was 513
Student : Teacher
12.8:1
was 12.3:1
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 | 591 | 46 | 12.8:1 | 91% (535) |
| 2023-24 | 595 | 46.5 | 12.8:1 | 90% (538) |
| 2022-23 | 604 | 45 | 13.4:1 | 88% (532) |
| 2020-21 | 579 | 47 | 12.3:1 | 85% (495) |
| 2017-18 | 666 | 47.5 | 14.0:1 | 89% (595) |
| 2015-16 | 653 | 40 | 16.3:1 | 97% (631) |
| 2010-11 | 556 | 35 | 15.9:1 | 96% (535) |
| 2000-01 | 513 | 24 | 21.4:1 | 80% (410) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sonia Sotomayor School No 25.
Since 2017-18: students down 11% (666 to 591); teachers down 3% (47.5 to 46).
About Sonia Sotomayor School No 25
This page covers Sonia Sotomayor School No 25, a mid-sized elementary school in ELIZABETH, New Jersey. It has an enrollment of 591 students in kindergarten through 8. On average, elementary schools in New Jersey enroll around 405, and this school is 46% larger than that mark.
Sonia Sotomayor School No 25 is one school in Elizabeth Public Schools, a system of 37 schools with 27,580 students.
Hispanic students are 91% of those enrolled at Sonia Sotomayor School No 25. The rest of enrollment is 7% Black. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Union County's population at about 35%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 17, compared with 70 nationally.
Sonia Sotomayor School No 25 has 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 12.8:1. The school's 12.8:1 compares with an average of 11.4:1 for elementary schools in New Jersey. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 91%. The 52% average for public schools in Union County is 39 points lower.
Sonia Sotomayor School No 25 earns a C on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 32% of New Jersey public elementary schools.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 16.6% for Sonia Sotomayor School No 25. The school posts 22.2%, 5.6 points above the prediction.
In Union County, where the school is located, the median household earns about $103,202 a year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Union County number 180, with about 99,046 students.
The closest school to Sonia Sotomayor School No 25 is Terence C. Reilly School No 7, located about 0.1 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Sonia Sotomayor School No 25. Its average proficiency rate of 22.2% is below the 27.6% average for nearby schools.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment at Sonia Sotomayor School No 25 was 579 in 2020-21 and 591 in 2024-25, a change of less than 3%.
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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
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- William F. Halloran School No.22Middle · 1,140 students
- Terence C. Reilly School No 7Middle · 1,130 students
Other schools in ELIZABETH
- John E. Dwyer Technology AcademyHigh · 1,348 students
- Admiral William F. Halsey Jr. Health & Public Safety AcademyHigh · 1,272 students
- Elizabeth High School - Frank J Cicarell AcademyHigh · 1,268 students
- Thomas Jefferson Arts AcademyHigh · 1,144 students
- William F. Halloran School No.22Middle · 1,140 students
- Terence C. Reilly School No 7Middle · 1,130 students
Nearby schools
- Terence C. Reilly School No 70.1 mi · 1,130
- Christopher Columbus School No. 150.2 mi · 672
- Nicholas S. Lacorte-Peterstown School No. 30.3 mi · 765
- John Marshal School No. 200.5 mi · 452
- Jerome Dunn Academy No 90.5 mi · 856
- George Washington Academy School No. 10.5 mi · 595
Frequently asked questions
About Sonia Sotomayor School No 25How many students attend Sonia Sotomayor School No 25?
Sonia Sotomayor School No 25 enrolls approximately 591 students in grades KG-08.
Is Sonia Sotomayor School No 25 an elementary, middle, or high school?
Sonia Sotomayor School No 25 is an elementary school covering grades KG-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Sonia Sotomayor School No 25?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Sonia Sotomayor School No 25 is approximately 12.8:1 (46 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Sonia Sotomayor School No 25?
Student demographics at Sonia Sotomayor School No 25 are roughly 2% White, 91% Hispanic, 7% Black, 1% Asian.
Who oversees Sonia Sotomayor School No 25?
Sonia Sotomayor School No 25 is overseen by Elizabeth Public Schools in Union County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.