Speedway Avenue School

Speedway Avenue School operates as a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community in NEWARK, New Jersey, one of the schools within Newark Public School District. Current enrollment sits at 525 students spanning grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 30% above the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 405 students.

Within Newark Public School District, which oversees 65 schools and 41,502 students, Speedway Avenue School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Speedway Avenue School records that Black students make up the majority at 78%. Beyond that, the school logs 19% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 36% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Speedway Avenue School has 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.0:1. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 89% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Essex County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Speedway Avenue School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 17.4%, the actual is 18.4%, a residual of +1.0 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Essex County put median household income runs about $80,789, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Essex County's 249 public schools (combined enrollment of about 145,473 students), Speedway Avenue School is one campus in the mix.

Fourteenth Avenue School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Speedway Avenue School comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 21.3%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Speedway Avenue School has shrank 23%, going from 685 students in 2018 to 525 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 91% to 78% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 in 2025.

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