TEAM Academy Charter School

TEAM Academy Charter School operates as a heavily attended unified-grade school in NEWARK, New Jersey, overseen by TEAM Academy Charter School. Current enrollment sits at 6,406 students spanning grades K through 12. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 934 students each, so TEAM Academy Charter School sits 586% above that benchmark.

TEAM Academy Charter School is a school of TEAM Academy Charter School, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

For racial and ethnic makeup, TEAM Academy Charter School logs that the largest single group is Black, at 76% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 17% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Essex County as a whole is about 36% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, TEAM Academy Charter School lists 290 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 22.1:1. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 93% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 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 above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, TEAM Academy Charter School is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 15.3%; this one delivers 30.1%, a residual of +14.8 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Essex County indicate median household earnings sit near $80,789, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Essex County runs 249 public schools (combined enrollment of about 145,473 students), of which TEAM Academy Charter School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Peshine Avenue School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around TEAM Academy Charter School. On composite proficiency, TEAM Academy Charter School comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 17.2%.

TEAM Academy Charter School operates from a metropolitan location. TEAM Academy Charter School operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Five-year trend. TEAM Academy Charter School's enrollment has increased 58% since 2018, when it stood at 4,059 (now 6,406). The Black share of enrollment contracted from 91% to 76% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 20.2:1 in 2018 to 22.1:1 today.

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