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How has Texas Avenue School changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
496
Elementary
DISTRICT 461 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ATLANTIC CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340096000018
Texas Avenue School
2523 Arctic Avenue, Atlantic City, NJ 08401 · (609) 343-7350 · Atlantic County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL496 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 29% 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
10.6:1
47 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.6:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
91%
453 students
DISTRICT 89% · 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 | 45 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 51 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 49 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 51 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 48 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 59 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 64 | 13% |
| Grade 7 | 60 | 12% |
| Grade 8 | 69 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (45) is 35% smaller than its 8th grade class (69).
Student demographics
50%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 65% · 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
Students here typically continue to
Texas Avenue School→Atlantic City High School
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Atlantic City School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
27.9%
NJ avg 53.1% . -0.8pp since 2023
Math
15.7%
NJ avg 41.6% . -2.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 28 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 16 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 27.9% | 15.7% |
| 2023-24 | 28.7% | 17.9% |
% 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
20.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
16.2%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 21% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 16% 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 Texas Avenue School
Texas Avenue School's state test result (20.9% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas Avenue School this school | 496 | 91.3% | 20.9% |
| Paul Robeson Charter School for the Humanities TRENTON | 545 | 94.9% | 31.2% |
| Richmond Avenue School Atlantic City | 609 | 87.4% | 51.1% |
| Sovereign Avenue School Atlantic City | 717 | 90.8% | 29.9% |
| Brighton Avenue School Atlantic City | 302 | 92.1% | 28.5% |
| School 27 PATERSON | 641 | 80.8% | 24.1% |
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 Texas Avenue School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Atlantic County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 20.9% | #1,121 of 1,290 | #30 of 38 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 15.7% | #1,206 of 1,319 ▼ 75 | #32 of 38 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 27.9% | #1,140 of 1,319 ▼ 58 | #32 of 38 ▼ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 496 | #417 of 1,562 | #18 of 45 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.6:1 | #495 of 1,390 | #27 of 38 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 49.8% | #814 of 1,392 | #29 of 38 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 91.3% | #46 of 1,481 | #4 of 43 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.4% | #370 of 798 | #13 of 27 |
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
496
-3 (-1%) vs 2020
+14% since 1990-91, when it was 437
Student : Teacher
10.6:1
was 10.8:1
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 | 496 | 47 | 10.6:1 | 91% (453) |
| 2023-24 | 499 | 47.4 | 10.5:1 | 96% (478) |
| 2022-23 | 498 | 45.4 | 11.0:1 | 96% (476) |
| 2020-21 | 499 | 46 | 10.8:1 | 94% (470) |
| 2017-18 | 560 | 46.6 | 12.0:1 | 99% (557) |
| 2015-16 | 563 | 49 | 11.5:1 | 83% (470) |
| 2010-11 | 635 | 57 | 11.1:1 | 90% (569) |
| 2000-01 | 403 | 34 | 11.8:1 | 92% (372) |
| 1990-91 | 437 | 35 | 12.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Texas Avenue School.
Since 2017-18: students down 11% (560 to 496); teachers up 1% (46.6 to 47).
About Texas Avenue School
This page covers Texas Avenue School, a mid-sized elementary school in Atlantic City, New Jersey. It reports enrollment of 496 students in kindergarten through 8. Across elementary schools in New Jersey, the average enrollment is about 405.
Atlantic City School District runs Texas Avenue School along with 10 other schools, enrolling 6,339 students in total.
More than half of enrollment at Texas Avenue School is Hispanic: 66%. The next largest groups are 26% Asian and 7% Black. The school's Hispanic share is 45 points above the 20% share among Atlantic County residents. The diversity index for Texas Avenue School is 50%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
For every teacher at Texas Avenue School, there are about 10.6 students; the school has 47 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in New Jersey, 11.4:1, is higher. There are 453 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 91% of enrollment. Among public schools in Atlantic County, the average eligibility rate is 59%.
Among New Jersey public elementary schools, Texas Avenue School outscored 29%, which works out to a C on the allk12 Grade.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Texas Avenue School is +4.8 points: 20.9% actual, 16.2% predicted.
The school is in Atlantic County, where median household income comes to about $78,050, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Atlantic County counts 77 public schools with about 41,964 students.
Brighton Avenue School is about 0.3 miles from Texas Avenue School, the shortest distance to any other public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of the 8 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Texas Avenue School is 5th on average proficiency.
The NCES locale for Texas Avenue School is City: Small, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Texas Avenue School had 499 students in 2020-21 and 496 in 2024-25, nearly the same.
This page collects posts and questions about Texas Avenue School, such as athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Atlantic County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
276,270
Census ACS
Median income
$78,050
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
32%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
77
41,964 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Atlantic City School District
- Atlantic City High SchoolHigh · 1,731 students
- Sovereign Avenue SchoolElementary · 717 students
- Richmond Avenue SchoolElementary · 609 students
- Pennsylvania Ave SchoolElementary · 566 students
- New York Avenue SchoolElementary · 550 students
- Dr Martin Luther King Jr School ComplexElementary · 544 students
Other schools in Atlantic City
- Atlantic City High SchoolHigh · 1,731 students
- Sovereign Avenue SchoolElementary · 717 students
- Richmond Avenue SchoolElementary · 609 students
- Pennsylvania Ave SchoolElementary · 566 students
- New York Avenue SchoolElementary · 550 students
- Dr Martin Luther King Jr School ComplexElementary · 544 students
Nearby schools
- Brighton Avenue School0.3 mi · 302
- Sovereign Avenue School0.5 mi · 717
- Dr Martin Luther King Jr School Complex0.6 mi · 544
- New York Avenue School0.9 mi · 550
- Richmond Avenue School1.0 mi · 609
- Chelsea Heights School1.1 mi · 267
Frequently asked questions
About Texas Avenue SchoolHow large is Texas Avenue School?
Texas Avenue School enrolls approximately 496 students in grades KG-08.
What grades does Texas Avenue School serve?
Texas Avenue School serves grades KG-08.
How many students per teacher at Texas Avenue School?
Approximately 10.6:1 students per teacher at Texas Avenue School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Texas Avenue School?
At Texas Avenue School, the student body is approximately 1% White, 66% Hispanic, 7% Black, 26% Asian, 0% Two or more.
Is Texas Avenue School public or private?
Texas Avenue School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Atlantic City School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.