Enrollment
276
Elementary
DISTRICT 354 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SPRINGFIELD PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341563005704
Thelma L. Sandmeier Elementary School
666 South Springfield Ave., Springfield, NJ 07081 · (973) 376-1025 · Union County
GRADES 03–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL276 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 52% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
12.0:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.7:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
14%
38 students
DISTRICT 16% · STATE 41%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 29 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 43 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 48 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 64 | 23% |
| Grade 5 | 92 | 33% |
This year's kindergarten class (43) is 53% smaller than its 5th grade class (92).
Student demographics
65%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
Thelma L. Sandmeier Elementary School→Florence M. Gaudineer Middle School→Jonathan Dayton High School
Based on grade levels within Springfield Public School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
63.4%
NJ avg 53.1% . +5.1pp since 2023
Math
60.7%
NJ avg 41.6% . +3.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 63 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 61 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 | 63.4% | 60.7% |
| 2023-24 | 58.3% | 56.9% |
% 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
55.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.6%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% 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 Thelma L. Sandmeier Elementary School
Thelma L. Sandmeier Elementary School's state test result (55.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thelma L. Sandmeier Elementary School this school | 276 | 13.8% | 55.2% |
| James Caldwell Elementary School Springfield | 276 | 17.0% | 56.3% |
| Mansfield Township Elementary School COLUMBUS | 303 | 11.9% | 65.5% |
| Countryside Elementary School MOUNT LAUREL | 293 | 16.7% | 50.3% |
| Margaret C. Clifford School Swedesboro | 251 | 22.7% | N/A |
| John Hydock Elementary School COLUMBUS | 245 | 12.2% | 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 Thelma L. Sandmeier Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Union County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 55.2% | #423 of 1,290 | #27 of 92 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 60.7% | #395 of 1,319 ▲ 37 | #27 of 93 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 63.4% | #414 of 1,319 ▲ 80 | #27 of 93 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 276 | #1,204 of 1,562 | #91 of 108 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.0:1 | #886 of 1,390 | #43 of 103 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.7% | #334 of 1,392 | #14 of 103 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 13.8% | #1,168 of 1,481 | #75 of 105 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +5.7% | #361 of 545 | #25 of 42 |
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
276
+29 (+12%) vs 2020
+5% since 1990-91, when it was 262
Student : Teacher
12.0:1
was 9.9:1
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 | 276 | 23 | 12.0:1 | 14% (38) |
| 2023-24 | 275 | 23 | 12.0:1 | 9% (25) |
| 2022-23 | 245 | 22 | 11.1:1 | 9% (22) |
| 2020-21 | 247 | 25 | 9.9:1 | 10% (25) |
| 2017-18 | 261 | 23 | 11.3:1 | 12% (31) |
| 2015-16 | 257 | 23 | 11.2:1 | 13% (33) |
| 2010-11 | 210 | 14 | 15.0:1 | 6% (12) |
| 2000-01 | 301 | 18 | 16.7:1 | 5% (14) |
| 1990-91 | 262 | 18 | 14.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Thelma L. Sandmeier Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 6% (261 to 276); teachers unchanged (23 to 23).
About Thelma L. Sandmeier Elementary School
Thelma L. Sandmeier Elementary School is a small elementary school located in Springfield, New Jersey. There are 276 students enrolled, covering grades 3 through 5. On average, elementary schools in New Jersey enroll around 405, and this school is 32% below that mark.
The 5 schools in Springfield Public School District enroll 2,191 students altogether, Thelma L. Sandmeier Elementary School among them.
At Thelma L. Sandmeier Elementary School, 54% of students are White. It is also 17% Hispanic, 16% Black, 6% Asian, and 4% multiracial. For comparison, the population of Union County is roughly 39% White. The diversity index for Thelma L. Sandmeier Elementary School is 65%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Based on 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, Thelma L. Sandmeier Elementary School has a ratio of 12.0:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in New Jersey is similar, at 11.4:1. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 14%. The gap from the 52% average for public schools in Union County is 38 points.
Thelma L. Sandmeier Elementary School earns a B- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 52% of New Jersey public elementary schools.
A school with Thelma L. Sandmeier Elementary School's lunch-eligibility share in New Jersey is predicted to score 58.6%. Thelma L. Sandmeier Elementary School scores 55.2%, 3.4 points below that line.
Union County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $103,202, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of people live in poverty. There are 180 public schools in the county, enrolling about 99,046, Thelma L. Sandmeier Elementary School among them.
About 0.2 miles separate Thelma L. Sandmeier Elementary School from the closest public school, Edward V. Walton Primary School. The five-mile area around Thelma L. Sandmeier Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools. Thelma L. Sandmeier Elementary School comes in 4th of 7 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment rose 12% over 4 years, reaching 276 in 2024-25. The ratio of students to teachers went from 9.9:1 to 12.0:1 over the same years.
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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
Related schools
Other schools in Springfield Public School District
- Jonathan Dayton High SchoolHigh · 654 students
- Edward V. Walton Primary SchoolElementary · 511 students
- Florence M. Gaudineer Middle SchoolMiddle · 474 students
- James Caldwell Elementary SchoolElementary · 276 students
Other schools in Springfield
- Jonathan Dayton High SchoolHigh · 654 students
- Edward V. Walton Primary SchoolElementary · 511 students
- Florence M. Gaudineer Middle SchoolMiddle · 474 students
- James Caldwell Elementary SchoolElementary · 276 students
Nearby schools
- Edward V. Walton Primary School0.2 mi · 511
- Florence M. Gaudineer Middle School0.8 mi · 474
- Crossroads School0.8 mi · 52
- Jonathan Dayton High School1.2 mi · 654
- James Caldwell Elementary School1.4 mi · 276
- Deerfield Elementary School1.5 mi · 483
Frequently asked questions
About Thelma L. Sandmeier Elementary SchoolHow large is Thelma L. Sandmeier Elementary School?
Thelma L. Sandmeier Elementary School enrolls approximately 276 students in grades 03-05.
What age range does Thelma L. Sandmeier Elementary School serve?
Thelma L. Sandmeier Elementary School serves students from grade 03 through grade 05.
How many teachers does Thelma L. Sandmeier Elementary School have?
Thelma L. Sandmeier Elementary School employs 23 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.0:1.
What is the student diversity at Thelma L. Sandmeier Elementary School?
Student demographics at Thelma L. Sandmeier Elementary School are roughly 54% White, 17% Hispanic, 16% Black, 6% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is Thelma L. Sandmeier Elementary School public or private?
Thelma L. Sandmeier Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Springfield Public School District.
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