Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School

Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School is an elementary school of expansive scale in UNION CITY, New Jersey, operated by Union City School District, teacheing 871 students in grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 115% larger than the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 405 students.

Union City School District comprises 14 schools with combined enrollment of 11,519 students; Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (94%). The remainder looks like 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 41% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School has 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.3:1. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 92% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Hudson County (around 68%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of New Jersey public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 15.8%; Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School posts 41.8%, +26.1 points above that line.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Hudson County shows median household income runs about $91,795, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School is one of 130 public schools in Hudson County (combined enrollment of about 86,216 students).

Nearest neighbor: Theodore Roosevelt School, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 34.9%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School has decreased 13%, going from 1,002 students in 2018 to 871 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 in 2025.

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