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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School this year?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Enrollment
871
Elementary
DISTRICT 588 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·UNION CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341638002920
Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School
4507 HUDSON AVE, UNION CITY, NJ 07087 · (201) 348-5971 · Hudson County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL871 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 70% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats 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
15.3:1
57 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.2:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
92%
802 students
DISTRICT 78% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 9 | 1% |
| Kindergarten | 109 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 124 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 117 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 137 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 142 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 115 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 118 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (109) is 8% smaller than its 6th grade class (118).
Student demographics
11%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 10% · 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
Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School→Union Hill Middle School
Based on grade levels within Union City School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
52.2%
NJ avg 53.1% . -4.3pp since 2023
Math
41.2%
NJ avg 41.6% . +6.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 41 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 52.2% | 41.2% |
| 2023-24 | 56.5% | 34.3% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NJ schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
41.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
15.8%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+26.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 42% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 16% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 26 points, placing it in New Jersey's top 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 Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School
Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School's state test result (41.8% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School this school | 871 | 92.1% | 41.8% |
| Blanquita B. Valenti Community School New Brunswick | 810 | 93.7% | 23.7% |
| Abington Avenue School NEWARK | 842 | 89.4% | 24.1% |
| Public School Number One WEST NEW YORK | 758 | 92.1% | 30.9% |
| Broad Street School BRIDGETON | 784 | 95.0% | 10.8% |
| Mahatma Gandhi School Number 25 Passaic | 903 | 99.1% | 7.8% |
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 Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Hudson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 41.8% | #704 of 1,290 | #27 of 84 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 41.2% | #765 of 1,319 ▲ 76 | #28 of 84 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 52.2% | #652 of 1,319 ▼ 105 | #27 of 84 ▼ 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 871 | #34 of 1,562 | #12 of 88 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.3:1 | #1,312 of 1,390 | #78 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 10.6% | #1,369 of 1,392 | #79 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 92.1% | #38 of 1,481 | #3 of 88 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.1% | #319 of 798 | #37 of 61 |
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
871
-99 (-10%) vs 2020
+25% since 1990-91, when it was 699
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
was 15.9:1
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 | 871 | 57 | 15.3:1 | 92% (802) |
| 2023-24 | 881 | N/A | N/A | 91% (806) |
| 2022-23 | 919 | 64 | 14.4:1 | 89% (818) |
| 2020-21 | 970 | 61 | 15.9:1 | 71% (687) |
| 2017-18 | 1,002 | 57.2 | 17.5:1 | 93% (928) |
| 2015-16 | 1,058 | 59 | 17.9:1 | 94% (996) |
| 2010-11 | 880 | 49 | 18.0:1 | 95% (835) |
| 2000-01 | 1,151 | 70 | 16.4:1 | 86% (988) |
| 1990-91 | 699 | 45 | 15.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 13% (1,002 to 871); teachers unchanged (57.2 to 57).
About Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School
Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School, a large elementary school, is located in UNION CITY, New Jersey. It covers pre-K through 6, with a total enrollment of 871 students. Statewide, elementary schools in New Jersey average about 405 students each.
The 14 schools of Union City School District, including Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School, enroll 11,519 students.
Federal enrollment data show Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School is 94% Hispanic. Other groups include 3% White. The county population is about 41% Hispanic. Pick two students at random and there is an 11% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Teachers at Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School total 57 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 15.3:1. That is 3.8 students per teacher above the 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 92%. The average for public schools in Hudson County is 68%.
Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School is graded B+ by allk12, scoring above 70% of New Jersey public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School beats its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests by 26.1 points (41.8% versus 15.8%), a top-10% result in New Jersey on BeatsExpectations.
In the county around the school, Hudson County, the median household income is $91,795, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 11% of people live in poverty. There are 130 public schools in Hudson County, enrolling about 86,216 students in all.
Theodore Roosevelt School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles away. The five-mile area around Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools. Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School ranks 3rd of 8 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 41.8% against a local average of 34.9%.
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.
Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School's enrollment dropped from 970 in 2020-21 to 871 in 2024-25.
Discussions about Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School may include science fairs, picture day, and bus routes. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Hudson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
718,323
Census ACS
Median income
$91,795
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
49%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
130
86,216 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Union City School District
- Union City High SchoolHigh · 3,147 students
- Emerson Middle SchoolMiddle · 999 students
- Robert Waters Elementary SchoolElementary · 983 students
- Union Hill Middle SchoolMiddle · 865 students
- George Washington Elementary SchoolElementary · 776 students
- Thomas A Edison Elementary SchoolElementary · 767 students
Other schools in UNION CITY
- Union City High SchoolHigh · 3,147 students
- Emerson Middle SchoolMiddle · 999 students
- Robert Waters Elementary SchoolElementary · 983 students
- Union Hill Middle SchoolMiddle · 865 students
- George Washington Elementary SchoolElementary · 776 students
- Thomas A Edison Elementary SchoolElementary · 767 students
Other Theodore Roosevelt Elementary schools
6 other US public schools in 5 states are named Theodore Roosevelt Elementary. Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School is the largest of the 7.
- Theodore Roosevelt Elementary SchoolPark Ridge, IL · 677 students
- Theodore Roosevelt ElementarySelma, CA · 634 students
- Theodore Roosevelt ElementaryBurbank, CA · 591 students
- Theodore Roosevelt ElementaryIndio, CA · 490 students
- THEODORE ROOSEVELT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLCOCOA BEACH, FL · 275 students
Nearby schools
- Theodore Roosevelt School0.3 mi · 337
- Early Childhood School0.3 mi · 395
- Weehawken High School0.3 mi · 604
- George Washington Elementary School0.4 mi · 776
- Public School Number Two0.4 mi · 621
- Union Hill Middle School0.4 mi · 865
Frequently asked questions
About Theodore Roosevelt Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School?
Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School enrolls approximately 871 students in grades PK-06.
Is Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School is approximately 15.3:1 (57 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School?
Student demographics at Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School are roughly 3% White, 94% Hispanic, 2% Black, 1% Asian.
What district is Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School in?
Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School is part of Union City School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.