Theodore Roosevelt School

Theodore Roosevelt School is one of the low-enrollment elementary schools in WEEHAWKEN, New Jersey, part of Weehawken Public School District, with 337 students on its rolls from grades 3 through 6.

Weehawken Public School District comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,347 students; Theodore Roosevelt School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Theodore Roosevelt School shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 43%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school reports 41% White, 8% Asian, 5% Black, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Theodore Roosevelt School reports 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. Around 49% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Hudson County runs at roughly 68%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Theodore Roosevelt School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.4%, the actual is 42.7%, a residual of +3.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Hudson County indicate median household earnings sit near $91,795, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Hudson County runs 130 public schools (combined enrollment of about 86,216 students), of which Theodore Roosevelt School is one.

The closest other public school is Weehawken High School, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Theodore Roosevelt School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 34.7%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Five-year trend. Theodore Roosevelt School's enrollment has fell 12% since 2018, when it stood at 383 (now 337). The Hispanic share of enrollment contracted from 53% to 43% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 11.0:1 in 2018 to 9.0:1 in 2025.

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