Thomas G. Connors Elementary School

Thomas G. Connors Elementary School operates as a medium-sized primary school in HOBOKEN, New Jersey, part of Hoboken Public School District. Current enrollment sits at 353 students spanning grades K through 5.

Hoboken Public School District comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 2,724 students; Thomas G. Connors Elementary School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Thomas G. Connors Elementary School records that the largest single group is White at 48%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school lists 22% Hispanic, 14% Asian, 10% Black, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 32% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. An estimated 32% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Hudson County runs at roughly 68%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Thomas G. Connors 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 48.8%; Thomas G. Connors Elementary School posts 64.3%, +15.5 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Hudson County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $91,795 per year, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Hudson County's 130 public schools (combined enrollment of about 86,216 students), Thomas G. Connors Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Hoboken Dual Language Charter School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Thomas G. Connors Elementary School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 58.3%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Thomas G. Connors Elementary School has increased 46%, going from 241 students in 2018 to 353 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share increased from 11% to 48%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 8.3:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 today.

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