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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Toussaint Louverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6 administration to hear?
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Enrollment
1,001
Elementary
DISTRICT 639 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ELIZABETH PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 340459005498
Toussaint L'Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
1071 JULIA ST, ELIZABETH, NJ 07201 · (908) 436-5600 · Union County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,001 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 15% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+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
12.4:1
81 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.5:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
87%
874 students
DISTRICT 83% · 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 | 66 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 104 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 105 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 93 | 9% |
| Grade 3 | 95 | 9% |
| Grade 4 | 103 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 101 | 10% |
| Grade 6 | 116 | 12% |
| Grade 7 | 90 | 9% |
| Grade 8 | 128 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (104) is 19% smaller than its 8th grade class (128).
Student demographics
43%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 38% · 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
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
23.7%
NJ avg 53.1% . -0.3pp since 2023
Math
19.7%
NJ avg 41.6% . +5.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 24 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 20 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 23.7% | 19.7% |
| 2023-24 | 24.0% | 14.2% |
% 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
17.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
18.4%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 18% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 18% 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 Toussaint L'Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Toussaint L'Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6's state test result (17.6% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Toussaint L'Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6 this school | 1,001 | 87.3% | 17.6% |
| Dr. Antonia Pantoja School No. 27 ELIZABETH | 934 | 82.8% | 28.6% |
| LUIS MUNOZ MARIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Newark | 818 | 86.7% | 19.6% |
| McKinley Elementary School NEWARK | 917 | 85.1% | 17.3% |
| Mabel G. Holmes School No. 5 ELIZABETH | 767 | 84.0% | 19.7% |
| Dr. Albert Einstein Academy School No. 29 ELIZABETH | 785 | 84.5% | 38.2% |
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 Toussaint L'Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Union County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 17.6% | #1,159 of 1,290 | #84 of 92 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 19.7% | #1,153 of 1,319 ▲ 40 | #78 of 93 ▲ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 23.7% | #1,191 of 1,319 ▼ 31 | #87 of 93 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,001 | #13 of 1,562 | #1 of 108 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.4:1 | #963 of 1,390 | #56 of 103 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 42.8% | #986 of 1,392 | #72 of 103 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 87.3% | #93 of 1,481 | #13 of 105 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.8% | #705 of 798 | #46 of 58 |
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
1,001
-65 (-6%) vs 2020
+46% since 1990-91, when it was 685
Student : Teacher
12.4:1
was 13.5:1
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 | 1,001 | 81 | 12.4:1 | 87% (874) |
| 2023-24 | 1,015 | 80 | 12.7:1 | 86% (868) |
| 2022-23 | 1,042 | 80.5 | 12.9:1 | 81% (848) |
| 2020-21 | 1,066 | 79 | 13.5:1 | 78% (827) |
| 2017-18 | 1,030 | 77 | 13.4:1 | 84% (866) |
| 2015-16 | 957 | 72 | 13.3:1 | 90% (860) |
| 2010-11 | 851 | 64 | 13.3:1 | 94% (799) |
| 2000-01 | 1,170 | 101 | 11.6:1 | 64% (749) |
| 1990-91 | 685 | 37 | 18.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Toussaint L'Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6.
Since 2017-18: students down 3% (1,030 to 1,001); teachers up 5% (77 to 81).
About Toussaint L'Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Toussaint L'Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6 operates as a large elementary school in ELIZABETH, New Jersey. The school teaches pre-K through 8 and enrolls 1,001 students. The school is 147% bigger than the average for elementary schools in New Jersey.
Federal data list 37 schools in Elizabeth Public Schools, with 27,580 students enrolled.
More than half of enrollment at Toussaint L'Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6 is Hispanic: 73%. Other groups include 19% Black and 6% White. The county population is about 35% Hispanic. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Toussaint L'Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6 scores 43%.
The school has 81 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 12.4 students per teacher. Compared with the 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey, this school's ratio is higher. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 87% of the student body. It compares with 52% for public schools in Union County.
On the allk12 Grade, Toussaint L'Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6 lands at C-, ahead of 15% of New Jersey public elementary schools.
Toussaint L'Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6 posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 17.6%, compared with a predicted 18.4%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of New Jersey schools on BeatsExpectations.
In the wider Union County area, 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. Union County's 180 public schools enroll about 99,046 students and include Toussaint L'Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Donald Stewart Early Childhood Center No 51, is about 0.4 miles. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of the 8 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Toussaint L'Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6 is 6th on average proficiency.
In the federal locale system, Toussaint L'Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6 is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2020-21, Toussaint L'Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6 enrolled 1,066 students. By 2024-25, that number had fallen to 1,001. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (12.4:1) than in 2020-21 (13.5:1).
Use the discussion section to ask about homework, tutoring, and testing dates at Toussaint L'Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
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
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Other schools in ELIZABETH
- John E. Dwyer Technology AcademyHigh · 1,348 students
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- Thomas Jefferson Arts AcademyHigh · 1,144 students
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- Terence C. Reilly School No 7Middle · 1,130 students
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- Donald Stewart Early Childhood Center No 510.4 mi · 310
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Frequently asked questions
About Toussaint L'Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6How large is Toussaint L'Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6?
Toussaint L'Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6 enrolls approximately 1,001 students in grades PK-08.
What grades does Toussaint L'Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6 serve?
Toussaint L'Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6 serves grades PK-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Toussaint L'Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Toussaint L'Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6 is approximately 12.4:1 (81 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Toussaint L'Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6?
Student demographics at Toussaint L'Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6 are roughly 6% White, 73% Hispanic, 19% Black, 1% Asian.
Who oversees Toussaint L'Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6?
Toussaint L'Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6 is overseen by Elizabeth Public Schools in Union County.
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