Enrollment
256
Elementary
STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·UNITY CHARTER SCHOOL·NCES 340005100339
Unity Charter School
1 Evergreen Place, MORRISTOWN, NJ 07960 · (973) 292-1808 · Morris County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBCHARTERREGULAR SCHOOL256 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 78% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+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
10.2:1
25 FTE teachers
STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
17%
43 students
STATE 41%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 30 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 28 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 26 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 31 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 27 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 30 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 30 | 12% |
| Grade 7 | 28 | 11% |
| Grade 8 | 26 | 10% |
This year's kindergarten class (30) is 15% larger than its 8th grade class (26).
Student demographics
74%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
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
72.9%
NJ avg 53.1% . +2.6pp since 2023
Math
66.2%
NJ avg 41.6% . +4.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 73 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 66 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 72.9% | 66.2% |
| 2023-24 | 70.3% | 62.0% |
% 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
64.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.0%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% 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 Unity Charter School
Unity Charter School's state test result (64.1% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unity Charter School this school | 256 | 16.8% | 64.1% |
| Intervale Elementary School Boonton | 287 | 18.8% | 64.8% |
| Memorial Elementary School PARAMUS | 289 | 13.5% | 72.3% |
| Triangle Elementary School Hillsborough | 362 | 17.7% | 73.3% |
| Mawbey Street Elementary School WOODBRIDGE | 304 | 25.0% | 50.9% |
| Warnsdorfer Elementary School EAST BRUNSWICK | 325 | 20.3% | 73.3% |
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 Unity Charter School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Morris County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 64.1% | #263 of 1,290 | #35 of 76 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 66.2% | #309 of 1,319 ▲ 32 | #40 of 77 ▲ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 72.9% | #205 of 1,319 ▲ 29 | #21 of 77 ▲ 9 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 256 | #1,260 of 1,562 | #81 of 92 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.2:1 | #404 of 1,390 | #33 of 89 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 73.7% | #43 of 1,392 | #1 of 89 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 16.8% | #1,101 of 1,481 | #38 of 90 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +5.8% | #358 of 545 | #28 of 40 |
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
256
+11 (+4%) vs 2020
+77% since 2010-11, when it was 145
Student : Teacher
10.2:1
was 11.1:1
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 | 256 | 25 | 10.2:1 | 17% (43) |
| 2023-24 | 244 | 29.3 | 8.3:1 | 7% (16) |
| 2022-23 | 263 | 25 | 10.5:1 | 7% (19) |
| 2020-21 | 245 | 22 | 11.1:1 | 11% (28) |
| 2017-18 | 242 | 22.1 | 10.9:1 | 11% (27) |
| 2015-16 | 219 | 21 | 10.4:1 | 7% (16) |
| 2010-11 | 145 | 12 | 12.1:1 | 5% (7) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Unity Charter School.
Since 2017-18: students up 6% (242 to 256); teachers up 13% (22.1 to 25).
About Unity Charter School
In MORRISTOWN, New Jersey, Unity Charter School is a small elementary school. The school's 256 students are in kindergarten through 8. Enrollment is 37% lower than the average for elementary schools in New Jersey, which is about 405.
Federal records list Unity Charter School as its own district.
The most common group at Unity Charter School is Asian students, at 37%. Other groups include 30% White, 15% Hispanic, 12% Black, and 6% multiracial. The county population is about 11% Asian. Unity Charter School's diversity index is 74%, against a US figure of 70%.
Federal records show a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.2:1 at Unity Charter School, with 25 full-time-equivalent teachers. This ratio sits 1.2 below the 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility, a common measure of family income, is 17%. For comparison, public schools in Morris County average 19%.
allk12 grades Unity Charter School an A-. The grade compares the school only with New Jersey public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
In New Jersey, Unity Charter School is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 64.1% actual against a predicted 57.0%.
Morris County has about 514,528 residents, and the median household income is $137,326, about 58% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 3%. In all, Morris County has 156 public schools and roughly 72,239 students.
The shortest distance from Unity Charter School to another public school is about 0.5 miles, to Lafayette Learning Center. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Unity Charter School comes in 1st of 6 nearby schools on average proficiency.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more. The school is classified as a charter school in federal data.
Compared with 2020-21, the school had 11 more students in 2024-25.
Threads on this page can be about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Morris County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
514,528
Census ACS
Median income
$137,326
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
58%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
3%
Below federal line
Schools in county
156
72,239 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in MORRISTOWN
- Morristown High SchoolHigh · 1,816 students
- Frelinghuysen Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,078 students
- Normandy Park SchoolElementary · 371 students
- Sussex Avenue SchoolElementary · 327 students
- Thomas Jefferson SchoolElementary · 285 students
- Alexander HamiltonElementary · 251 students
Nearby schools
- Lafayette Learning Center0.5 mi · 118
- Morristown High School1.1 mi · 1,816
- Alfred Vail School1.1 mi · 342
- Sussex Avenue School1.2 mi · 327
- Alexander Hamilton1.3 mi · 251
- Normandy Park School1.4 mi · 371
Frequently asked questions
About Unity Charter SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Unity Charter School?
Unity Charter School enrolls approximately 256 students in grades KG-08.
What age range does Unity Charter School serve?
Unity Charter School serves students from grade KG through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Unity Charter School?
Approximately 10.2:1 students per teacher at Unity Charter School.
What is the student diversity at Unity Charter School?
Student demographics at Unity Charter School are roughly 30% White, 15% Hispanic, 12% Black, 37% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is Unity Charter School public or private?
Unity Charter School is a public K-12 school operated as a charter, overseen by Unity Charter School.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.