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Enrollment
502
Elementary
DISTRICT 588 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·UNION CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341638000715
Veterans' Memorial Elementary School
1401 CENTRAL AVENUE, UNION CITY, NJ 07087 · (201) 348-2737 · Hudson County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL502 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 61% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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
13.2:1
38 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.2:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
91%
456 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 | 43 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 56 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 76 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 64 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 84 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 93 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 86 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (56) is 35% smaller than its 5th grade class (86).
Student demographics
6%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
Veterans' Memorial Elementary School→Emerson 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
46.6%
NJ avg 53.1% . +5.2pp since 2023
Math
37.4%
NJ avg 41.6% . -0.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 37 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 46.6% | 37.4% |
| 2023-24 | 41.4% | 37.6% |
% 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
35.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
16.4%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+18.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 35% 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 19 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 Veterans' Memorial Elementary School
Veterans' Memorial Elementary School's state test result (35.2% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Veterans' Memorial Elementary School this school | 502 | 90.8% | 35.2% |
| Public School Number Three WEST NEW YORK | 506 | 90.1% | 33.8% |
| Albio Sires Elementary School WEST NEW YORK | 518 | 88.2% | 34.1% |
| Public School Number Five WEST NEW YORK | 570 | 94.2% | 31.9% |
| Maria Varisco Rogers Charter School NEWARK | 572 | 88.5% | 39.9% |
| Harry L Bain WEST NEW YORK | 599 | 86.0% | 33.6% |
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 Veterans' Memorial Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Hudson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 35.2% | #854 of 1,290 | #44 of 84 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 37.4% | #849 of 1,319 ▼ 57 | #34 of 84 ▼ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 46.6% | #795 of 1,319 ▲ 61 | #42 of 84 ▲ 10 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 502 | #403 of 1,562 | #52 of 88 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.2:1 | #1,132 of 1,390 | #66 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 6.2% | #1,386 of 1,392 | #84 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 90.8% | #50 of 1,481 | #5 of 88 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.6% | #219 of 798 | #25 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
502
-57 (-10%) vs 2020
+7% since 2010-11, when it was 467
Student : Teacher
13.2:1
was 16.0:1
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 | 502 | 38 | 13.2:1 | 91% (456) |
| 2023-24 | 531 | 37 | 14.3:1 | 88% (467) |
| 2022-23 | 551 | 37 | 14.9:1 | 87% (480) |
| 2020-21 | 559 | 35 | 16.0:1 | 76% (423) |
| 2017-18 | 609 | 37.2 | 16.4:1 | 86% (522) |
| 2015-16 | 616 | 38 | 16.2:1 | 87% (537) |
| 2010-11 | 467 | 33 | 14.2:1 | 93% (436) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Veterans' Memorial Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 18% (609 to 502); teachers up 2% (37.2 to 38).
About Veterans' Memorial Elementary School
Located in UNION CITY, New Jersey, Veterans' Memorial Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school. The school serves pre-K through 5. Enrollment is 502 students. That is 24% above the average of about 405 students for elementary schools in New Jersey.
In Union City School District, 14 schools enroll a combined 11,519 students.
The share of Hispanic students at Veterans' Memorial Elementary School is 97%. Hudson County as a whole is about 41% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 6%.
Veterans' Memorial Elementary School has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 13.2:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in New Jersey is 11.4:1. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 91% at Veterans' Memorial Elementary School. That is 23 points above the 68% average for public schools in Hudson County.
Among New Jersey public elementary schools, Veterans' Memorial Elementary School outscored 61%, which works out to a B on the allk12 Grade.
On BeatsExpectations, which compares test results with what a school's student poverty level would predict, Veterans' Memorial Elementary School ranks in the top 10% in New Jersey. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 35.2%, against a prediction of 16.4%.
Hudson County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $91,795, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 49%, and about 11% of people live in poverty. Hudson County's 130 public schools enroll about 86,216 students and include Veterans' Memorial Elementary School.
Of the public schools around it, Veterans' Memorial Elementary School is closest to Sara M. Gilmore Academy, about 0.2 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. On average proficiency, Veterans' Memorial Elementary School is 7th of 8 nearby schools with test data.
Veterans' Memorial Elementary School has an NCES locale of Suburb: Large.
Enrollment was 502 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 559. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 16.0:1 to 13.2:1.
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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
- Theodore Roosevelt Elementary SchoolElementary · 871 students
- Union Hill Middle SchoolMiddle · 865 students
- George Washington Elementary SchoolElementary · 776 students
Other schools in UNION CITY
- Union City High SchoolHigh · 3,147 students
- Emerson Middle SchoolMiddle · 999 students
- Robert Waters Elementary SchoolElementary · 983 students
- Theodore Roosevelt Elementary SchoolElementary · 871 students
- Union Hill Middle SchoolMiddle · 865 students
- George Washington Elementary SchoolElementary · 776 students
Nearby schools
- Sara M. Gilmore Academy0.2 mi · 400
- Jose Marti STEM Academy0.2 mi · 625
- John F Kennedy Elementary School0.2 mi · 576
- Colin Powell Elementary School0.3 mi · 692
- Emerson Middle School0.3 mi · 999
- Thomas A Edison Elementary School0.4 mi · 767
Frequently asked questions
About Veterans' Memorial Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Veterans' Memorial Elementary School?
Veterans' Memorial Elementary School enrolls approximately 502 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Veterans' Memorial Elementary School serve?
Veterans' Memorial Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Veterans' Memorial Elementary School have?
Veterans' Memorial Elementary School employs 38 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.2:1.
What is the student diversity at Veterans' Memorial Elementary School?
Student demographics at Veterans' Memorial Elementary School are roughly 1% White, 97% Hispanic, 0% Black, 2% Asian.
What district is Veterans' Memorial Elementary School in?
Veterans' Memorial 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.