Wallace Elementary School

Wallace Elementary School is a big elementary campus in HOBOKEN, New Jersey, part of Hoboken Public School District. The school works with 649 students in grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 405 students per school, that is 60% bigger than typical.

Hoboken Public School District runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 2,724 students. Wallace Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Wallace Elementary School shows that 55% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder is composed of 24% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 6% Black, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 32% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 62 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 29% of students at Wallace Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Hudson County runs at roughly 68%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Wallace Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.6%; this one delivers 55.5%.

Across the wider county, Hudson County reports that median household earnings sit near $91,795, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Hudson County's 130 public schools (combined enrollment of about 86,216 students), Wallace Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Joseph F Brandt Elementary School, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Wallace Elementary School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 55.8%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 4%: 678 students in 2018 compared to 649 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share contracted from 35% to 24%. Class-load math has rose: from 8.7:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 in 2025.

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