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Enrollment
924
Elementary
DISTRICT 671 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BAYONNE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340126002710
Walter F. Robinson Community School
95 WEST 31ST STREET, BAYONNE, NJ 07002 · (201) 858-5964 · Hudson County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL924 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 45% 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.
- BBeats 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
11.1:1
84 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.2:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
68%
628 students
DISTRICT 64% · 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 | 41 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 80 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 87 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 90 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 103 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 100 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 103 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 99 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 109 | 12% |
| Grade 8 | 112 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (80) is 29% smaller than its 8th grade class (112).
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · 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
39.3%
NJ avg 53.1% . -10.4pp since 2023
Math
28.8%
NJ avg 41.6% . -5.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 29 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 10 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 5 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 39.3% | 28.8% |
| 2023-24 | 49.7% | 34.3% |
% 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
34.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
29.0%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 29% 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 Walter F. Robinson Community School
Walter F. Robinson Community School's state test result (34.6% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Walter F. Robinson Community School this school | 924 | 68.0% | 34.6% |
| Cold Springs School GLOUCESTER CITY | 839 | 65.9% | 29.7% |
| Crawford-Rodriguez Elementary School Jackson | 718 | 63.9% | 28.6% |
| Charles J. Riley/ School 9 PATERSON | 682 | 64.4% | 34.8% |
| Walnut Street Elementary School TOMS RIVER | 727 | 64.4% | 24.9% |
| Riverside Elementary School RIVERSIDE | 768 | 64.6% | 20.4% |
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 Walter F. Robinson Community School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Hudson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 34.6% | #861 of 1,290 | #45 of 84 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 28.8% | #998 of 1,319 ▼ 154 | #60 of 84 ▼ 30 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 39.3% | #946 of 1,319 ▼ 269 | #65 of 84 ▼ 34 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 924 | #26 of 1,562 | #10 of 88 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.1:1 | #626 of 1,390 | #39 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.6% | #340 of 1,392 | #31 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 68.0% | #378 of 1,481 | #53 of 88 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +18.9% | #110 of 545 | #7 of 24 |
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
924
+152 (+20%) vs 2020
+92% since 1990-91, when it was 481
Student : Teacher
11.1:1
was 11.2:1
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 | 924 | 83.5 | 11.1:1 | 68% (628) |
| 2023-24 | 885 | 75 | 11.8:1 | 60% (530) |
| 2022-23 | 908 | 80 | 11.3:1 | 54% (492) |
| 2020-21 | 772 | 69 | 11.2:1 | 52% (401) |
| 2017-18 | 777 | 62 | 12.5:1 | 63% (491) |
| 2015-16 | 712 | 65 | 10.9:1 | 69% (493) |
| 2010-11 | 794 | 49 | 16.2:1 | 62% (496) |
| 2000-01 | 446 | 32 | 13.9:1 | 34% (152) |
| 1990-91 | 481 | 23 | 20.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Walter F. Robinson Community School.
Since 2017-18: students up 19% (777 to 924); teachers up 35% (62 to 83.5).
About Walter F. Robinson Community School
Walter F. Robinson Community School is a high-enrollment elementary school that serves part of BAYONNE, New Jersey. The school covers pre-K through 8 and reported 924 students in 2024-25. On average, elementary schools in New Jersey enroll around 405, and this school is 128% larger than that mark.
Bayonne School District, which runs Walter F. Robinson Community School, has 13 schools and 10,325 students.
White students make up 45% of enrollment at Walter F. Robinson Community School, the largest share of any group. Beyond that, enrollment is 37% Hispanic, 7% Black, 7% Asian, and 3% multiracial. In Hudson County overall, about 32% of residents are White. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 65, compared with 70 nationally.
Walter F. Robinson Community School has a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.1:1, with 83.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. The 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey is close to this figure. The school has 68% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Hudson County is similar, at 68%.
On the allk12 Grade, Walter F. Robinson Community School lands at B-, ahead of 45% of New Jersey public elementary schools.
Walter F. Robinson Community School's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 34.6% is 5.7 points above the 29.0% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
The school is in Hudson County, where median household income comes to about $91,795, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 11% of people live in poverty. Hudson County's 130 public schools enroll about 86,216 students and include Walter F. Robinson Community School.
Measured in a straight line, Bayonne High School is about 0.2 miles from Walter F. Robinson Community School. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. On proficiency, Walter F. Robinson Community School is behind the 40.8% nearby average, ranking 6th of 8.
Walter F. Robinson Community School has an NCES locale of Suburb: Large.
Enrollment was 924 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 772.
This page is set up for the Walter F. Robinson Community School community to discuss homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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 Bayonne School District
- Bayonne High SchoolHigh · 2,830 students
- William Shemin Midtown Community School #8Elementary · 1,203 students
- Woodrow Wilson Community SchoolElementary · 740 students
- Horace Mann Community SchoolElementary · 712 students
- Washington Community School #9Elementary · 691 students
- Henry E. Harris Community SchoolElementary · 657 students
Other schools in BAYONNE
- Bayonne High SchoolHigh · 2,830 students
- William Shemin Midtown Community School #8Elementary · 1,203 students
- Woodrow Wilson Community SchoolElementary · 740 students
- Horace Mann Community SchoolElementary · 712 students
- Washington Community School #9Elementary · 691 students
- Henry E. Harris Community SchoolElementary · 657 students
Nearby schools
- Bayonne High School0.2 mi · 2,830
- Bayonne Alternative High School0.2 mi · 109
- Philip G. Vroom Community School0.4 mi · 433
- William Shemin Midtown Community School #80.5 mi · 1,203
- Horace Mann Community School0.5 mi · 712
- Lincoln Community School #50.5 mi · 497
Frequently asked questions
About Walter F. Robinson Community SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Walter F. Robinson Community School?
Walter F. Robinson Community School enrolls approximately 924 students in grades PK-08.
Is Walter F. Robinson Community School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Walter F. Robinson Community School is an elementary school covering grades PK-08.
How many teachers does Walter F. Robinson Community School have?
Walter F. Robinson Community School employs 84 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.1:1.
What is the student diversity at Walter F. Robinson Community School?
Student demographics at Walter F. Robinson Community School are roughly 45% White, 37% Hispanic, 7% Black, 7% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is Walter F. Robinson Community School in?
Walter F. Robinson Community School is part of Bayonne School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.