Enrollment
397
Elementary
DISTRICT 314 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ROSELLE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341428005658
Washington Elementary School
501 WASHINGTON AVENUE, ROSELLE, NJ 07203 · (908) 298-2072 · Union County
GRADES 01–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL397 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 24% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- C-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.
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
14.4:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.9:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
75%
298 students
DISTRICT 74% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 44 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 96 | 24% |
| Grade 2 | 71 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 86 | 22% |
| Grade 4 | 100 | 25% |
This year's 1st grade class (96) is about the same size as its 4th grade class (100).
Student demographics
59%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 55% · 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
Washington Elementary School→Leonard V Moore Middle School→Grace Wilday Junior High School→Abraham Clark High School
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NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
30.8%
NJ avg 53.1% . +0.2pp since 2023
Math
20.2%
NJ avg 41.6% . -0.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 31 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 have held steady.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 30.8% | 20.2% |
| 2023-24 | 30.6% | 20.6% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
25.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.1%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 26% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 25% 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 Washington Elementary School
Washington Elementary School's state test result (25.6% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington Elementary School this school | 397 | 75.1% | 25.6% |
| Thurgood Marshall Elementary School ASBURY PARK | 443 | 80.1% | 7.8% |
| Hurden Looker Elementary School HILLSIDE | 408 | 78.2% | 39.7% |
| Forest Street Community Elementary School ORANGE | 384 | 70.1% | 32.7% |
| Dr. Charles C. Polk School ROSELLE | 315 | 75.2% | 28.9% |
| Number 5 Linden | 319 | 75.9% | 28.7% |
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 Washington Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Union County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 25.6% | #1,039 of 1,290 | #66 of 92 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 20.2% | #1,149 of 1,319 ▼ 69 | #77 of 93 ▼ 11 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 30.8% | #1,091 of 1,319 ▼ 37 | #75 of 93 ▼ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 397 | #712 of 1,562 | #59 of 108 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.4:1 | #1,277 of 1,390 | #95 of 103 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 58.8% | #550 of 1,392 | #35 of 103 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 75.1% | #287 of 1,481 | #43 of 105 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +28.1% | #66 of 545 | #3 of 42 |
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
397
+80 (+25%) vs 2020
+16% since 1990-91, when it was 343
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
was 10.9:1
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 | 397 | 27.5 | 14.4:1 | 75% (298) |
| 2023-24 | 358 | 28 | 12.8:1 | 62% (221) |
| 2022-23 | 337 | 32.5 | 10.4:1 | 60% (201) |
| 2020-21 | 317 | 29 | 10.9:1 | 61% (193) |
| 2017-18 | 310 | 22 | 14.1:1 | 75% (234) |
| 2015-16 | 331 | 34 | 9.7:1 | 73% (240) |
| 2010-11 | 274 | 23 | 11.9:1 | 73% (199) |
| 2000-01 | 352 | 19 | 18.5:1 | 47% (167) |
| 1990-91 | 343 | 17 | 20.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Washington Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 28% (310 to 397); teachers up 25% (22 to 27.5).
About Washington Elementary School
Washington Elementary School runs as a mid-sized elementary school in ROSELLE, New Jersey. The school covers grades 1 through 4 and reported 397 students in 2024-25.
Washington Elementary School is one school in a 7-school district, Roselle Public School District, which enrolls 3,147 students.
No group is above 50% at Washington Elementary School; the largest is Black, at 46%. After that, the student body is 44% Hispanic, 5% White, and 2% multiracial. Among all residents of Union County, the Black share is about 20%. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 59%.
The school had 27.5 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25. Its student-to-teacher ratio is 14.4:1. The gap from the 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey is 3.0 students per teacher. The school reported 75% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. The gap from the 52% average for public schools in Union County is 23 points.
Washington Elementary School holds a C- allk12 Grade, placing it above 24% of New Jersey public elementary schools.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Washington Elementary School is +0.6 points: 25.6% actual, 25.1% predicted.
The county, Union County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $103,202 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 39%, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. Union County has 180 public schools with about 99,046 students, including Washington Elementary School.
Among nearby public schools, Leonard V Moore Middle School is closest at about 0.5 miles. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Washington Elementary School. Among the 7 closest schools with test data, this one included, Washington Elementary School ranks 3rd on average proficiency.
The school's locale code, Suburb: Large, means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
By 2024-25, enrollment had risen to 397, from 317 in 2020-21. The ratio was 10.9:1 in 2020-21 and 14.4:1 in 2024-25.
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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
Related schools
Other schools in Roselle Public School District
- Abraham Clark High SchoolHigh · 926 students
- Leonard V Moore Middle SchoolMiddle · 485 students
- Grace Wilday Junior High SchoolMiddle · 482 students
- Harrison Elementary SchoolElementary · 325 students
- Dr. Charles C. Polk SchoolElementary · 315 students
- Kindergarten Success AcademyElementary · 217 students
Other schools in ROSELLE
- Abraham Clark High SchoolHigh · 926 students
- Leonard V Moore Middle SchoolMiddle · 485 students
- Grace Wilday Junior High SchoolMiddle · 482 students
- Harrison Elementary SchoolElementary · 325 students
- Dr. Charles C. Polk SchoolElementary · 315 students
- Kindergarten Success AcademyElementary · 217 students
Other Washington Elementary schools
155 other US public schools in 28 states are named Washington Elementary. Washington Elementary School is the 61st largest of the 156.
- Washington Elementary SchoolEDISON, NJ · 630 students
- Washington ElementaryUNION, NJ · 578 students
- Washington Elementary SchoolKEARNY, NJ · 557 students
- Washington Elementary SchoolLITTLE FERRY, NJ · 469 students
- Washington Elementary SchoolW ORANGE, NJ · 414 students
Nearby schools
- Leonard V Moore Middle School0.5 mi · 485
- Grace Wilday Junior High School0.7 mi · 482
- Abraham Clark High School0.7 mi · 926
- Number 100.8 mi · 299
- Raymond J. Lesniak Experience Strength & Hope Recovery HS0.9 mi · 10
- Kindergarten Success Academy0.9 mi · 217
Frequently asked questions
About Washington Elementary SchoolHow large is Washington Elementary School?
Washington Elementary School enrolls approximately 397 students in grades 01-04.
What age range does Washington Elementary School serve?
Washington Elementary School serves students from grade 01 through grade 04.
How many students per teacher at Washington Elementary School?
Approximately 14.4:1 students per teacher at Washington Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Washington Elementary School?
Student demographics at Washington Elementary School are roughly 5% White, 44% Hispanic, 46% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is Washington Elementary School in?
Washington Elementary School is part of Roselle Public School District.
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