Enrollment
323
Elementary
DISTRICT 274 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SUMMIT PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341590005722
Washington Elementary School
507 MORRIS AVE, SUMMIT, NJ 07901 · (908) 273-0817 · Union County
GRADES 01–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL323 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
11.8:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.7:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
11%
37 students
DISTRICT 14% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 1 | 63 | 20% |
| Grade 2 | 64 | 20% |
| Grade 3 | 63 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 55 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 78 | 24% |
This year's 1st grade class (63) is 19% smaller than its 5th grade class (78).
Student demographics
61%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 59% · 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
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NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
90.8%
NJ avg 53.1% . +5.4pp since 2023
Math
85.2%
NJ avg 41.6% . +6.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 91 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 85 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 are up about 7 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 90.8% | 85.2% |
| 2023-24 | 85.4% | 78.7% |
% 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
79.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.9%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+19.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 80% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 60% 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 20 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 Washington Elementary School
Washington Elementary School's state test result (79.6% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington Elementary School this school | 323 | 11.5% | 79.6% |
| Stony Brook School Branchburg | 310 | 10.0% | 59.7% |
| Albert Payson Terhune Elementary WAYNE | 347 | 10.4% | 67.8% |
| John I. Dawes Early Learning Center MANALAPAN | 306 | 14.4% | N/A |
| Frances DeMasi Elementary School MARLTON | 332 | 10.5% | 52.3% |
| East Brook Elementary School PARK RIDGE | 314 | 10.2% | 65.2% |
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 | 79.6% | #38 of 1,290 | #4 of 92 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 85.2% | #35 of 1,319 ▲ 43 | #4 of 93 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 90.8% | #12 of 1,319 ▲ 23 | #1 of 93 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 323 | #1,013 of 1,562 | #76 of 108 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.8:1 | #818 of 1,390 | #37 of 103 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 61.5% | #441 of 1,392 | #25 of 103 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 11.5% | #1,216 of 1,481 | #77 of 105 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.3% | #379 of 798 | #18 of 58 |
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
323
-12 (-4%) vs 2020
+42% since 1990-91, when it was 228
Student : Teacher
11.8:1
was 10.5:1
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 | 323 | 27.5 | 11.8:1 | 11% (37) |
| 2023-24 | 303 | 27 | 11.2:1 | 11% (34) |
| 2022-23 | 310 | 30 | 10.3:1 | 12% (38) |
| 2020-21 | 335 | 32 | 10.5:1 | 13% (43) |
| 2017-18 | 364 | 30 | 12.1:1 | 13% (49) |
| 2015-16 | 350 | 29 | 12.1:1 | 12% (41) |
| 2010-11 | 324 | 22 | 14.7:1 | 15% (50) |
| 2000-01 | 321 | 23 | 14.0:1 | 9% (28) |
| 1990-91 | 228 | 15 | 15.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Washington Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 11% (364 to 323); teachers down 8% (30 to 27.5).
About Washington Elementary School
The public elementary school Washington Elementary School is located in SUMMIT, New Jersey. Students in grades 1 through 5 attend, and enrollment is 323 students. The typical figure for elementary schools in New Jersey is about 405 students.
Summit Public School District operates 9 schools. Combined enrollment is 3,987 students.
At 58%, White students outnumber all other groups at Washington Elementary School combined. Smaller groups are 16% Hispanic, 15% Asian, 8% multiracial, and 4% Black. County-wide, 39% of Union County residents are White. The chance that two students picked at random at Washington Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 61%.
Federal data list 27.5 full-time-equivalent teachers at Washington Elementary School in 2024-25, for a ratio of 11.8:1. Elementary schools in New Jersey have a similar average ratio of 11.4:1. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 11%. It compares with 52% for public schools in Union County.
Compared with New Jersey schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Washington Elementary School does better than predicted by 19.7 points. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 79.6%; the prediction is 59.9%.
County data help place the school in context: in Union County, median household income is about $103,202, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 39%, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. Washington Elementary School is among the 180 public schools in Union County.
The school nearest to Washington Elementary School is Summit High School, at a distance of about 0.4 miles. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Washington Elementary School places 2nd of 8 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
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.
The student count in 2024-25 was 323, 4% below the 335 of 2020-21. Students per teacher rose from 10.5 in 2020-21 to 11.8 in 2024-25.
The allk12 site hosts a discussion page for Washington Elementary School covering things like enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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 Summit Public School District
- Summit High SchoolHigh · 1,198 students
- Lawton C. Johnson Summit Middle SchoolMiddle · 871 students
- Franklin Elementary SchoolElementary · 369 students
- Lincoln-Hubbard Elementary SchoolElementary · 351 students
- Brayton Elementary SchoolElementary · 335 students
- Jefferson Elementary SchoolElementary · 221 students
Other schools in SUMMIT
- Summit High SchoolHigh · 1,198 students
- Lawton C. Johnson Summit Middle SchoolMiddle · 871 students
- Franklin Elementary SchoolElementary · 369 students
- Lincoln-Hubbard Elementary SchoolElementary · 351 students
- Brayton Elementary SchoolElementary · 335 students
- Jefferson Elementary SchoolElementary · 221 students
Other Washington Elementary schools
155 other US public schools in 28 states are named Washington Elementary. Washington Elementary School is the 85th 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
- Summit High School0.4 mi · 1,198
- Lincoln-Hubbard Elementary School0.7 mi · 351
- Primary Center at Wilson0.9 mi · 203
- Lawton C. Johnson Summit Middle School1.1 mi · 871
- Franklin Elementary School1.2 mi · 369
- Washington Avenue School1.2 mi · 286
Frequently asked questions
About Washington Elementary SchoolHow large is Washington Elementary School?
Washington Elementary School enrolls approximately 323 students in grades 01-05.
What grades does Washington Elementary School serve?
Washington Elementary School serves grades 01-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Washington Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Washington Elementary School is approximately 11.8:1 (28 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Washington Elementary School?
At Washington Elementary School, the student body is approximately 58% White, 16% Hispanic, 4% Black, 15% Asian, 8% Two or more.
What district is Washington Elementary School in?
Washington Elementary School is part of Summit Public School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.