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Enrollment
1,203
Elementary
DISTRICT 671 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BAYONNE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340126000001
William Shemin Midtown Community School #8
550 AVENUE A, BAYONNE, NJ 07002 · (201) 858-5984 · Hudson County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,203 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 62% 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.
- 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
11.6:1
104 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.2:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
75%
898 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 | 110 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 114 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 126 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 102 | 8% |
| Grade 3 | 122 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 112 | 9% |
| Grade 5 | 127 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 127 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 125 | 10% |
| Grade 8 | 138 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (114) is 17% smaller than its 8th grade class (138).
Student demographics
70%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
53.0%
NJ avg 53.1% . +8.0pp since 2023
Math
32.4%
NJ avg 41.6% . +2.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 32 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 53.0% | 32.4% |
| 2023-24 | 45.0% | 29.7% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
39.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.3%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+13.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 39% 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 William Shemin Midtown Community School #8
William Shemin Midtown Community School #8's state test result (39.1% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| William Shemin Midtown Community School #8 this school | 1,203 | 74.6% | 39.1% |
| Walter F. Robinson Community School BAYONNE | 924 | 68.0% | 34.6% |
| Joseph H. Brensinger School JERSEY CITY | 926 | 86.0% | 32.3% |
| Cold Springs School GLOUCESTER CITY | 839 | 65.9% | 29.7% |
| George L. Hess Educational Complex MAYS LANDING | 1,315 | 61.8% | 27.3% |
| Woodrow Wilson Community School BAYONNE | 740 | 67.4% | 36.2% |
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 William Shemin Midtown Community School #8 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Hudson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 39.1% | #772 of 1,290 | #36 of 84 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 32.4% | #925 of 1,319 ▲ 12 | #50 of 84 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 53.0% | #631 of 1,319 ▲ 152 | #25 of 84 ▲ 17 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,203 | #5 of 1,562 | #1 of 88 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.6:1 | #762 of 1,390 | #47 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.9% | #155 of 1,392 | #20 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 74.6% | #294 of 1,481 | #38 of 88 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +2.0% | #472 of 545 | #19 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
1,203
-27 (-2%) vs 2020
+14% since 2000-01, when it was 1,053
Student : Teacher
11.6:1
was 14.5:1
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 | 1,203 | 104 | 11.6:1 | 75% (898) |
| 2023-24 | 1,235 | 93 | 13.3:1 | 71% (881) |
| 2022-23 | 1,210 | 96 | 12.6:1 | 68% (820) |
| 2020-21 | 1,230 | 85 | 14.5:1 | 62% (760) |
| 2017-18 | 1,179 | 84 | 14.0:1 | 72% (851) |
| 2015-16 | 1,150 | 78 | 14.7:1 | 74% (853) |
| 2010-11 | 1,046 | 59 | 17.7:1 | 69% (720) |
| 2000-01 | 1,053 | 68 | 15.5:1 | 46% (485) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for William Shemin Midtown Community School #8.
Since 2017-18: students up 2% (1,179 to 1,203); teachers up 24% (84 to 104).
About William Shemin Midtown Community School #8
William Shemin Midtown Community School #8 is a large elementary school. Its address is in BAYONNE, New Jersey. The school teaches pre-K through 8 and enrolls 1,203 students. The school is 197% bigger than the average for elementary schools in New Jersey.
Bayonne School District oversees William Shemin Midtown Community School #8 and 12 other schools, with 10,325 students in total.
White students make up 40% of enrollment at William Shemin Midtown Community School #8, the largest share of any group. The rest of enrollment is 33% Hispanic, 17% Black, 6% Asian, and 4% multiracial. Census estimates put the White share of Hudson County's population at about 32%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 70, compared with 70 nationally.
The student-to-teacher ratio at William Shemin Midtown Community School #8 is 11.6:1, based on 104 full-time-equivalent teachers. The ratio is within a point of the 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey. William Shemin Midtown Community School #8 counts 75% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
William Shemin Midtown Community School #8 earns a B on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 62% of New Jersey public elementary schools.
Schools in New Jersey with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 25.3%. William Shemin Midtown Community School #8 scores 39.1%.
In Hudson County, the median household earns about $91,795 a year, about 49% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 11% of residents are in poverty. Hudson County has 130 public schools with about 86,216 students, including William Shemin Midtown Community School #8.
William Shemin Midtown Community School #8's nearest public school is Philip G. Vroom Community School (about 0.3 miles). The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. William Shemin Midtown Community School #8 is 6th of 8 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
For locale, NCES codes William Shemin Midtown Community School #8 as Suburb: Large.
Compared with 2020-21, when it had 1,230 students, enrollment in 2024-25 was about the same at 1,203. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio dropped to 11.6:1, from 14.5:1.
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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 Bayonne School District
- Bayonne High SchoolHigh · 2,830 students
- Walter F. Robinson Community SchoolElementary · 924 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
- Walter F. Robinson Community SchoolElementary · 924 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
- Philip G. Vroom Community School0.3 mi · 433
- Bayonne Alternative High School0.4 mi · 109
- Bayonne High School0.4 mi · 2,830
- Nicholas Oresko Community School0.5 mi · 388
- Walter F. Robinson Community School0.5 mi · 924
- Lincoln Community School #50.7 mi · 497
Frequently asked questions
About William Shemin Midtown Community School #8What is the total enrollment at William Shemin Midtown Community School #8?
William Shemin Midtown Community School #8 enrolls approximately 1,203 students in grades PK-08.
What grades does William Shemin Midtown Community School #8 serve?
William Shemin Midtown Community School #8 serves grades PK-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at William Shemin Midtown Community School #8?
The student-to-teacher ratio at William Shemin Midtown Community School #8 is approximately 11.6:1 (104 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at William Shemin Midtown Community School #8?
At William Shemin Midtown Community School #8, the student body is approximately 40% White, 33% Hispanic, 17% Black, 6% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is William Shemin Midtown Community School #8 in?
William Shemin Midtown Community School #8 is part of Bayonne School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.