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Enrollment
630
Elementary
DISTRICT 639 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ELIZABETH PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 340459005494
Winfield Scott School No. 2
125 MADISON AVE, ELIZABETH, NJ 07201 · (908) 436-6150 · Union County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL630 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 8% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats 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
12.1:1
52 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.5:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
82%
519 students
DISTRICT 83% · 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 | 75 | 12% |
| Kindergarten | 66 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 83 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 53 | 8% |
| Grade 3 | 62 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 57 | 9% |
| Grade 5 | 53 | 8% |
| Grade 6 | 57 | 9% |
| Grade 7 | 59 | 9% |
| Grade 8 | 65 | 10% |
This year's kindergarten class (66) is about the same size as its 8th grade class (65).
Student demographics
53%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 38% · 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
27.0%
NJ avg 53.1% . +1.7pp since 2023
Math
14.7%
NJ avg 41.6% . +4.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 27 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 15 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 27.0% | 14.7% |
| 2023-24 | 25.3% | 10.1% |
% 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
16.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
21.1%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 16% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 21% 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 Winfield Scott School No. 2
Winfield Scott School No. 2's state test result (16.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winfield Scott School No. 2 this school | 630 | 82.4% | 16.0% |
| Leeds Avenue Elementary School PLEASANTVILLE | 570 | 84.7% | 19.4% |
| Florence Avenue Elementary School IRVINGTON | 694 | 86.6% | 14.9% |
| Robert Treat Academy Charter School NEWARK | 702 | 79.1% | 51.5% |
| Lindenwold School Five LINDENWOLD | 596 | 80.5% | 26.4% |
| George Washington Academy School No. 1 ELIZABETH | 595 | 87.6% | 23.8% |
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 Winfield Scott School No. 2 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Union County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 16.0% | #1,185 of 1,290 | #88 of 92 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 14.7% | #1,222 of 1,319 ▲ 27 | #91 of 93 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 27.0% | #1,152 of 1,319 ▼ 9 | #82 of 93 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 630 | #181 of 1,562 | #24 of 108 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.1:1 | #911 of 1,390 | #52 of 103 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 53.3% | #712 of 1,392 | #48 of 103 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 82.4% | #184 of 1,481 | #31 of 105 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.4% | #452 of 798 | #24 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
630
-5 (-1%) vs 2020
+41% since 1990-91, when it was 447
Student : Teacher
12.1:1
was 10.6:1
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 | 630 | 52 | 12.1:1 | 82% (519) |
| 2023-24 | 620 | 52 | 11.9:1 | 84% (522) |
| 2022-23 | 637 | 54.5 | 11.7:1 | 81% (516) |
| 2020-21 | 635 | 60 | 10.6:1 | 66% (419) |
| 2017-18 | 695 | 58.5 | 11.9:1 | 85% (592) |
| 2015-16 | 680 | 51 | 13.3:1 | 90% (614) |
| 2010-11 | 593 | 54 | 11.0:1 | 88% (519) |
| 2000-01 | 443 | 34 | 13.0:1 | 84% (371) |
| 1990-91 | 447 | 26 | 17.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Winfield Scott School No. 2.
Since 2017-18: students down 9% (695 to 630); teachers down 11% (58.5 to 52).
About Winfield Scott School No. 2
Winfield Scott School No. 2 is one of the public schools in ELIZABETH, New Jersey. It is a large elementary school. Its enrollment is 630 students, spread over pre-K through 8. That compares with an average of about 405 students for elementary schools in New Jersey.
Elizabeth Public Schools runs 37 schools with a combined 27,580 students. Winfield Scott School No. 2 is one of them.
The share of Hispanic students at Winfield Scott School No. 2 is 58%, a majority. The school is also 36% Black, 4% White, and 2% Asian. That is higher than the 35% Hispanic share among all Union County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 53%.
There are about 12.1 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at Winfield Scott School No. 2, which has 52. It is about the same as the 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 82%. That is higher than the 52% average for public schools in Union County.
Among New Jersey public elementary schools, Winfield Scott School No. 2 outscored 8%, which works out to a D on the allk12 Grade.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Winfield Scott School No. 2 falls in the middle 80% of New Jersey schools: 16.0% actual against 21.1% predicted.
For the population of Union County, the median household earns about $103,202 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 39% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 7%. Winfield Scott School No. 2 shares Union County with 179 other public schools.
Elizabeth High School - Frank J Cicarell Academy is less than a tenth of a mile from Winfield Scott School No. 2, the shortest distance to any other public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among the 9 closest schools with test data, this one included, Winfield Scott School No. 2 ranks 7th on average proficiency.
Under the NCES locale system, Winfield Scott School No. 2 is Suburb: Large.
Enrollment has been fairly stable: 635 in 2020-21 and 630 in 2024-25. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio increased from 10.6:1 to 12.1:1.
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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 Elizabeth Public Schools
- John E. Dwyer Technology AcademyHigh · 1,348 students
- Admiral William F. Halsey Jr. Health & Public Safety AcademyHigh · 1,272 students
- Elizabeth High School - Frank J Cicarell AcademyHigh · 1,268 students
- Thomas Jefferson Arts AcademyHigh · 1,144 students
- William F. Halloran School No.22Middle · 1,140 students
- Terence C. Reilly School No 7Middle · 1,130 students
Other schools in ELIZABETH
- John E. Dwyer Technology AcademyHigh · 1,348 students
- Admiral William F. Halsey Jr. Health & Public Safety AcademyHigh · 1,272 students
- Elizabeth High School - Frank J Cicarell AcademyHigh · 1,268 students
- Thomas Jefferson Arts AcademyHigh · 1,144 students
- William F. Halloran School No.22Middle · 1,140 students
- Terence C. Reilly School No 7Middle · 1,130 students
Nearby schools
- Elizabeth High School - Frank J Cicarell Academy0.1 mi · 1,268
- Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy0.2 mi · 1,144
- Admiral William F. Halsey Jr. Health & Public Safety Academy0.4 mi · 1,272
- John E. Dwyer Technology Academy0.4 mi · 1,348
- K. Johnson D. Vaughan and M. Jackson STEM Academy0.6 mi · 740
- Nicholas S. Lacorte-Peterstown School No. 30.6 mi · 765
Frequently asked questions
About Winfield Scott School No. 2What is the total enrollment at Winfield Scott School No. 2?
Winfield Scott School No. 2 enrolls approximately 630 students in grades PK-08.
What grades does Winfield Scott School No. 2 serve?
Winfield Scott School No. 2 serves grades PK-08.
How many students per teacher at Winfield Scott School No. 2?
Approximately 12.1:1 students per teacher at Winfield Scott School No. 2.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Winfield Scott School No. 2?
At Winfield Scott School No. 2, the student body is approximately 4% White, 58% Hispanic, 36% Black, 2% Asian.
Is Winfield Scott School No. 2 public or private?
Winfield Scott School No. 2 is a public K-12 school, overseen by Elizabeth Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.