Winfield Scott School No. 2

Winfield Scott School No. 2 is one of the sprawling primary schools in ELIZABETH, New Jersey, one of the schools within Elizabeth Public Schools, with 630 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 56% above the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 405 students.

Across the 37 schools in Elizabeth Public Schools (27,580 students total), Winfield Scott School No. 2 accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Winfield Scott School No. 2 records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 58%; the rest breaks down as 36% Black, 4% White, 2% Asian. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 35%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Winfield Scott School No. 2 has 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.1:1. The state averages about 11.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 82% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Union County (around 52%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Winfield Scott School No. 2 performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.1%, the actual is 16.0%, a residual of -5.1 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Union County indicate the typical household earns roughly $103,202 per year, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Union County runs 180 public schools (combined enrollment of about 99,046 students), of which Winfield Scott School No. 2 is one.

Nearest neighbor: Elizabeth High School - Frank J Cicarell Academy, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Winfield Scott School No. 2 comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 27.6%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 9%: 695 students in 2018 compared to 630 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 48% to 58% over that span.

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