Ann Street School

Set in NEWARK, New Jersey, Ann Street School is an expansive elementary school, run under Newark Public School District. It works with 1,294 students across grades K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 405 students per school, that is 220% above typical.

Newark Public School District comprises 65 schools with combined enrollment of 41,502 students; Ann Street School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Ann Street School shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 73% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 25% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 25%.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 80 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting Ann Street School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 83% of students at Ann Street School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Essex County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Ann Street School ranks in the top 10% of New Jersey public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 20.6%; Ann Street School posts 39.0%, +18.3 points above that line.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Essex County put the typical household earns roughly $80,789 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Ann Street School is one of 249 public schools in Essex County (combined enrollment of about 145,473 students).

Ironbound Academy Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Ann Street School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Ann Street School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 31.3%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Looking at the recent track record. Ann Street School's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 1,276 (now 1,294). Over the same period, the White share fell from 36% to 25%.

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