Schools · Elizabeth
Elizabeth, NJ schools
Elizabeth’s public schools score well below New Jersey’s averages: 33% of students are proficient in reading against 47.3% statewide, and 82% of high schoolers graduate on time against 91.1%. Kids attend one of 24 schools through grade 8, then one of 26 middle schools and one of 8 high schools.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
TownTapestry School GradeNew
D
Elizabeth’s School Grade: D
The public schools Elizabeth’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 89% of New Jersey’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
DTest scoresDGraduation
New Jersey school districts we grade (645)Better than 11%
Lower resultsHigher results
New Jersey towns with similar household incomes (159)Better than 18%
High confidence. Built on 13,390 tested students and a graduating class of 2,011; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change the grade.
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on New Jersey’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of New Jersey only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
- Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in New Jersey with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
School path
Where Elizabeth kids go to school
Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Test scores · 2020–21
Well below the state in reading
Reading (grades PK–12, Elizabeth City)33%
State average 47.3%
Math (grades PK–12, Elizabeth City)9%
State average 25.4%
Graduation · class of 2020
82% graduate on time
Graduation rate
82%
NJ: 91.1%
Graduating class
2,011
students
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years. #360 of 384 NJ towns →
Districts
The district serving Elizabeth
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Every school
All 42 schools in Elizabeth
Showing 1–30 of 42 schools
Toussaint L'Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6Elementary · Grades PK–8 · 1,001 students
DPublicDr. Antonia Pantoja School No. 27Elementary · Grades PK–8 · 934 students
C-PublicJuan Pablo Duarte - Jose Julian Marti School No 28Elementary · Grades PK–8 · 878 students
DPublicJerome Dunn Academy No 9Elementary · Grades K–8 · 856 students
DPublicAbraham Lincoln School No. 14Elementary · Grades K–8 · 793 students
DPublicDr. Albert Einstein Academy School No. 29Elementary · Grades PK–8 · 785 students
C-PublicMabel G. Holmes School No. 5Elementary · Grades PK–8 · 767 students
DPublicNicholas S. Lacorte-Peterstown School No. 3Elementary · Grades K–8 · 765 students
DPublicJoseph Battin School No 4Elementary · Grades PK–8 · 757 students
C-PublicChessie Dentley Roberts Academy School No. 30Elementary · Grades PK–8 · 729 students
C-PublicDr. Orlando Edreira Academy School No. 26Elementary · Grades PK–8 · 718 students
C-PublicChristopher Columbus School No. 15Elementary · Grades K–8 · 672 students
DPublicNicholas Murray Butler Academy School No. 23Elementary · Grades K–8 · 667 students
DPublicElmora School No. 12Elementary · Grades PK–8 · 658 students
C-PublicMadison Monroe School No. 16Elementary · Grades PK–8 · 644 students
C-PublicVictor Mravlag School No. 21Elementary · Grades PK–8 · 634 students
C+PublicWinfield Scott School No. 2Elementary · Grades PK–8 · 630 students
DPublicGeorge Washington Academy School No. 1Elementary · Grades PK–8 · 595 students
DPublicSonia Sotomayor School No 25Elementary · Grades K–8 · 591 students
DPublicWoodrow Wilson School No. 19Elementary · Grades PK–8 · 563 students
C-PublicRobert Morris School No. 18Elementary · Grades K–8 · 471 students
DPublicJohn Marshal School No. 20Elementary · Grades K–8 · 452 students
DPubliciPrep Academy School No 8Elementary · Grades K–8 · 397 students
DPublicBenjamin Franklin School No. 13Elementary · Grades K–8 · 392 students
DPublicWilliam F. Halloran School No.22Middle · Grades 2–8 · 1,140 students
A-PublicTerence C. Reilly School No 7Middle · Grades 2–8 · 1,130 students
B+PublicJohn E. Dwyer Technology AcademyHigh · Grades 9–12 · 1,348 students
DPublicAdmiral William F. Halsey Jr. Health & Public Safety AcademyHigh · Grades 9–12 · 1,272 students
DPublicElizabeth High School - Frank J Cicarell AcademyHigh · Grades 9–12 · 1,268 students
A-PublicThomas Jefferson Arts AcademyHigh · Grades 9–12 · 1,144 students
CPublicSchool data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.