Public school / Primary
Alfred Zampella School
Jersey City, New Jersey
- NCES ID
- 340783002812
- District
- Jersey City Public Schools
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Alfred Zampella School is a public primary school in Jersey City, New Jersey, run by Jersey City Public Schools. It enrols 802 students — the 14169th largest of 2,585 public schools in New Jersey.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
802
Teachers
57.0
Students per teacher
14.1
Free or reduced-price lunch
52.4%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Jersey City Public Schools
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1William L Dickinson High School2,024 students
- 2James J Ferris High School1,348 students
- 3Joseph H. Brensinger School1,092 students
- 4Mahatma K. Gandhi School1,001 students
- 5Cornelia F. Bradford School962 students
- 6Lincoln High School942 students
- 7Christa Mcauliffe School918 students
- 8Franklin L. Williams School854 students
- Enrollment+72.3%
- Teachers+50.0%
- Students per teacher+24.8%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+91.2%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory