Public school / Primary
Benjamin Franklin School No. 13
Elizabeth, New Jersey
- NCES ID
- 340459005506
- District
- Elizabeth Public Schools
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Benjamin Franklin School No. 13 is a public primary school in Elizabeth, New Jersey, run by Elizabeth Public Schools. It enrols 434 students — the 46113th 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
434
Teachers
33.0
Students per teacher
13.2
Free or reduced-price lunch
87.8%
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 Elizabeth 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.
- 1John E. Dwyer Technology Academy1,443 students
- 2Admiral William F. Halsey Jr. Health & Public Safety Academy1,299 students
- 3Elizabeth High School - Frank J Cicarell Academy1,281 students
- 4Terence C. Reilly School No 71,126 students
- 5William F. Halloran School No.221,089 students
- 6Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy1,070 students
- 7Toussaint Louverture-Marquis De Lafayette School No. 61,042 students
- 8Alexander Hamilton Preparatory Academy996 students
- Enrollment−6.8%
- Teachers−13.2%
- Students per teacher+16.8%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+220.4%
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