Public school / Primary
Central Elementary School
Orange, New Jersey
- NCES ID
- 341227003507
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Central Elementary School is a public primary school in Orange, New Jersey, run by Orange Board of Education School District. It enrols 345 students — the 59170th 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
345
Teachers
23.0
Students per teacher
15.0
Free or reduced-price lunch
86.7%
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 Orange Board of Education School District
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.
- 1Orange High School1,265 students
- 2Lincoln Avenue Elementary School692 students
- 3Rosa Parks Community School534 students
- 4Orange Preparatory Academy School of Inquiry and Innovation414 students
- 5Park Avenue Elementary School387 students
- 6Forest Street Community Elementary School375 students
- 7Heywood Avenue Elementary School367 students
- 8Central Elementary School345 students
- Enrollment−25.9%
- Teachers−39.5%
- Students per teacher+32.7%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+216.4%
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