Public school / Primary
J. Garfield Jackson Sr. Academy
East Orange, New Jersey
- NCES ID
- 340423005901
- District
- East Orange School District
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
J. Garfield Jackson Sr. Academy is a public primary school in East Orange, New Jersey, run by East Orange School District. It enrols 253 students — the 71920th 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
253
Teachers
18.0
Students per teacher
14.1
Free or reduced-price lunch
71.5%
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 East Orange 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.
- 1East Orange Campus High School1,748 students
- 2Cicely L. Tyson Community Middle/High School711 students
- 3East Orange STEM Academy High School568 students
- 4Langston Hughes Elementary School551 students
- 5Edward T. Bowser Sr. School of Excellence520 students
- 6Benjamin Banneker Academy502 students
- 7Cicely L. Tyson Community Elementary School469 students
- 8Shelia Y. Oliver Academy443 students
- Enrollment−45.6%
- Teachers−52.6%
- Students per teacher+24.8%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+160.9%
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