Elementary · New Jersey
Gordon Parks Academy
Free meals for allGordon Parks Academy, a public elementary school in East Orange, New Jersey: grades pre-k–2, 268 students, 14.1 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of East Orange School District.
Size and class size
Compared with elementary schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 268
- Teachers (FTE)
- 19.0
- Students per teacher
- 14.1
- Grades
- Pre-K–2
- Elementary
More students per teacher than 89% of elementary schools in New Jersey
Median 11.2 · 1,493 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 55% of elementary schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 50,575 schools compared
Smaller than 81% of elementary schools in New Jersey
Median 386 · 1,494 schools compared
Smaller than 78% of elementary schools in the US
Median 415 · 51,933 schools compared
State test results
No state test results published for this school: state tests cover grades 3–8, and small groups are not published.
What it offers
- Grades
- Elementary · Grades Pre-K–2
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Large suburb
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with East Orange School District.
Location
- Address
- 98 Greenwood Ave, East Orange, NJ 07017
- Phone
- (973)266-5950
- City or town
- East Orange
- County
- Essex County
Nearby elementary schools
The closest public elementary schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
Mildred Barry Garvin ElementaryFree meals for all | 3–5 | 245 | 12.3 |
| K–4 | 285 | 11.9 | |
Cicely L. Tyson Community Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | Pre-K–5 | 481 | 13.7 |
Dionne Warwick InstituteFree meals for all | Pre-K–5 | 379 | 13.1 |
Shelia Y. Oliver AcademyFree meals for all | Pre-K–8 | 413 | 13.8 |
| Pre-K–8 | 690 | 14.4 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level; state test results are compared only within a state.
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