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Bruce Street School

Newark · Essex County · Elementary school
Grades PK–8 · was PK–11 in 2023
Page updated · data years vary by section

At a glance

What changed?

This page does not have enough comparable recent data to summarize more than one measure. Start with enrollment evidence →

Enrollment over time

In 2025-26 it enrolled 28 students. That is 21 fewer than in 1998-99 (49) — the school has shrunk. It peaked at 76 in 2004-05.

students 020406080 281998200320082013201820232025

Total students enrolled each fall. Source: NJDOE Fall Enrollment.

What the school looks like

In 1998-99, 65% of students were Black. By 2025-26 the largest group was Hispanic, at 75%.

% of students 050100race categories: 5 → 775%25%1998200320082013201820232025
WhiteBlackHispanicAsianNative Am.

Each group’s share of enrollment over time, or its head count — toggle above. New Jersey expanded race and ethnicity reporting from five to seven categories in 2006-07 (dashed line), so “two or more races” appears only after; Asian here includes Pacific Islander. Source: NJDOE Fall Enrollment.

How much the mix changed

Between 2021-22 and 2025-26 the makeup of this school changed substantially.

That’s the largest shift among the district’s three elementary schools — larger than 97% of Essex County elementary schools. The district as a whole shifted just 8.1 over the same years, making this school an outlier. The biggest moves, in percentage points:
Hispanic +16.9·Black −14.5·Native Am. −2.3

The index is half the sum of every group’s change in share, on a 0–100 scale (how it works). At a school this small, a few students moving can swing the index a lot. It is computed from the same counts as the makeup chart above — source: NJDOE Fall Enrollment. Compare any two years in the explorer →

Free or reduced-price lunch

In 2025-26, 82.1% of students were certified for free or reduced-price lunch.

% certified 05010082.1%81.8%77.5%1998200320082013201820232025
This schooldistrict overalldistrict elementary schools

Share of students certified for free or reduced-price meals, through a household application or an automatic match. The lighter lines show the district overall and the district elementary schools, for comparison. Some districts serve free meals to every student under the Community Eligibility Provision. Those districts often stop collecting household income forms, so their reported share can run below the number of low-income students they enroll. Source: NJDOE Fall Enrollment.

How the state has judged this school

The waiver record. Annual editions between 2012 and 2016, most recent first. Read each band against itself and not against the others — the state changed what it measured, and how, twice inside those five years.

New Jersey’s ESEA Flexibility waiver ended after the 2016 edition, and the archive bundles for 2017 and 2018 return 404 on every build of the source release. That bounds the waiver record; it says nothing about the ESSA record above, which runs from 2016-17 without a break the state did not itself declare.

2012 – 2014 · progress targets, on NJASK and HSPA

Each group large enough to score was measured against a progress target set for it individually, on NJASK and HSPA. These three years are comparable with each other. Most cells are empty by design — a group below the state’s minimum size got no determination at all. YES* never means the target was met. In these editions it marks a group that missed the printed target and was credited inside a 95% confidence interval, and it appears in the performance column.

2013 final

New Jersey labelled this edition final. A dash means the group was below the state’s own minimum size — 40 students for participation, 30 for performance — so nothing was determined for it at all.

What New Jersey determined about Bruce Street School in the 2013 edition, group by group and subject by subject, exactly as it printed it.
Student groupEnglish Language ArtsMathematics
Participation% proficientPerformanceParticipation% proficientPerformance
SchoolwideToo few students -0%1 scoredToo few students to determine -Too few students -0%1 scoredToo few students to determine -
American IndianToo few students -0%0 scoredToo few students to determine -Too few students -0%0 scoredToo few students to determine -
AsianToo few students -0%0 scoredToo few students to determine -Too few students -0%0 scoredToo few students to determine -
BlackToo few students -0%0 scoredToo few students to determine -Too few students -0%0 scoredToo few students to determine -
Economically DisadvantagedToo few students -0%1 scoredToo few students to determine -Too few students -0%1 scoredToo few students to determine -
HispanicToo few students -0%1 scoredToo few students to determine -Too few students -0%1 scoredToo few students to determine -
Limited English ProficiencyToo few students -0%0 scoredToo few students to determine -Too few students -0%0 scoredToo few students to determine -
Students with DisabilitiesToo few students -0%1 scoredToo few students to determine -Too few students -0%1 scoredToo few students to determine -
Two or More RacesToo few students -0%0 scoredToo few students to determine -Too few students -0%0 scoredToo few students to determine -
WhiteToo few students -0%0 scoredToo few students to determine -Too few students -0%0 scoredToo few students to determine -

Attendance, grades 3 through 8. New Jersey asked whether this school’s 2012 attendance rate reached 90%, once for the whole school and not by student group. It met it — the page prints YES, Met.

The waiver determinations are what New Jersey printed on this school’s annual ESEA accountability profile, kept exactly as printed and corrected from nothing. Each edition’s glyphs are read against that edition’s own legend, because the same asterisk means different things in different years. Editions this school does not appear in are simply absent here; no year is inferred from its neighbours. Source: NJDOE’s Title I accountability archive, 2012–2016.

How the 2012–2016 waiver record works →

Profile built from New Jersey Department of Education Fall Enrollment data, 1998-99 through 2025-26. How this data works →