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Edward V. Walton Primary School

Springfield · Union County · Elementary school
Grades PK–4 · was K in 1998
Page updated · data years vary by section

At a glance

What changed?

These measures follow the same rule on every school page, not a ranking of this school’s biggest changes. Each row names its evidence dates; trend rows do not describe every year in between.

These are descriptive measures from statewide NJDOE datasets, not a quality rating or an explanation of cause. Proficiency, attendance, and graduation figures use All Students; subgroup patterns may differ.

Enrollment, by grade

In 2025-26 it enrolled 430 students across grades PK–4. That is 154 more than in 1998-99 (276) — the school has grown. It peaked at 684 in 2013-14. Its biggest cohort is pre-K.

students 020040060080054321KPK1998200320082013201820232025

Students enrolled in each grade each fall, stacked to the total — so the top edge is total enrollment. Bands run from the lowest grade (light) to the highest (dark); a band that appears or disappears is a grade the school added or dropped. “Other” is students with no grade level (mostly special education), so the bands always sum to total. Source: NJDOE Fall Enrollment.

What the school looks like

The largest group in both 1998-99 and 2025-26 was White students — 87% then, 57% now.

% of students 050100race categories: 5 → 711%16%11%57%1998200320082013201820232025
WhiteBlackHispanicAsianTwo or moreNative 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 barely moved.

That’s the smallest shift among the district’s three elementary schools — smaller than 72% of Union County elementary schools. The biggest moves, in percentage points:
Hispanic −3·Asian +2.5·White +2.1

The index is half the sum of every group’s change in share, on a 0–100 scale (how it works). 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, 11.9% of students were certified for free or reduced-price lunch.

% certified 0102016.3%16.3%11.9%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.

Test scores

On the NJSLA — New Jersey’s state test — here is how students have scored over recent years and by grade. (New Jersey reports student-growth scores only through grade 8, so they are not available for high schools.)

1 · did not meet2 · partially met3 · approached4 · met5 · exceeded

English language arts: 55.7% met or exceeded expectations in 2024-25 (state 53%).

ELA — NJDOE-published school-wide All Students rows, not calculated from grade panels.
School yearMet or exceededValid scoresTest participationNJ statewide
2021-22Not reported — Fewer than 10 valid scoresNot reported — Fewer than 10 valid scoresNot reported — Fewer than 10 valid scores49.0%
2022-23Not reported — Fewer than 10 valid scoresNot reported — Fewer than 10 valid scoresNot reported — Fewer than 10 valid scores51.3%
2023-24Not reported — Fewer than 10 valid scoresNot reported — Fewer than 10 valid scoresNot reported — Fewer than 10 valid scores52.2%
2024-2555.7%70100.0%53.0%

Source: NJDOE 2024-25 school-detail workbook (330 MB). How this data works →

By grade, year to year

Each panel is one grade — watch its mix of levels shift across 2021–2024.

Grade 3
withheld20212024

Math: 67.1% met or exceeded expectations in 2024-25 (state 42%).

Math — NJDOE-published school-wide All Students rows, not calculated from grade panels.
School yearMet or exceededValid scoresTest participationNJ statewide
2021-22Not reported — Fewer than 10 valid scoresNot reported — Fewer than 10 valid scoresNot reported — Fewer than 10 valid scores36.0%
2022-23Not reported — Fewer than 10 valid scoresNot reported — Fewer than 10 valid scoresNot reported — Fewer than 10 valid scores38.2%
2023-24Not reported — Fewer than 10 valid scoresNot reported — Fewer than 10 valid scoresNot reported — Fewer than 10 valid scores40.2%
2024-2567.1%70100.0%42.0%

Source: NJDOE 2024-25 school-detail workbook (330 MB). How this data works →

By grade, year to year

Each panel is one grade — watch its mix of levels shift across 2021–2024.

Grade 3
withheld20212024

In each panel the flat line is the proficiency boundary: levels 4–5 (met or exceeded) fill the area above it, levels 1–3 below — so a smaller reported share in levels 4–5 makes the area above the line shrink (it isn’t a misleading upward slope). Light = level 1 (did not yet meet expectations), dark = level 5 (exceeded); the % marks the proficient share at the first and last points. The first set of panels follows each grade across the years; the second lines up aggregate grade results one grade higher each year. It approximates a class cohort, not linked individual students. Growth is the median Student Growth Percentile (50 = a typical year), reported only through grade 8. The NJSLA was not given in spring 2020 and was disrupted the next year. Source: NJ School Performance Reports.

Chronic absenteeism

In 2024-25, 13.5% of students were chronically absent — missing at least 10% of school days — up from 8.1% in 2016-17.

% chronically absent 01020notcollectedthis year14.4%13.5%12.9%20162018202020222024
This schooldistrict overallNew Jersey

† New Jersey says these years are not comparable with the ones beside them

  • 2020-21 — in-person and remote days differed. The requirement to report status in meeting annual ESSA targets for 2020-2021 was waived. As a result, NJDOE will not report state averages and whether state averages were met for 2020-2021. Additionally, because the number of days students spent in in-person and remote learning environments during the school year differed, the NJDOE recommends caution in comparing 2020-2021 attendance data between schools and districts and to prior or future school years. NJDOE 2020-21 workbook notes sheet.

2019-20 is blank because New Jersey collected no attendance data that year, not because nobody was absent. The requirement to report on chronic absenteeism and related accountability measures for the 2019-2020 school year was waived. As a result, NJDOE will not report on chronic absenteeism and other attendance data for 2019-2020. Tables showing attendance data will be hidden in the 2019-2020 reports. NJDOE 2019-20 workbook notes sheet.

Chronic absenteeism — the share of students who missed 10% or more of the days they were enrolled (roughly 18 days across a full school year). The lighter lines show the district overall and New Jersey, for comparison. The current workbook publishes four years of this measure; the years before them come from each earlier year’s own workbook, which publish the same figures wherever the two overlap. The statewide line starts in 2021-22, because that is the first edition in which NJDOE printed a statewide rate beside each school’s own. Points from 2018-19 and earlier are matched to this school by its state code; New Jersey’s organization record only reaches back to 2020-08-11, so for those years the code is verified and the identity behind it is not. Source: NJ School Performance Reports, 2015-16 through 2024-25.

How the state has judged this school

2021-22 – 2024-25 · the ESSA record

New Jersey’s ESSA calculation workbooks carry a row for Edward V. Walton Primary School, but no summative rating in any of them. What the workbooks did publish about it is below.

The workbook rows here, 2021-22 to 2024-25, carry no rating at all.

Every ESSA accountability workbook that carries a row for Edward V. Walton Primary School, most recent first, exactly as NJDOE published it.
School yearPercentile in groupSummative scoreNJDOE’s groupIdentification
2024-25Not ranked this yearElementaryNot an identification year
2023-24Not ranked this yearElementaryNot an identification year
2022-23Not ranked this yearElementaryNo comprehensive or targeted status published for this school
2021-22Not ranked this yearElementaryNo comprehensive or targeted status published for this school

Inside 2024-25 · what produced the most recent rating

New Jersey did not publish a summative score for this school for 2024-25. Its row in the calculation workbook is marked N/A - Not an Identification Year, and the score, the percentile and every indicator weight are blank. The indicator results the workbook did publish are below; none of them was scored or ranked.

Every indicator NJDOE applied to this school, exactly as the 2024-25 workbook published it.
IndicatorResultIndicator scoreWeightPoints
ELA proficiencystudents who met or exceeded expectations on the state ELA test55.7%55.59
Math proficiencystudents who met or exceeded expectations on the state math test67.1%80.25
ELA growththe school’s median student growth percentile in ELANot published
Math growththe school’s median student growth percentile in mathNot published
Progress toward English proficiencyNJDOE’s published Progress Toward ELP rate, for English learnersNot published
Students not chronically absentstudents who were not chronically absent — 100 minus the chronic-absenteeism rate, so a higher number is better86.5%31.37

Four-year graduation rate, Five-year graduation rate, Six-year graduation rate, High school persistence are not part of the calculation for a school NJDOE groups as Elementary.

NJDOE’s Targeted Summary published no student-group flag for this school for 2026-27.

These are policy-defined values: which indicators count, and how much each counts, is set by New Jersey’s ESSA plan, not by any measure of school quality. The weights are specific to this school — an indicator that drops out shifts weight onto the rest, so the same indicator is worth different points at different schools. The workbooks measure 2024-25 and were published on April 2, 2026; 2024-25 was not a year New Jersey identified schools for comprehensive or targeted support, so these files carry no CSI or ATSI status. These weights are 2024-25’s: the indicator set and the weighting have both moved across the eight editions above, and for some school types they moved in this one. Row 2024_25_Accountability_Workbook_File_Comprehensive_Support_and_Improvement.xlsx#Summative!2062:AU of the workbook, and the method in NJDOE’s accountability technical guide.

How the ESSA record works →

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