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Peterson Elem

Perth Amboy City · Middlesex County · Elementary school
Grades K · was K–4 in 1998
Last reported enrollment in 2003-04 — no longer in the data since.
Page updated · data years vary by section

At a glance

What changed?

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Enrollment, by grade

In its last year on record, 2003-04, it enrolled 285 students in kindergarten only. That is 22 fewer than in 1998-99 (307) — the school had shrunk. It peaked at 386 in 2001-02. Its biggest cohort is kindergarten.

students 0100200300400OtherK1998200320082013201820232025

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 2003-04 was Hispanic students — 84% then, 89% now.

% of students 050100race categories: 5 → 789%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 1999-00 and 2003-04 the makeup of this school shifted noticeably.

That’s the largest shift among the district’s six elementary schools — smaller than 69% of Middlesex County elementary schools. The biggest moves, in percentage points:
Black −6.4·Hispanic +3.8·Asian +1.4

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 2003-04, 88.1% of students were certified for free or reduced-price lunch.

% certified 05010088.1%84.6%80.9%19982003
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.

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