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Sir Isaac Newton Elementary School

Newark · Essex County · Elementary school
Grades PK–6 · was 5–8 in 2003
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 over time

In 2025-26 it enrolled 257 students. That is 286 fewer than in 1998-99 (543) — the school has shrunk. It peaked at 744 in 2002-03.

students 0200400600800 2571998200320082013201820232025

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

What the school looks like

The largest group in both 1998-99 and 2025-26 was Black students — 94% then, 66% now.

% of students 050100race categories: 5 → 726%66%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 shifted noticeably.

That’s the second-largest shift among the district’s three elementary schools — larger than 88% 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:
Black −13.4·Hispanic +6·Two or more +4.3

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, 75.1% of students were certified for free or reduced-price lunch.

% certified 050100notreported81.8%77.5%75.1%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. Years the state did not report are shaded. 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

Growth measures how much students progressed over the year against peers who scored the same the year before — 50 is a typical year. In 2024-25, this school’s median growth percentile was 41 in English and 48 in math — NJ calls this “typical” growth.

median student growth percentile · 50 = typical50ELA41Math48
1 · did not meet2 · partially met3 · approached4 · met5 · exceeded

English language arts: 57.1% met or exceeded expectations in 2024-25 (state 53%), up from 46.2% in 2022-23.

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%
2022-2346.2%13100.0%51.3%
2023-2454.5%33100.0%52.2%
2024-2557.1%63100.0%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
50%55%20212024
Grade 4
71%53%20212024
Grade 5
withheld20212024

By grade cohort, lined up across years

Each panel lines up aggregate grade results one grade higher each year. It approximates a class cohort, but does not track individual students; enrollment can change.

Grade 3 in 2022 → Grade 5 in 2024
50%65%Grade 3Grade 5

Math: 42.9% met or exceeded expectations in 2024-25 (state 42%), up from 30.8% in 2022-23.

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%
2022-2330.8%13100.0%38.2%
2023-2430.3%33100.0%40.2%
2024-2542.9%63100.0%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
31%45%20212024
Grade 4
35%20%20212024
Grade 5
withheld20212024

By grade cohort, lined up across years

Each panel lines up aggregate grade results one grade higher each year. It approximates a class cohort, but does not track individual students; enrollment can change.

Grade 3 in 2022 → Grade 5 in 2024
31%50%Grade 3Grade 5

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, 10.1% of students were chronically absent — missing at least 10% of school days — down from 33.9% in 2021-22.

% chronically absent 0204014.4%10.1%10%20202021202220232024
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.

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. 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 has published a summative rating for Sir Isaac Newton Elementary School in one school year under ESSA. The rating is a percentile inside a group of schools NJDOE considers comparable — where the school placed among them, not a score and not a grade.

There is one rating here, for 2024-25. One rating is a reading, not a direction.

Every ESSA accountability workbook that carries a row for Sir Isaac Newton Elementary School, most recent first, exactly as NJDOE published it.
School yearPercentile in groupSummative scoreNJDOE’s groupIdentification
2024-2544.9947.39ElementaryNot 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 yearElementaryComprehensive, Comprehensive Review

Inside 2024-25 · what produced the most recent rating

For 2024-25 New Jersey weighted five indicators to add to 100 and gave this school 47.39 of those 100 points. It then ranked that total against the 1,659 New Jersey schools it grouped as Elementary for the year, which puts this school above 44.99% of them. That ranking is a place in a line-up of similar schools, not a grade and not a status.

points of the 100-point summative score0255075100ELA proficiency11.58 of 17.5 pointsMath proficiency9.34 of 17.5 pointsELA growth4.02 of 25 pointsMath growth12.89 of 25 pointsStudents not chronically absent9.55 of 15 pointsSummative score47.39 of 100 points

Each bar’s light track is the points that indicator was worth at this school; the filled part is the points it earned. NJDOE converts each result into a 0–100 indicator score — built from the standardised results of each student group large enough to report, not from the school-wide number alone — then multiplies that score by the weight. The tracks add to 100 and the filled bars add to the summative score, within the publisher’s own rounding.

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 test57.1%66.217.5%11.58
Math proficiencystudents who met or exceeded expectations on the state math test42.9%53.3917.5%9.34
ELA growththe school’s median student growth percentile in ELA4116.0825%4.02
Math growththe school’s median student growth percentile in math4851.5525%12.89
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 better89.9%63.6815%9.55

NJDOE published no result for Progress toward English proficiency. Below the state’s minimum group size nothing is reported at all, and an indicator with no result carries no weight — the remaining indicators were rescaled to add to 100 without it. 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!734: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 →