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Jefferson Elementary School

Basic InfoStudents and TeachersTest PerformanceSchool District

1700 West Front St

Plainfield NJ, 07063, Union County

Phone: 908-731-4250

Ranking:

(1,782 out of 1,847, bottom 4%)*

Type: Regular Primary School

Status: Currently Operational

Grade: Kindergarten to Grade 5

School District: Plainfield City School District

Title I Eligible School: Yes School-Wide Title I: NA

Magnet: NA

Charter: NA

Shared-Time School: NA

Students and Teachers

	2013-2014		2012-2013		2011-2012		2010-2011		2009-2010		2008-2009		2007-2008
	Amount	%	Amount	%	Amount	%	Amount	%	Amount	%	Amount	%	Amount	%
Total Teachers:	33		32		29		26		25		30		30
Total Students:	429		402		414		395		352		287		327
Kindergarten:	83	19.3%	78	19.4%	71	17.1%	57	14.4%	63	17.9%	54	18.8%	58	17.7%
Grade 1:	72	16.8%	75	18.7%	63	15.2%	63	15.9%	49	13.9%	48	16.7%	62	19.0%
Grade 2:	72	16.8%	58	14.4%	49	11.8%	52	13.2%	46	13.1%	52	18.1%	41	12.5%
Grade 3:	62	14.5%	52	12.9%	55	13.3%	43	10.9%	55	15.6%	38	13.2%	44	13.5%
Grade 4:	48	11.2%	58	14.4%	46	11.1%	60	15.2%	44	12.5%	44	15.3%	64	19.6%
Grade 5:	63	14.7%	39	9.7%	61	14.7%	46	11.6%	42	11.9%	51	17.8%	58	17.7%
Ungraded:	29	6.8%	42	10.4%	46	11.1%	43	10.9%	18	5.1%	NA	NA	NA	NA
Student By Gender:
Male:	229	53.4%	209	52.0%	226	54.6%	210	53.2%	184	52.3%	161	56.1%	172	52.6%
Female:	200	46.6%	193	48.0%	188	45.4%	185	46.8%	168	47.7%	126	43.9%	151	46.2%
Student By Races:
American Indian/Alaska Native:	0	0.0%	0	0.0%	0	0.0%	0	0.0%	0	0.0%	1	0.3%	0	0.0%
Asian:	0	0.0%	0	0.0%	0	0.0%	0	0.0%	0	0.0%	0	0.0%	0	0.0%
Hispanic:	319	74.4%	307	76.4%	297	71.7%	282	71.4%	249	70.7%	196	68.3%	210	64.2%
Black:	104	24.2%	93	23.1%	117	28.3%	113	28.6%	103	29.3%	90	31.4%	116	35.5%
White:	3	0.7%	1	0.2%	0	0.0%	0	0.0%	0	0.0%	0	0.0%	1	0.3%
Hawaiian Native/Pacific Islander:	2	0.5%	0	0.0%	0	0.0%	0	0.0%	0	0.0%	0	0.0%	NA	NA
Two or More Races:	1	0.2%	1	0.2%	0	0.0%	0	0.0%	0	0.0%	0	0.0%	NA	NA
Lunch Program:
Free Lunch Program Eligible:	374	87.2%	338	84.1%	326	78.7%	322	81.5%	267	75.9%	174	60.6%	249	76.1%
Reduced-Price Lunch Program Eligible:	22	5.1%	21	5.2%	22	5.3%	35	8.9%	30	8.5%	28	9.8%	43	13.1%
Student-Teacher Ratio:	13.00		12.56		14.16		15.19		14.08		8.40		10.90

Test Performance

Year	Test	Grade	Measurement	Score	School District	State Average
ASK
2004	Language Arts Literacy	3rd Grade	% proficient	64.1%	64.5%	79.4%
2005	Language Arts Literacy	3rd Grade	% proficient	59.4%	66.6%	83.2%
2006	Language Arts Literacy	3rd Grade	% proficient	53.7%	61.3%	82.4%
2007	Language Arts Literacy	3rd Grade	% proficient	50%	59.1%	83.4%
2008	Language Arts Literacy	3rd Grade	% proficient	67.5%	62.9%	86.1%
2009	Language Arts Literacy	3rd Grade	% proficient	34.2%	36.5%	62.9%
2010	Language Arts Literacy	3rd Grade	% proficient	16.7%	27.8%	59.8%
2011	Language Arts Literacy	3rd Grade	% proficient	26.4%	35.9%	63.0%
2012	Language Arts Literacy	3rd Grade	% proficient	20.8%	38.2%	66.7%
2013	Language Arts Literacy	3rd Grade	% proficient	29.3%	42.5%	66.4%
2004	Math	3rd Grade	% proficient	52.3%	44.1%	76.6%
2005	Math	3rd Grade	% proficient	39.3%	52.1%	82.5%
2006	Math	3rd Grade	% proficient	42.9%	60.6%	86.8%
2007	Math	3rd Grade	% proficient	49.1%	64.0%	87.3%
2008	Math	3rd Grade	% proficient	63.6%	65.3%	86.8%
2009	Math	3rd Grade	% proficient	39.5%	50.3%	75.4%
2010	Math	3rd Grade	% proficient	37.1%	44.9%	78.3%
2011	Math	3rd Grade	% proficient	39.7%	47.0%	78.9%
2012	Math	3rd Grade	% proficient	40.3%	51.9%	78.4%
2013	Math	3rd Grade	% proficient	41.4%	58.7%	77.7%
2003	Language Arts Literacy	4th Grade	% proficient	56.5%	57.1%	77.6%
2004	Language Arts Literacy	4th Grade	% proficient	65.7%	63.2%	82.2%
2005	Language Arts Literacy	4th Grade	% proficient	64.3%	59.4%	81.6%
2006	Language Arts Literacy	4th Grade	% proficient	47.8%	50.9%	80.0%
2007	Language Arts Literacy	4th Grade	% proficient	47.3%	55.2%	80.6%
2008	Language Arts Literacy	4th Grade	% proficient	53.4%	60.2%	82.7%
2009	Language Arts Literacy	4th Grade	% proficient	23.8%	29.2%	63.2%
2010	Language Arts Literacy	4th Grade	% proficient	25%	31.7%	59.7%
2011	Language Arts Literacy	4th Grade	% proficient	28.1%	29.3%	62.7%
2012	Language Arts Literacy	4th Grade	% proficient	29.1%	32.9%	58.5%
2013	Language Arts Literacy	4th Grade	% proficient	29.3%	32.9%	59.4%
2003	Math	4th Grade	% proficient	33.8%	29.2%	68.0%
2004	Math	4th Grade	% proficient	54.3%	46.7%	72.1%
2005	Math	4th Grade	% proficient	65.0%	52.0%	80.2%
2006	Math	4th Grade	% proficient	53.6%	57.6%	82.3%
2007	Math	4th Grade	% proficient	54.4%	63.1%	84.7%
2008	Math	4th Grade	% proficient	54.8%	63.3%	84.9%
2009	Math	4th Grade	% proficient	60.5%	45.7%	73.1%
2010	Math	4th Grade	% proficient	43.2%	55.2%	77.2%
2011	Math	4th Grade	% proficient	21.9%	51.9%	79.3%
2012	Math	4th Grade	% proficient	45.5%	55.1%	77.4%
2013	Math	4th Grade	% proficient	58.7%	57.1%	78.3%
2005	Science	4th Grade	% proficient	48.3%	47.6%	81.1%
2006	Science	4th Grade	% proficient	45.7%	49.9%	82.3%
2007	Science	4th Grade	% proficient	50.0%	51.1%	83.1%
2008	Science	4th Grade	% proficient	53.2%	53.4%	85.1%
2009	Science	4th Grade	% proficient	86.0%	72.3%	91.1%
2010	Science	4th Grade	% proficient	75.0%	83.6%	93.5%
2011	Science	4th Grade	% proficient	71.9%	74.7%	90.0%
2012	Science	4th Grade	% proficient	74.5%	78.7%	91.3%
2013	Science	4th Grade	% proficient	75.7%	78.5%	89.5%
2007	Language Arts Literacy	5th Grade	% proficient	76.7%	75.1%	88.8%
2008	Language Arts Literacy	5th Grade	% proficient	29.3%	33.5%	60.0%
2009	Language Arts Literacy	5th Grade	% proficient	21.6%	37.5%	66.2%
2010	Language Arts Literacy	5th Grade	% proficient	22.9%	35.8%	63.3%
2011	Language Arts Literacy	5th Grade	% proficient	20.4%	31.8%	60.9%
2012	Language Arts Literacy	5th Grade	% proficient	14.3%	28.9%	62.1%
2013	Language Arts Literacy	5th Grade	% proficient	27.5%	35.9%	61.3%
2007	Math	5th Grade	% proficient	71.4%	71.7%	84.1%
2008	Math	5th Grade	% proficient	44.8%	51.8%	76.6%
2009	Math	5th Grade	% proficient	45.1%	56.6%	77.6%
2010	Math	5th Grade	% proficient	64.6%	53.9%	79.0%
2011	Math	5th Grade	% proficient	28%	54.7%	80.6%
2012	Math	5th Grade	% proficient	55.7%	61.1%	83.3%
2013	Math	5th Grade	% proficient	41.2%	60.4%	79.9%
2010	Language Arts Literacy	6th Grade	% proficient	16.7%	31.1%	65.5%
2011	Language Arts Literacy	6th Grade	% proficient	42.9%	41.5%	66.7%
2010	Math	6th Grade	% proficient	40.5%	46.9%	72.1%
2011	Math	6th Grade	% proficient	65.7%	55.5%	77.4%

Some data by SchoolDigger.com.

* Jefferson Elementary School was rated 1 out of 5 by USA.com. The ranking was calculated based on publically available historical Math and English performance data.