Summary:
The city of Brooklawn, New Jersey has a single public elementary school, Alice Costello Elementary School, which serves students from kindergarten through 8th grade. The school is part of the Brooklawn Public School District.
Alice Costello Elementary School has consistently ranked in the bottom half of New Jersey elementary schools, ranking 849th out of 1,347 in the 2024-2025 school year. The school's performance on standardized tests is mixed, with some grades performing above the state average in English Language Arts (ELA) and Mathematics, while others perform significantly below. In 2024-2025, the school's ELA proficiency rates ranged from 21.2% (6th grade) to 71.9% (7th grade), compared to the state average of 44.9% to 57.1%. In Mathematics, the school's proficiency rates ranged from 10% (8th grade) to 62.5% (3rd grade), compared to the state average of 20.7% to 49.8%. The school's science proficiency rates were also low, with 0% of 8th graders and 25% of 5th graders scoring proficient or better, compared to the state averages of 19% and 30.1%, respectively.
Alice Costello Elementary School has a high percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, at 58.94% in the 2023-2024 school year. The school has a relatively small student-teacher ratio of 7.8 to 1 in the 2023-2024 school year, and its per-student spending for the 2018-2019 school year was $12,492. These factors suggest that the school may face challenges in addressing the needs of its predominantly low-income student population, despite the availability of resources and small class sizes.
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