Summary:
This area has one listed school, Newark Educators Community Charter School, serving prekindergarten through grade 4 with 142 students. Because it is the only school in the list, there is no school-to-school comparison. The most important finding is that the latest results are sharply split by grade and subject, with a strong result in grade 3 math but a very low result in grade 4 ELA.
In 2025–2026, grade 3 math was the school’s clearest bright spot: 65% of students were proficient, about 16 percentage points above the state’s 49%. Grade 4 ELA was the clearest concern: 6% were proficient, about 40 points below the state’s 46%. Grade 4 math was also behind the state, at 24% compared with 47%, while grade 3 ELA was 35% compared with 48% statewide. These contrasts show why one overall impression of the school would miss important differences between grades and subjects.
Year-to-year results changed in opposite directions across grades: grade 3 ELA rose 35 points and grade 3 math rose 52, while grade 4 ELA fell 72 points and grade 4 math fell 15. Across all four results, the school’s equal-weight average was nearly unchanged at 32% in both years, and its gap below the state narrowed by about 1 point. SchoolDigger’s ranking moved down from 636th of 1,338 schools (52nd percentile) in 2023–2024 to 902nd of 1,331 (32nd percentile) in 2025–2026. Other context: 32% chronic absenteeism in 2024–2025 versus 14% statewide; 81% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025; and an 11.8-to-1 student-teacher ratio that year. These figures describe the school but do not establish why its results differ by grade.
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