East Newark School District

The East Newark School District has one listed school, East Newark Elementary School, serving kindergarten through grade 8. In 2025–2026, the school’s averages were below the state in every reported subject: 32% in ELA versus 51% statewide, 24% in math versus 40%, and 11% in science versus 23%. The most concerning individual result was grade-7 math, where 0% were proficient compared with 38% statewide.

With only one school, there is no meaningful comparison between schools; its strongest and weakest results are by grade. In 2025–2026, its top results were grade-3 math at 39%, grade-8 ELA at 36%, and grade-8 science at 15%. At the lower end, grade-7 math was 0%, grade-5 science was 6%, and grade-5 ELA was 28%. Grade-8 science was closest to the state, at 15% compared with 19%—a gap of 4 points—while grade-7 math had the largest listed gap, at 38 points.

Results improved overall relative to the state, but not in every grade. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, the comparable ELA average rose from 24% to 32%, and its gap with the state narrowed from 29 points to 19; the math average rose from 21% to 24%, with its gap narrowing from 19 points to 17. Yet grade-5 ELA fell 18 points, and grade-7 math dropped from 16% to 0%. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile ranking rose from the 8th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 23rd in 2025–2026, though it remains below most schools in that comparison. The school’s 2024–2025 student-teacher ratio was 12.2, and 88% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025; chronic absenteeism was 12%, below the state’s 14%.