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Elizabeth Public Schools


At a glance
538thof 607 New Jersey districts▼ 44
Better than 11% of New Jersey districts
500 North Broad Street
Elizabeth, NJ 07208
·(908) 436-5000·All New Jersey district rankings →
Statewide performance 2018–2026
2026: better than 11.4% of districts
37
Schools
27,580
Students
Top rankedTerence C. Reilly School No 7223rd of 743 New Jersey middle schools
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Biggest riser
Toussaint L'Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6 up 27 spots statewide this year
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Smallest classes
Benjamin Franklin School No. 13 10.8 students per teacher
SchoolDigger ratings
2★
1★
0★
3 schools without a SchoolDigger rating (too few tested students)
Summary:

Elizabeth Public Schools includes 34 schools in Elizabeth, New Jersey: 24 elementary schools, two middle schools and eight high schools, serving students from elementary through high school. The most important takeaway is how sharply results differ among schools, even in the same grade and subject: 2025–26 grade 4 mathematics ranged from 89% at William F. Halloran School No. 22 to 2% at Benjamin Franklin School No. 13, an 86-point spread.

Terence C. Reilly School No. 7 and Halloran stand out across several elementary and middle-school measures. Reilly led in ELA grades 3, 5 and 7, mathematics grade 6, and science grades 5 and 8; Halloran led in ELA grade 4 and mathematics grades 3 and 4. Franklin was at or near the bottom in multiple comparisons, including grade 3 ELA (10%) and grade 4 mathematics (2%). In high school, Elizabeth High School – Frank J. Cicarell Academy scored 87% in grade 9 ELA, compared with 10% at John E. Dwyer Technology Academy—a 77-point gap. Cicarell also led Dwyer in grade 11 NJGPA mathematics, 89% to 23% (66 points), and science, 39% to 4%.

SchoolDigger’s unweighted average percentile for these schools fell from 27 in 2023–24 to 25 in 2024–25 and 21 in 2025–26, a six-point decline overall; this is a relative ranking trend, not a test-score change. Individual results moved in different directions: Dwyer’s grade 9 ELA fell 15 points between 2024–25 and 2025–26, while Thomas A. Edison Career and Technical Academy rose 9 points. SchoolDigger’s 2025–26 percentiles were 70 for Reilly and 62 for Halloran. As context, the reported free/reduced lunch eligible shares in 2024–25 were 51% at Victor Mravlag School No. 21, 79% at Reilly and 78% at Halloran; these figures do not explain school results. Student–teacher ratios also varied, from 10.8 at Franklin to 18.1 at Cicarell. Some test results are suppressed, and rankings are not test-score measures.

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the New Jersey Department of Education.

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