Greater Brunswick Charter School

Greater Brunswick Charter School is an elementary school serving around 400 students in grades K-8 in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The school is part of the Greater Brunswick Charter School District, which is ranked 550 out of 609 districts in the state and has a 0-star rating from SchoolDigger.

Greater Brunswick Charter School consistently performs below the state average in both English Language Arts and Mathematics proficiency across all grade levels. For example, in the 2024-2025 school year, the school's proficiency rates ranged from 27.6% to 42.8% in ELA and 4.2% to 39.1% in Mathematics, compared to the state averages of 44.9% to 57.1% in ELA and 20.7% to 49.8% in Mathematics. The school's performance is particularly low for certain student subgroups, such as English Language Learners and Special Education students, who scored 0% and 1% proficient in Mathematics, respectively, compared to the state averages of 18.4% and 15.4%. Additionally, Greater Brunswick Charter School has consistently high chronic absenteeism rates, ranging from 8.7% to 16.6% over the past few years, which is significantly higher than the state average.

When compared to nearby schools, such as Parsons Elementary in the North Brunswick Township School District, Greater Brunswick Charter School generally performs worse academically. In the 2024-2025 school year, Parsons Elementary had proficiency rates of 26.6% to 33.4% in ELA and 25.7% to 27.5% in Mathematics, which are higher than Greater Brunswick Charter School's rates. Despite the school's higher-than-average spending per student of $10,212 in the 2018-2019 school year, its academic outcomes remain poor, suggesting that simply increasing funding may not be the sole solution to improving the school's performance.