Chancellor Avenue School

Chancellor Avenue School serves 607 students in prekindergarten through grade 8 in Newark, New Jersey. Its 2025–2026 results vary substantially by grade and subject. The most important finding is that the school’s average ELA and math results remain well below state averages—27% versus 51% in ELA and 18% versus 40% in math—but are higher than the averages for nearby comparable Newark schools.

The school has bright spots in ELA and grade 4 math, but science is a clear weakness. In grades 3 and 7, ELA proficiency is 43% and 47%; both results exceed the district’s results for those grades. Grade 4 math reaches 30%, higher than the district and nearby schools reporting that grade. Across all six tested grades, Newark Public School District averages 28% in ELA and 22% in math, while nearby comparable schools average 19% and 12%. Science proficiency averages just 3% across grades 5 and 8, compared with 8% for the district and 23% for the state; grade 8 science is especially low at 2%.

ELA and math have improved over four years, while science has stayed essentially flat: the school’s ELA average rose by 6 percentage points and its math average by 10, while science moved from 3% to 3%. SchoolDigger ranks the school 1,186th of 1,331 schools, at the 11th percentile and one star. Its 2024–2025 student-teacher ratio is 13.4:1, and 88% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that school year—the highest reported share among nearby schools. One notable exception to its overall ranking is African American students: SchoolDigger places the school at the 39th percentile for this group, compared with the school’s overall 11th percentile; the group ranking rose from the 29th percentile in 2023–2024.