Quitman Street School

Quitman Street School is a PK–8 school with 706 students in Newark, part of the Newark Public School District. The most important concern is that its 2025–2026 proficiency results were low across tested grades: the grade 3–8 averages were 15% in English Language Arts (ELA) and 8% in math.

Compared with the district and state, Quitman’s averages were substantially lower: ELA was 13 percentage points below the district and 36 below the state; math was 15 points below the district and 33 below the state. Grade 6 math is a relative bright spot: 22% met proficiency, above the district’s 18% and five of nine nearby-school results, though below the state’s 40%. Other results are weaker: grade 4 math was 2%, the lowest among nearby schools, and grade 8 ELA was below every nearby school. Science proficiency was also low, at 5% in grade 5 and 2% in grade 8, compared with state rates of 27% and 19%.

Math has improved over time, while ELA’s longer-term gains recently slipped: from 2022–2023 to 2025–2026, the averages rose from 3% to 8% in math and 11% to 15% in ELA, but ELA fell from 18% the prior year. The state gaps changed little over that span. SchoolDigger ranks Quitman in the 3rd percentile statewide, with 0 stars, in 2025–2026; it was at the 1st percentile in 2022–2023. One relative strength in SchoolDigger’s rankings is its measure of how well the school serves students receiving special education services: that group ranked in the 25th percentile, compared with the school’s 3rd-percentile overall standing. In 2024–2025, the student-teacher ratio was 16.4, and 84% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible; the latter was higher than the 80% average for nearby schools with the same measure. Chronic absenteeism was a more favorable contrast: 8% in 2024–2025, below the district’s 10% and state’s 14%.