Summary:
Zip code 07030 includes five elementary schools in Hoboken: three public schools serving through grade 5 and two charter schools serving through grade 8. In 2025–26, all five scored above the state results in the same grades and subjects, though performance varied considerably across the group. The clearest standout in the shared elementary grades is Hoboken Dual Language Charter School, which had the highest average results in both ELA and math.
Hoboken Dual Language Charter School averaged 92% in grades 3–5 ELA and 91% in math, compared with the five-school averages of 77% and 76%; its grade 5 science result was 76%, also the group’s highest. Elysian Charter School of Hoboken ranked second in math at 84% and third in ELA at 81%, and led grade 3 math with 91%. At the lower end, Wallace Elementary School had the lowest overall averages, 65% in ELA and 63% in math—about 27 and 28 points below Dual Language, respectively. Thomas G. Connors Elementary School had the weakest grade 4 results: 56% in ELA and 59% in math.
Recent results show mixed movement, not improvement everywhere: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, the five-school average fell by 1 point in ELA but rose by 2 points in math. Joseph F. Brandt Elementary School had the largest ELA decline among the schools, down 5 points, while Elysian Charter School of Hoboken and Wallace Elementary School had the largest math gains, each up 4 points. SchoolDigger ranked Dual Language 6th of 1,331 schools and gave it five stars; Elysian ranked 43rd and Brandt 112th. As context, in 2024–25 the schools’ free/reduced lunch eligible shares ranged from 9% to 32%; the two charters were at 9% and 10%, while the district schools ranged from 21% to 32%. The charters also differed in reported student–teacher ratios: 22.0 at Dual Language and 11.8 at Elysian.
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