Jerome Dunn Academy No 9

Summary:

Jerome Dunn Academy No 9 is an elementary school in Elizabeth, New Jersey, serving 896 students in grades K-8, with a predominantly Hispanic student population. The school is part of the Elizabeth Public Schools district, which is ranked 508 out of 615 districts in the state and has a 1-star rating from SchoolDigger.

Jerome Dunn Academy No 9 consistently ranks among the lowest-performing elementary schools in New Jersey, with statewide rankings between 1203-1266 out of 1317-1360 schools. The school's performance on standardized tests is significantly below the state and district averages across all grade levels and subject areas, with only 6.1% of 3rd-grade students proficient or better in English Language Arts, compared to 42% statewide and 27% in the Elizabeth Public Schools district. The school also has a concerning increase in chronic absenteeism, rising from 13.0% in 2018-2019 to 29.5% in 2021-2022, which is significantly higher than the state and district averages.

When comparing Jerome Dunn Academy No 9 to the nearby schools in the Elizabeth Public Schools district, such as Sonia Sotomayor School No 25, Christopher Columbus School No. 15, and Juan Pablo Duarte - Jose Julian Marti School No 28, the nearby schools tend to have slightly higher academic performance and lower chronic absenteeism rates, but still struggle with low proficiency levels compared to state and district averages. The high percentage of students from low-socioeconomic backgrounds, ranging from 76.5% to 88.55% free or reduced-price lunch recipients, is a common challenge across the schools in the area.


Detail:

Public K-8

 125 Third Street
       Elizabeth, NJ  07206


(908) 436-5580

District: Elizabeth Public Schools

SchoolDigger Rank:
1214th of 1,342 New Jersey Elementary Schools

Per Pupil Expenditures:  $9,150 Help


Student/teacher ratio:  16.5 Help
Number of students:  896

Racial breakdown:

Hispanic:
81.7%
African American:
15.3%
White:
2.3%
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Free/discounted lunch recipients:  86.8% Help


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Compare Details Jerome Dunn Academy No 9 ranks worse than 90.5% of elementary schools in New Jersey. It also ranks 21st among 24 ranked elementary schools in the Elizabeth Public Schools District. (See more...)
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Compare Details In 2023 the calculated Average Standard Score was 11.52. (See more...)
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Compare Details Jerome Dunn Academy No 9 ranks worse than 87% of middle schools in New Jersey. (See more...)
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Compare Details In 2023 the calculated Average Standard Score was 15.01. (See more...)
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Chronic absenteeism in a school refers to a situation where students repeatedly miss school, with the threshold often defined as missing 10% or more of school days for any reason, excused or unexcused.
Student Body
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Compare Details Racial makeup is: Hispanic (81.7%), African American (15.3%), White (2.3%). (See more...)
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Compare Details 86.8% of students are receiving a free or discounted lunch. (See more...)
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Compare Details The student/teacher ratio at Jerome Dunn Academy No 9 is 16.5, which is the highest among 24 elementary schools in the Elizabeth Public Schools District! (See more...)
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Compare Details The average total spent per student at Jerome Dunn Academy No 9 is $9,150. 18 elementary schools in the Elizabeth Public Schools District spend more per student.
Schooldigger 2023 Rankings:

Jerome Dunn Academy No 9:

SchoolDigger ranks Jerome Dunn Academy No 9 1214th of 1342 New Jersey public elementary schools. (See Jerome Dunn Academy No 9 in the ranking list.)

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SchoolDigger ranks Jerome Dunn Academy No 9 651st of 748 New Jersey public middle schools. (See Jerome Dunn Academy No 9 in the ranking list.)

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Elizabeth Public Schools:

SchoolDigger ranks Elizabeth Public Schools 508th of 615 New Jersey school districts. (See district ranking list.)


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Rank History for Jerome Dunn Academy No 9

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Rank History for all elementary school students at Jerome Dunn Academy No 9

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools NJ State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2017 5.90 1293rd 1352 4.4%
2018 7.79 1266th 1353 6.4%
2019 9.79 1243rd 1360 8.6%
2021 8.80 1236th 1317 6.2%
2022 12.11 1203rd 1345 10.6%
2023 11.52 1214th 1342 9.5%
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Rank History for elementary school English Language Learner students at Jerome Dunn Academy No 9

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools NJ State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 32.72 291st 434 32.9%
2019 38.93 260th 463 43.8%
2021 33.92 270th 411 34.3%
2022 35.31 292nd 489 40.3%
2023 34.06 311th 499 37.7%
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Rank History for elementary school Special Education students at Jerome Dunn Academy No 9

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools NJ State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 16.75 857th 1001 14.4%
2019 17.83 843rd 1007 16.3%
2022 16.08 839th 949 11.6%
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Rank History for elementary school Low Socio Economic Status students at Jerome Dunn Academy No 9

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools NJ State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 20.32 832nd 942 11.7%
2019 21.09 750th 948 20.9%
2021 23.88 679th 839 19.1%
2022 30.13 610th 863 29.3%
2023 27.81 671st 910 26.3%
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Rank History for elementary school Female students at Jerome Dunn Academy No 9

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools NJ State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 7.20 1247th 1333 6.5%
2019 10.60 1200th 1331 9.8%
2021 11.26 1189th 1290 7.8%
2022 13.21 1156th 1326 12.8%
2023 14.90 1124th 1318 14.7%
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Rank History for elementary school Male students at Jerome Dunn Academy No 9

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools NJ State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 10.02 1212th 1334 9.1%
2019 10.72 1202nd 1335 10.0%
2021 9.38 1206th 1297 7.0%
2022 13.48 1157th 1324 12.6%
2023 12.80 1153rd 1315 12.3%
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Rank History for elementary school African American students at Jerome Dunn Academy No 9

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools NJ State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 24.16 390th 517 24.6%
2019 19.47 461st 522 11.7%
2021 29.36 349th 456 23.5%
2022 25.15 397th 494 19.6%
2023 21.41 401st 463 13.4%
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Rank History for elementary school Hispanic students at Jerome Dunn Academy No 9

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools NJ State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 20.33 699th 870 19.7%
2019 23.83 689th 899 23.4%
2021 21.71 787th 896 12.2%
2022 23.53 738th 953 22.6%
2023 23.23 773rd 982 21.3%
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Data source: test scores: New Jersey Department of Education, rankings: SchoolDigger.com

Rank History for Jerome Dunn Academy No 9

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Rank History for all middle school students at Jerome Dunn Academy No 9

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools NJ State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2017 6.51 682nd 712 4.2%
2018 8.52 661st 716 7.7%
2019 11.42 653rd 745 12.3%
2021 9.25 623rd 652 4.4%
2022 15.43 646th 745 13.3%
2023 15.01 651st 748 13.0%
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Rank History for middle school English Language Learner students at Jerome Dunn Academy No 9

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools NJ State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 37.46 121st 202 40.1%
2019 44.97 105th 227 53.7%
2021 44.30 82nd 197 58.4%
2022 53.91 85th 270 68.5%
2023 53.56 93rd 288 67.7%
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Rank History for middle school Special Education students at Jerome Dunn Academy No 9

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools NJ State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2019 30.82 337th 492 31.5%
2022 21.37 477th 535 10.8%
2023 19.30 468th 505 7.3%
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Rank History for middle school Low Socio Economic Status students at Jerome Dunn Academy No 9

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools NJ State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 23.70 407th 522 22.0%
2019 35.54 340th 541 37.2%
2021 21.40 371st 467 20.6%
2022 37.15 338th 549 38.4%
2023 36.06 355th 568 37.5%
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Rank History for middle school Female students at Jerome Dunn Academy No 9

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools NJ State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 10.14 624th 680 8.2%
2019 13.11 611th 703 13.1%
2021 10.89 590th 625 5.6%
2022 18.88 600th 726 17.4%
2023 19.47 586th 720 18.6%
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Rank History for middle school Male students at Jerome Dunn Academy No 9

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools NJ State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 14.08 594th 675 12.0%
2019 16.37 587th 697 15.8%
2021 10.44 600th 635 5.5%
2022 20.14 588th 730 19.5%
2023 18.60 592nd 718 17.5%
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Rank History for middle school African American students at Jerome Dunn Academy No 9

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools NJ State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2019 27.66 254th 326 22.1%
2021 19.15 269th 291 7.6%
2022 23.78 305th 356 14.3%
2023 27.10 291st 361 19.4%
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Rank History for middle school Hispanic students at Jerome Dunn Academy No 9

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools NJ State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 20.55 423rd 504 16.1%
2019 24.77 411th 524 21.6%
2021 20.66 424th 480 11.7%
2022 30.54 419th 591 29.1%
2023 32.85 393rd 587 33.0%
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Data source: test scores: New Jersey Department of Education, rankings: SchoolDigger.com

As you review the school rankings data, please be aware that some of the information from certain demographics is missing. The reason for this omission is that the data has been redacted from the source data itself due to low population samples in these specific demographic groups.

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Enrollment information for Jerome Dunn Academy No 9

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Year White African American Asian Hispanic American Indian Pacific Islander Two or More Races Not Specified Total
2015 17 209 5 478 0 1 0 0 710
2016 19 208 7 544 0 1 0 0 779
2017 25 202 5 582 0 2 1 0 817
2018 24 187 1 638 0 3 0 0 853
2019 20 177 2 662 0 2 0 0 863
2020 21 169 2 680 0 1 0 0 873
2021 21 156 3 705 0 2 1 0 888
2022 24 135 3 735 0 1 1 0 899
2023 21 137 1 732 2 3 0 0 896

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education.

About Enrollment/Ethnicity

For more information about how the Department of Education defines ethnicity, see Defining Race and Ethnicity Data, National Center for Education Statistics

Students eligible for free or discounted lunch at Jerome Dunn Academy No 9

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Year # Students Full-time Teachers Student/Teacher ratio % Free/Discounted Lunch
2015 710 46.0 15.4 91.5
2016 779 53.0 14.6 95.8
2017 817 54.5 14.9 94.4
2018 853 59.0 14.4 92.7
2019 863 60.5 14.2 93.3
2020 873 56.5 15.4 92.4
2021 888 56.5 15.7 89.2
2022 899 55.0 16.3 77.4
2023 896 54.0 16.5 86.8

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education.

About Students eligible for discounted/free lunch:

The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) provides low-cost or free meals to students in U.S. public and nonprofit private schools based on household income. Those with incomes below 130% of the poverty line receive free lunch, while those between 130% and 185% qualify for reduced-price lunch. The percentage of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch serves as a marker for poverty, as it reflects the socioeconomic status of families in a given school or district. A higher FRPL rate typically indicates a higher concentration of low-income families, suggesting that the school or district may face additional challenges in providing adequate resources and support for student success.

Student/Teacher Ratio Jerome Dunn Academy No 9

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Year # Students Full-time Teachers Student/Teacher ratio % Free/Discounted Lunch
2015 710 46.0 15.4 91.5
2016 779 53.0 14.6 95.8
2017 817 54.5 14.9 94.4
2018 853 59.0 14.4 92.7
2019 863 60.5 14.2 93.3
2020 873 56.5 15.4 92.4
2021 888 56.5 15.7 89.2
2022 899 55.0 16.3 77.4
2023 896 54.0 16.5 86.8

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education.

About Student-Teacher Ratio

Student/teacher ratio is calculated by dividing the total number of students by the total number of full-time equivalent teachers. Please note that a smaller student/teacher ratio does not necessarily translate to smaller class size. In some instances, schools hire teachers part time, and some teachers are hired for specialized instruction with very small class sizes. These and other factors contribute to the student/teacher ratio. Note: For private schools, Student/teacher ratio may not include Pre-Kindergarten.
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Per Pupil Expenditures for Jerome Dunn Academy No 9

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YearExpenditures from Federal FundsExpenditures from State and Local FundsTotal Expenditures Per Pupil (All Funds)
2019 $287 (3.1%) $8,863 (96.9%) $9,150

Data source: New Jersey Department of Education
Pre and Post Pandemic Data

Impact of COVID-19 on Jerome Dunn Academy No 9

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Rankings

Rank
Pre-pandemic (2018-2019)
Rank
Post pandemic (2022-2023)
Change (%)
Ranks 1243rd of 1360 Elementary schoolsRanks 1214th of 1342 Elementary schools
 0.9%
Ranks 653rd of 745 Middle schoolsRanks 651st of 748 Middle schools
 0.6%

Test Scores

% proficient
Pre-pandemic (2018-2019)
% proficient
Post pandemic (2022-2023)
Change (%)
3rd Grade English Language Arts (Jerome Dunn Academy No 9)14.66.1
 8.5%
   3rd Grade English Language Arts (Elizabeth Public Schools)38.727
 11.7%
   3rd Grade English Language Arts (New Jersey)50.242
 8.2%
3rd Grade Mathematics (Jerome Dunn Academy No 9)1814.7
 3.3%
   3rd Grade Mathematics (Elizabeth Public Schools)4133.4
 7.6%
   3rd Grade Mathematics (New Jersey)55.145.9
 9.2%
4th Grade English Language Arts (Jerome Dunn Academy No 9)38.221.6
 16.6%
   4th Grade English Language Arts (Elizabeth Public Schools)49.936.6
 13.3%
   4th Grade English Language Arts (New Jersey)57.451.3
 6.1%
4th Grade Mathematics (Jerome Dunn Academy No 9)19.413.7
 5.7%
   4th Grade Mathematics (Elizabeth Public Schools)35.627.4
 8.2%
   4th Grade Mathematics (New Jersey)5144.3
 6.7%
5th Grade English Language Arts (Jerome Dunn Academy No 9)32.123.2
 8.9%
   5th Grade English Language Arts (Elizabeth Public Schools)53.244.4
 8.8%
   5th Grade English Language Arts (New Jersey)57.953.2
 4.7%
5th Grade Mathematics (Jerome Dunn Academy No 9)13.222.4
 9.2%
   5th Grade Mathematics (Elizabeth Public Schools)35.229.2
 6%
   5th Grade Mathematics (New Jersey)46.840.1
 6.7%
6th Grade English Language Arts (Jerome Dunn Academy No 9)37.328.4
 8.9%
   6th Grade English Language Arts (Elizabeth Public Schools)51.443.7
 7.7%
   6th Grade English Language Arts (New Jersey)56.149
 7.1%
6th Grade Mathematics (Jerome Dunn Academy No 9)67
 1%
   6th Grade Mathematics (Elizabeth Public Schools)22.220.6
 1.6%
   6th Grade Mathematics (New Jersey)40.634.3
 6.3%
7th Grade English Language Arts (Jerome Dunn Academy No 9)40.524
 16.5%
   7th Grade English Language Arts (Elizabeth Public Schools)61.853.8
 8%
   7th Grade English Language Arts (New Jersey)62.855.7
 7.1%
7th Grade Mathematics (Jerome Dunn Academy No 9)10.522.2
 11.7%
   7th Grade Mathematics (Elizabeth Public Schools)19.616.5
 3.1%
   7th Grade Mathematics (New Jersey)42.133.8
 8.3%
8th Grade English Language Arts (Jerome Dunn Academy No 9)39.533.4
 6.1%
   8th Grade English Language Arts (Elizabeth Public Schools)60.352
 8.3%
   8th Grade English Language Arts (New Jersey)62.955.3
 7.6%
8th Grade Algebra I (Jerome Dunn Academy No 9)6.114.4
 8.3%
   8th Grade Algebra I (Elizabeth Public Schools)20.514.5
 6%
   8th Grade Algebra I (New Jersey)75.166
 9.1%
End of Course Algebra I (Jerome Dunn Academy No 9)6.114.4
 8.3%
   End of Course Algebra I (Elizabeth Public Schools)25.918.7
 7.2%
   End of Course Algebra I (New Jersey)43.335.1
 8.2%

Student Body

Number of students
Pre-pandemic (2018-2019)
Number of students
Post pandemic (2022-2023)
Change (%)
Total Students863896
 3.8%
African American177137
 22.6%
American Indian02
Asian21
 50%
Hispanic662732
 10.6%
Pacific Islander23
 50%
White2021
 5%
Two or More Races00
% Free/Discounted Lunch Recipients93.3%86.8%
 6.4%


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In the 2022-23 school year, 896 students attended Jerome Dunn Academy No 9.

Jerome Dunn Academy No 9 ranks in the bottom 9.5% of New Jersey elementary schools.

Students at Jerome Dunn Academy No 9 are 82% Hispanic, 15% African American, 2% White.


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