NCES CCD 2024-25 10 schools NJ

Best-Resourced Schools in Union, NJ

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10 public K-12 schools in Union from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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10
Schools
7,845
Students
48.5/100
Avg Resource Index
13.4:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Broad resource and staffing advantage

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Union has more public-school enrollment than 73% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Union lands in the upper national tier on both the average Resource Investment Index and teacher staffing intensity. Those measures come from different inputs: the index combines reported counselors, gifted access, attendance, and staffing, while the staffing percentile compares the city's student-teacher ratio directly. Agreement across both measures is stronger evidence of broad reported capacity than either score alone, though neither is a test-score rating or a guarantee about an individual classroom.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

6 of Union's 10 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

One district, but meaningful resource variation

Union's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 83rd percentile among listed cities. Shared governance removes one source of policy variation, but it does not erase campus differences by grade span or enrollment. The 20-point gap between Kawameeh Middle School and Jefferson Elementary measures the remaining local spread. Use the district-level picture for common budget context, then compare the school components to see whether staffing, counseling, gifted-program reporting, or attendance accounts for each campus's position.

City enrollment
Top 27%
School count
Top 41%
Resource Index average
83rd percentile
Teacher staffing
74th percentile

Union High School accounts for 30.7% of all Union public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Union-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Union school enrollment varies 5.8× across entities

Union school enrollment ranges from 414 students (lowest) to 2,410 students (highest), a spread of 1,996 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Union operates one school district — a single-district system

Union's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Union student-teacher ratio is 13.4:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Kawameeh Middle School 61
2. Battle Hill Elementary 56
3. Burnet Middle School 55
4. Connecticut Farms Elementary 50
5. Washington Elementary 48
6. Union High School 46
7. Livingston Elementary 43
8. Franklin Elementary 43
9. Hannah Caldwell Elementary 42
10. Jefferson Elementary 41

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Union

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Livingston Elementary 73.4/100
  2. 2 Washington Elementary 72.8/100
  3. 3 Connecticut Farms Elementary 72.5/100
  4. 4 Battle Hill Elementary 71.9/100
  5. 5 Kawameeh Middle School 71.4/100

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Which Union school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Kawameeh Middle School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Union schools in this federal-data comparison at 61/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Union, NJ? ▼

Union has 10 public schools with a total enrollment of 7,845 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 13.4:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.