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Branch Brook School

Newark · Essex County · Elementary school
Grades PK–4 · was PK–3 in 2024
Updated June 2026

At a glance

What changed?

This page does not have enough comparable recent data to summarize more than one measure. Start with enrollment evidence →

Enrollment over time

In 2025-26 it enrolled 55 students. That is 88 fewer than in 1998-99 (143) — the school has shrunk. It peaked at 183 in 1999-00.

students 050100150200 551998200320082013201820232025

Total students enrolled each fall. Source: NJDOE Fall Enrollment.

What the school looks like

The largest group in both 1998-99 and 2025-26 was Hispanic students — 80% then, 76% now.

% of students 050100race categories: 5 → 776%16%1998200320082013201820232025
WhiteBlackHispanicAsianTwo or moreNative Am.

Each group’s share of enrollment over time, or its head count — toggle above. New Jersey expanded race and ethnicity reporting from five to seven categories in 2006-07 (dashed line), so “two or more races” appears only after; Asian here includes Pacific Islander. Source: NJDOE Fall Enrollment.

How much the mix changed

Between 2024-25 and 2025-26 the makeup of this school barely moved.

That’s the second-largest shift among the district’s five elementary schools — larger than 91% of Essex County elementary schools. The biggest moves, in percentage points:
Black −4·White +1.9·Native Am. +1.8

The index is half the sum of every group’s change in share, on a 0–100 scale (how it works). Compare any two years in the explorer →

Free or reduced-price lunch

In 2025-26, 78.2% of students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch.

% eligible 050100notreported81.8%78.2%77.5%1998200320082013201820232025
This schooldistrict overalldistrict elementary schools

Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals. The lighter lines show the district overall and the district elementary schools, for comparison. Years the state did not report are shaded. Since 2014, some districts provide free meals to all students regardless of household income, which can lift the eligible share. Source: NJDOE Fall Enrollment.

Test scores

On the NJSLA — New Jersey’s state test — here is how students have scored over recent years and by grade. (New Jersey reports student-growth scores only through grade 8, so they are not available for high schools.)

1 · did not meet2 · partially met3 · approached4 · met5 · exceeded

English language arts: school-wide results were not published for 2024-25 (state 53%).

ELA — NJDOE-published school-wide All Students rows, not calculated from grade panels.
School yearMet or exceededValid scoresTest participationNJ statewide
2021-22Not reported — Fewer than 10 valid scoresNot reported — Fewer than 10 valid scoresNot reported — Fewer than 10 valid scores49.0%
2022-23Not reported — Fewer than 10 valid scoresNot reported — Fewer than 10 valid scoresNot reported — Fewer than 10 valid scores51.3%
2023-24Not reported — Fewer than 10 valid scoresNot reported — Fewer than 10 valid scoresNot reported — Fewer than 10 valid scores52.2%
2024-25Not reported — Fewer than 10 valid scoresNot reported — Fewer than 10 valid scoresNot reported — Fewer than 10 valid scores53.0%

Source: NJDOE 2024-25 school-detail workbook (330 MB). How this data works →

By grade, year to year

Each panel is one grade — watch its mix of levels shift across 2021–2024.

Grade 3
withheld20212024

Math: school-wide results were not published for 2024-25 (state 42%).

Math — NJDOE-published school-wide All Students rows, not calculated from grade panels.
School yearMet or exceededValid scoresTest participationNJ statewide
2021-22Not reported — Fewer than 10 valid scoresNot reported — Fewer than 10 valid scoresNot reported — Fewer than 10 valid scores36.0%
2022-23Not reported — Fewer than 10 valid scoresNot reported — Fewer than 10 valid scoresNot reported — Fewer than 10 valid scores38.2%
2023-24Not reported — Fewer than 10 valid scoresNot reported — Fewer than 10 valid scoresNot reported — Fewer than 10 valid scores40.2%
2024-25Not reported — Fewer than 10 valid scoresNot reported — Fewer than 10 valid scoresNot reported — Fewer than 10 valid scores42.0%

Source: NJDOE 2024-25 school-detail workbook (330 MB). How this data works →

By grade, year to year

Each panel is one grade — watch its mix of levels shift across 2021–2024.

Grade 3
withheld20212024

In each panel the flat line is the proficiency boundary: levels 4–5 (met or exceeded) fill the area above it, levels 1–3 below — so a smaller reported share in levels 4–5 makes the area above the line shrink (it isn’t a misleading upward slope). Light = level 1 (did not yet meet expectations), dark = level 5 (exceeded); the % marks the proficient share at the first and last points. The first set of panels follows each grade across the years; the second lines up aggregate grade results one grade higher each year. It approximates a class cohort, not linked individual students. Growth is the median Student Growth Percentile (50 = a typical year), reported only through grade 8. The NJSLA was not given in spring 2020 and was disrupted the next year. Source: NJ School Performance Reports.

Chronic absenteeism

In 2024-25, 18.8% of students were chronically absent — missing at least 10% of school days.

% chronically absent 01530notreported18.8%14.4%10%2021202220232024
This schooldistrict overallNew Jersey

Chronic absenteeism — the share of students who missed 10% or more of the days they were enrolled (roughly 18 days across a full school year). The lighter lines show the district overall and New Jersey, for comparison. Source: NJ School Performance Reports, 2024-25.

Profile built from New Jersey Department of Education Fall Enrollment data, 1998-99 through 2025-26. How this data works →