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Early Childhood School - West

Newark · Essex County · Early childhood center
Grades PK
Last reported enrollment in 2020-21 — no longer in the data since.
Page updated · data years vary by section

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 its last year on record, 2020-21, it enrolled 57 students. Enrollment was roughly steady since 2012-13 (68). It peaked at 170 in 2013-14.

students 050100150200 571998200320082013201820232025

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

What the school looks like

The largest group in both 2012-13 and 2020-21 was Black students — 97% then, 86% now.

% of students 050100race categories: 5 → 77%86%1998200320082013201820232025
WhiteBlackHispanicAsianNative 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 2016-17 and 2020-21 the makeup of this school shifted noticeably.

That’s the smallest shift among the district’s four early-childhood centers — smaller than 86% of Essex County early-childhood centers. That roughly tracks the district overall (6.3) — a district-wide change more than a school-specific one. The biggest moves, in percentage points:
Black −7.2·White +5.3·Asian +1.8

The index is half the sum of every group’s change in share, on a 0–100 scale (how it works). It is computed from the same counts as the makeup chart above — source: NJDOE Fall Enrollment. Compare any two years in the explorer →

Free or reduced-price lunch

In 2020-21, 61.4% of students were certified for free or reduced-price lunch.

% certified 05010071.4%61.4%55%201220172020
This schooldistrict overalldistrict early-childhood centers

Share of students certified for free or reduced-price meals, through a household application or an automatic match. The lighter lines show the district overall and the district early-childhood centers, for comparison. Some districts serve free meals to every student under the Community Eligibility Provision. Those districts often stop collecting household income forms, so their reported share can run below the number of low-income students they enroll. Source: NJDOE Fall Enrollment.

NCES school lunch record

In 2020-21, NCES reported 35 students in its free/reduced-price lunch total and 57 in membership: 61.4% within that edition.

Universe break. In 2024-25, the NCES lunch file contains 2,461 New Jersey schools while the membership file contains 2,552; 91 membership schools have no lunch row. A percentage below exists only where both files report the same school-year.

YearLunch totalMembershipWithin-year shareSource
2014-15619862.2%Wide Provisional
2015-16537372.6%Wide Provisional
Source format changes here: wide school rows above; long category rows below.
2016-1710413179.4%Long Provisional
2017-1812813495.5%Long Provisional
2018-194513134.4%Long Provisional
2019-2010212581.6%Long Provisional
2020-21355761.4%Long Provisional

Direct certification. NCES publishes no numeric direct-certification count for a New Jersey school in this release. The wide editions do not contain the field; the later New Jersey rows are not reported or suppressed. Those states are not zero.

This is the federal NCES Common Core of Data record, separate from the NJDOE Fall Enrollment chart above. NCES says the lunch counts are perturbed for disclosure protection, so a school count is not exact. Files through 2022–23 are publisher-marked provisional; the two newest editions are final. Source, row-state rules, and coverage: NCES CCD school lunch and membership.

Profile built from New Jersey Department of Education Fall Enrollment data, 1998-99 through 2025-26. How this data works → The NCES school lunch record is a separate federal source. How the NCES record works →