Elementary · Regular · Grades PK to 8
Benjamin Banneker Academy, East Orange, NJ
CEP schoolBenjamin Banneker Academy is a public elementary school in East Orange, part of East Orange School District.
Enrollment and teachers
- Teachers (FTE)
- 22.0
- Grades
- PK to 8
School details
- Address
- 500 South Clinton Street, East Orange, NJ 07018
- Phone
- (973)266-4320
- District
- East Orange School District
- County
- Essex County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Suburb: Large
- NCES school ID
- 340423000273
School meals
Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
- Free lunch
- 35
- Reduced-price lunch
- 0
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 35
- Community Eligibility Provision
- Yes (CEP school)
Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.
Related schools
Other elementary schools in East Orange School District
- Edward T. Bowser Sr. School of Excellence 612 students
- Langston Hughes Elementary School 554 students
- Cicely L. Tyson Community Elementary School 481 students
- Shelia Y. Oliver Academy 413 students
- Whitney E. Houston Academy 385 students
- Dionne Warwick Institute 379 students
- Ecole Toussaint Louverture 269 students
- Gordon Parks Academy 268 students
- J. Garfield Jackson Sr. Academy 247 students
- Mildred Barry Garvin Elementary 245 students
- Wahlstrom Early Childhood Academy 157 students
- Althea Gibson Academy 144 students
Elementary schools elsewhere in East Orange
- East Orange Community Charter School East Orange Community Charter School
We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.