Prekindergarten · Regular · Grades PK

Donald Stewart Early Childhood Center No 51, Elizabeth, NJ

Donald Stewart Early Childhood Center No 51 is a public prekindergarten school in Elizabeth, part of Elizabeth Public Schools. It enrolled 310 students in 2024-25, with 12.9 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 310
Teachers (FTE): 24.0
Students per teacher: 12.9
Grades: PK

This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 13.0. The New Jersey average across schools is 11.7. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school12.9

District13.0

New Jersey11.7

United States15.3

School details

Address: 544 Pennsylvania Avenue, Elizabeth, NJ 07207
Phone: (908)436-6410
District: Elizabeth Public Schools
County: Union County
Level: Prekindergarten
Type: Regular
Status: Open
Charter: No
Virtual: No
Locale: Suburb: Large
NCES school ID: 340459006131

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School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.

Free lunch: 218
Reduced-price lunch: 41
Free or reduced-price lunch: 25983.5% of enrollment.
Community Eligibility Provision: No

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 prekindergarten schools in Elizabeth Public Schools

Frances C. Smith Early Childhood Center No 50 306 students
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Early Childhood Center No 52 301 students

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.