Elementary · Regular · Grades PK to 5
Edward T. Bowser Sr. School of Excellence, East Orange, NJ
Edward T. Bowser Sr. School of Excellence is a public elementary school in East Orange, part of East Orange School District. It enrolled 612 students in 2024-25, with 17.0 students per full-time teacher.
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 612
- Teachers (FTE)
- 36.0
- Students per teacher
- 17.0
- Grades
- PK to 5
This school's ratio is 1.2 higher than the district figure of 15.8. The New Jersey average across schools is 11.7. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
This school17.0
District15.8
New Jersey11.7
United States15.3
School details
- Address
- 180 Lincoln Street, East Orange, NJ 07017
- Phone
- (973)414-4170
- District
- East Orange School District
- County
- Essex County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Suburb: Large
- NCES school ID
- 340423002044
Related schools
Other elementary schools in East Orange School District
- 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
- Benjamin Banneker Academy
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.