Elementary · Special education · Grades K to 8
Essex Junior Academy, Fairfield, NJ
CEP schoolEssex Junior Academy is a public elementary school in Fairfield, part of Essex Regional Educational Services Commission. It enrolled 15 students in 2024-25, with 3.8 students per full-time teacher.
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 15
- Teachers (FTE)
- 4.0
- Students per teacher
- 3.8
- Grades
- K to 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 school3.8
New Jersey11.7
United States15.3
School details
- Address
- 369 Passaic Avenue, Fairfield, NJ 07004
- Phone
- (973)239-0125
- County
- Essex County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Special education
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Suburb: Large
- NCES school ID
- 348030006040
School meals
Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
- Free lunch
- 7
- Reduced-price lunch
- 0
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 746.7% of enrollment.
- 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.
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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.