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Frances C. Smith Early Childhood Center No 50, Elizabeth, NJ

Frances C. Smith Early Childhood Center No 50 is a public prekindergarten school in Elizabeth, part of Elizabeth Public Schools. It enrolled 306 students in 2024-25, with 13.9 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
306
Teachers (FTE)
22.0
Students per teacher
13.9
Grades
PK

This school's ratio is 0.9 higher than 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 school13.9
District13.0
New Jersey11.7
United States15.3

School details

Address
1000 South Elmora Ave, Elizabeth, NJ 07202
Phone
(908)436-6380
District
Elizabeth Public Schools
County
Union County
Level
Prekindergarten
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
Suburb: Large
NCES school ID
340459000467
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
198
Reduced-price lunch
35
Free or reduced-price lunch
23376.1% 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

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.