Elementary · Regular · Grades K to 8

Nicholas Murray Butler Academy School No. 23, Elizabeth, NJ

Nicholas Murray Butler Academy School No. 23 is a public elementary school in Elizabeth, part of Elizabeth Public Schools. It enrolled 667 students in 2024-25, with 12.1 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 667
Teachers (FTE): 55.0
Students per teacher: 12.1
Grades: K to 8

This school's ratio is 0.9 lower 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 school12.1

District13.0

New Jersey11.7

United States15.3

School details

Address: 631-657 Westminster Avenue, Elizabeth, NJ 07208
Phone: (908)436-5900
District: Elizabeth Public Schools
County: Union County
Level: Elementary
Type: Regular
Status: Open
Charter: No
Virtual: No
Locale: Suburb: Large
NCES school ID: 340459005526

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School meals

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

Free lunch: 496
Reduced-price lunch: 65
Free or reduced-price lunch: 56184.1% 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 elementary schools in Elizabeth Public Schools

Toussaint L'Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6 1,001 students
Dr. Antonia Pantoja School No. 27 934 students
Juan Pablo Duarte - Jose Julian Marti School No 28 878 students
Jerome Dunn Academy No 9 856 students
Abraham Lincoln School No. 14 793 students
Dr. Albert Einstein Academy School No. 29 785 students
Mabel G. Holmes School No. 5 767 students
Nicholas S. Lacorte-Peterstown School No. 3 765 students
Joseph Battin School No 4 757 students
Chessie Dentley Roberts Academy School No. 30 729 students
Dr. Orlando Edreira Academy School No. 26 718 students
Christopher Columbus School No. 15 672 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.