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Philip's Academy Charter School, Newark, NJ

Charter schoolPhilip's Academy Charter School is a public elementary school in Newark, part of Phillip's Academy Charter School. It enrolled 730 students in 2024-25, with 25.2 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
730
Teachers (FTE)
29.0
Students per teacher
25.2
Grades
PK to 8

This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 25.2. The New Jersey average across schools is 11.7. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school25.2
District25.2
New Jersey11.7
United States15.3

School details

Address
342 Central Avenue, Newark, NJ 07103
Phone
(973)624-0644
District
Phillip's Academy Charter School
County
Essex County
Level
Elementary
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
Yes
Virtual
No
Locale
City: Large
NCES school ID
340076403256
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
433
Reduced-price lunch
87
Free or reduced-price lunch
52071.2% 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

Elementary schools elsewhere in Newark

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.