Elementary · Regular · Grades PK to 8
President Barack Obama Elementary School, Jersey City, NJ
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 425
- Teachers (FTE)
- 35.0
- Students per teacher
- 12.1
- Grades
- PK to 8
This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 12.1. The New Jersey average across schools is 11.7. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 1830 Kennedy Blvd, Jersey City, NJ 07305
- Phone
- (201)915-6550
- District
- Jersey City Public Schools
- County
- Hudson County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- City: Large
- NCES school ID
- 340783002824
School meals
- Free lunch
- 344
- Reduced-price lunch
- 13
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 35784.0% 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.
Related schools
Other elementary schools in Jersey City Public Schools
- Cornelia F. Bradford School 1,082 students
- Joseph H. Brensinger School 926 students
- Christa McAuliffe School 906 students
- Mahatma K. Gandhi School 821 students
- Rafael Cordero y Molina 794 students
- Martin Luther King Jr. School 752 students
- Charles E. Trefurt School 668 students
- Dr. Michael Conti School 651 students
- James F. Murray School 642 students
- Alexander D. Sullivan School 638 students
- Alfred Zampella School 629 students
- Whitney M. Young Jr. School 623 students
Elementary schools elsewhere in Jersey City
- Jersey City Golden Door Charter School Jersey City Golden Door Charter School
- Learning Community Charter School The Learning Community Charter School
- Jersey City Community Charter School Jersey City Community Charter School
- The Ethical Community Charter School The Ethical Community Charter School School Distirct
- Soaring Heights Charter School Soaring Heights 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.