Elementary · Regular · Grades PK to 8
Salome Urena Elementary School, Newark, NJ
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 516
- Teachers (FTE)
- 30.0
- Students per teacher
- 17.2
- Grades
- PK to 8
This school's ratio is 1.6 higher than the district figure of 15.6. 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
- 284 First Avenue, Newark, NJ 07104
- Phone
- (973)733-8280
- District
- Newark Public School District
- County
- Essex County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- City: Large
- NCES school ID
- 341134003374
School meals
- Free lunch
- 386
- Reduced-price lunch
- 63
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 44987.0% 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 Newark Public School District
- Ann Street School 1,294 students
- Lafayette Street School 1,213 students
- First Avenue School 1,084 students
- Oliver Street School 1,034 students
- Wilson Avenue School 1,006 students
- McKinley Elementary School 917 students
- Mt Vernon Place School 905 students
- Elliott Street Elementary School 880 students
- South Street Elementary School 866 students
- East Ward Elementary School 854 students
- Abington Avenue School 842 students
- Thirteenth Avenue School 833 students
Elementary schools elsewhere in Newark
- Philip's Academy Charter School Phillip's Academy Charter School
- Link Community Charter School Link Community Charter School
- Newark Educators Community Charter School Newark Educators Community 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.