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Union City School District, NJ: schools, enrollment and spending
Union City School District runs 14 public schools with 12,764 students in grades PK to 12. Its ratio of 15.1 students per teacher is 3.4 higher than the New Jersey figure of 11.7.
At a glance
- Schools
- 14
- Students
- 12,764
- Teachers (FTE)
- 847
- Students per teacher
- 15.1
- NJ: 11.7 · US: 15.3
- Address
- 3912 Bergen Turnpike, Union City, NJ 07087
- Phone
- (201)271-2289
- County
- Hudson County
- Locale
- Suburb: Large
- Grades offered
- PK to 12
- Agency type
- Regular local school district
- NCES district ID
- 3416380
- State district ID
- NJ-175240
- Total staff (FTE)
- 2,205
- School counselors (FTE)
- 28.0About 456 students per counselor.
- School administrators (FTE)
- 41.0
Students per teacher compared
This district15.1
New Jersey11.7
United States15.3
2020 finance data
From the F-33 School District Finance Survey for fiscal year 2020, in nominal dollars. Enrollment used for per-pupil figures is the finance survey count (13,101), which can differ from 2024-25 enrollment.
- Total revenue
- $317.8 million
- Federal revenue
- $33.6 million
- State revenue
- $267.6 million
- Local revenue
- $16.6 million
- Total spending
- $315.1 million
- Spending per pupil
- $24,051
- Salaries
- $142.2 million45.1% of total spending.
- Long-term debt (end of year)
- $0
Where revenue came from
- Federal: 10.6%
- State: 84.2%
- Local: 5.2%
New Jersey overall
- Federal: 5.1%
- State: 41.6%
- Local: 53.2%
Spending per pupil compared
This district$24,051
New Jersey$25,026
United States$16,826
Schools in Union City School District
By level: 2 high, 2 middle, 10 elementary. A CEP school serves free meals to all students.
| Colin Powell Elementary School | Elementary | K to 5 | 692 | 13.3 |
| Emerson Middle School | Middle | 6 to 8 | 999 | 14.9 |
| Eugenio Maria de Hostos Center for Early Childhood Education | Elementary | PK to K | 300 | 7.1 |
| George Washington Elementary School | Elementary | K to 6 | 776 | 14.1 |
| Hudson Elementary School | Elementary | PK to 3 | 320 | 11.0 |
| Jefferson Elementary School | Elementary | PK to 4 | 272 | 10.1 |
| Jose Marti STEM Academy | High | 9 to 12 | 625 | 11.4 |
| Robert Waters Elementary School | Elementary | PK to 6 | 983 | 13.1 |
| Sara M. Gilmore Academy | Elementary | 1 to 8 | 400 | 14.3 |
| Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School | Elementary | PK to 6 | 871 | 15.3 |
| Thomas A Edison Elementary School | Elementary | PK to 6 | 767 | 10.5 |
| Union City High School | High | 9 to 12 | 3,147 | 17.4 |
| Union Hill Middle School | Middle | 7 to 8 | 865 | 14.7 |
| Veterans' Memorial Elementary School | Elementary | PK to 5 | 502 | 13.2 |
Nearby and related
Other districts in Hudson County
- Jersey City Public Schools 25,951 students
- Bayonne School District 10,825 students
- West New York School District 8,008 students
- North Bergen School District 7,082 students
- Kearny School District 5,484 students
- Hoboken Public School District 3,702 students
- Harrison Public Schools 2,466 students
- Hudson County Schools of Technology School District 2,332 students
- Secaucus School District 2,144 students
- BelovED Community Charter 1,573 students
- Weehawken Public School District 1,359 students
- Empowerment Academy Charter School 1,272 students
- Guttenberg School District 983 students
- Hudson Arts and Science Charter School 848 students
- Jersey City Golden Door Charter School 662 students
More in New Jersey
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Finance figures are 2020 finance data in nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.