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For the 2019-2020 school year, all students in the Jersey City Public School PS #16 Cornelia Bradford school zone enrolled in the Pre-K3 and Pre-K4 program will be bused to Danforth Avenue Early Childhood Center.  Students who have been attending Pre-K4 at Danforth Avenue in the 2018-2019 school year are automatically guaranteed Kindergarten placement at PS #16 on Sussex St. in Paulus Hook for the 2019-2020 school year.  Newly enrolled Kindergarten students, on the other hand, will be bused to Danforth Avenue, likely forming two classrooms.

Similarly, students not enrolled in the public Pre-K4 program at Danforth by October 15, 2019 will not be guaranteed a spot for Kindergarten for the 2020-2021 school year at the PS #16 main building.  These students will likely be bused to Danforth Avenue for Kindergarten for the 2020-2021 school year.

Check back for more information about grades 1-5 soon.

The Jersey City Public Schools Early Childhood Department is holding another late registration day tomorrow, Thursday June 6, 2019 for Pre-K3 and Pre-K4.

This late registration will be held at the Glenn D. Cunningham Center at 218 Ocean Avenue (at the corner of Danforth Avenue) from 8:30am until 7:00pm.  

Parents must bring the child’s birth certificate (or copy); 2 proofs of residency; child’s immunization records and the child must accompany the parent.

At the May 31, 2019 JCBOE meeting, the following 2019-2020 Proposed Jersey City Public Schools District Calendar was made available.  Click here for JerseyCityEd’s one-page version of the calendar for parents.  Also, see how to subscribe to our calendar to get updates directly into your favorite calendar app.

 

The Wall Street Journal recently reported new details about the The College Board’s plans to calculate an adversity score to every student who takes the SAT.  The adversity score incorporates 15 factors related to crime, poverty, family, and education to provide admissions officers an indication of how much hardship students have overcome, or alternatively, how much privilege students have enjoyed.

What specific factors will be included?

• Neighborhood Crime Rate
• Neighborhood Poverty Rate
• Neighborhood Housing Values
• Neighborhood Vacancy Rate
• Median Family Income
• Single Parent Household
• Family Education Level
• English as a Second Language (ESL)
• Undermatching
• Curricular Rigor
• Free Lunch Rate
• AP Opportunity

Standardized test scores, like the SAT, are often the target of criticism, as students of wealthy, educated parents on average perform better than their peers, and the PARCC scores summarized here on Jersey City Ed are no exception.  Some of the statistics quoted by the WSJ, sourced from the College Board, support the notion that test scores are too heavily influenced by race and socioeconomic factors:

Average SAT Scores by Race

• Asian: 1223
• White: 1123
• Overall: 1068
• Hispanic: 990
• Black: 946

Average SAT Scores by Household Income

• >$200,000:                1230
• $140,001-$200,000: 1170
• $100,001-$140,000: 1140
• $80,001-$100,000:   1120
• $60,001-$80,000:     1090
• $40,001-$60,000:     1060
• $20,000-$40,000:     1020
• <$20,000:                  970

Average SAT Scores by Highest Education Level

• Graduate Degree:          1197
• Bachelor’s Degree:        1129
• Associate Degree:          1039
• High-school diploma:   1005
• No diploma:                    944

The College Board acknowledges that the college admissions process may be too heavily influenced by wealth, privilege, and connections, and while it says the SAT score should be not be used in isolation to rank students or colleges, the College Board stands by its effort to offer colleges this one objective measure of aptitude.  Now they seek to create an objective measure of adversity, too.

June 19, 20, and 21 will be half days (12:45 Dismissal), and June 21, 2019 will be the last day of school for Jersey City Public School students.

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Jeana Corker, parent and volunteer, is coordinating a tour of PS 22 (Webb Elementary) for prospective parents. Following a tour of the classrooms, there will be a Q&A with a few current pre-K 3 parents of both Cordero and Webb elementary schools.

It will be held on Thursday, May 16 at 6:30pm. Dr. Anderson, principal of PS 22, has offered to host the event at PS 22, located at 264 Van Horne St.

Please RSVP by commenting on this post or reaching out to us via our contact us page.

Registration will begin March 1 for new students enrolling into the Jersey City Public Schools Pre-K3 and Pre-K4 programs for the 2019-2020 school year.  Pre-K Registration will take place until March 29, 2019 daily from 9:00 am until 11:00 am.

See the JCBOE Registration Announcement here.

On October 20, 2018, we detected an update on the State of New Jersey’s website when 2018 statewide PARCC Test data was released.  We have analyzed the data and reported the results on our PARCC Score Reports page.

What are the main takeaways this year?

High Schools: McNair and Infinity Institute remain the top performing high schools in the area by a wide margin.  County Prep and Liberty High School rank as the next two schools.

Middle Schools: Infinity and AEP at MS 4 and Academy 1 remain the top performing middle schools.

Grammar Schools: Soaring Heights Charter School, LCCS, PS 5, and PS 27 all ranked quite highly among schools accommodating both elementary and middle school students.  Soaring Heights ranked number one, while PS 27 Alfred Zampella had 44 8th grade students that performed on par with AEP students on the Algebra 1 test.

Elementary Schools: PS 16 remains the positive outlier among elementary schools, but Jersey City Global Charter School and PS 6 rank as the next two schools.  Right on their heels are PS 33 and PS 25.

For more information on PARCC scores for Jersey City Public Schools, check out the JCBOE’s 2018 performance report here.