Walnut Avenue School
Cranford, NJ · Elementary School · Grades -1-2
Walnut Avenue School is a elementary school in Cranford, NJ with 294 students enrolled and a 71% proficiency rate. Part of Cranford Public School District. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
About This School
Walnut Avenue School is a elementary school located in Cranford, New Jersey. The school serves 294 students in grades -1-2. The student-to-teacher ratio is 13.4:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 71% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading.
1% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Walnut Avenue School is part of the Cranford Public School District in New Jersey.
How This School Compares
Walnut Avenue School has 294 students enrolled, making it smaller than the average school in Cranford Public School District (533 students). Its 71% proficiency rate is 2 percentage points below the district average of 73%. Compared to the New Jersey state average of 56%, the school performs 15 points higher. With a 13.4:1 student-teacher ratio, it offers smaller class sizes than the national average.
Frequently Asked Questions
Walnut Avenue School has 294 students enrolled in grades -1-2. The student-to-teacher ratio is 13.4:1.
According to EDFacts data, 71% of students at Walnut Avenue School meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Walnut Avenue School is part of the Cranford Public School District in Cranford, New Jersey. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
The methodology behind every numeric value on this page is publicly documented on the NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts portal and described in detail on this site’s methodology page. Refresh cadence varies by underlying series; the page surfaces the as-of date for each number so readers can trace any figure back to the source release.
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Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.