Slight Improvement in Hoboken's Schools: Calabro

The New Jersey Department of Education released its last week, which—among other things—showed that Hoboken still spends most money per pupil in the county.

But, are Hoboken’s parents getting bang for their buck?

In the 2008-2009 school year, Calabro was marked as “in need of improvement." The 2010 results are better for Calabro, but the school still scores under the district's or state's average in many instances. 

Calabro had 161 students in the 2009-2010 school year, which is one student less than in the previous year. 

According to the report card an average school day at Calabro is six hours and five minutes, which is 25 minutes less than the state average at six hours and 30 minutes. 

Of the day, five hours and 25 minutes is used for instructional time, according to the report card. The state's average is give hours and 42 minutes of instructional time per day. 

Here's a break down of the levels at Calabro, per grade. 

Third Grade:

The district's average for third grade language proficiency in the 2009-2010 acedemic year was 48.3 percent and the proficiency level for math is 38.3 percent. 

In the third grade level Calabro saw a dramatic increase in the advanced math levels, going up from 25 to 62.5 percent.  

Fourth Grade

The fourth grade proficiency levels dropped slightly for mathematical skills. But the fourth graders at Calabro got better at language, going up from 35.7 percent to 43.8 percent.

On the state level, 39.9 percent of New Jersey's students were proficient in language, which is slightly higher than the nation's 32.5 percent average. 

Fifth Grade

Sixth Grade 

Seventh Grade 

Eighth Grade