NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools NJ

Best-Resourced Schools in Demarest, NJ

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5 public K-12 schools in Demarest from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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5
Schools
2,129
Students
57.2/100
Avg Resource Index
28.2:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Demarest has more public-school enrollment than 14% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Northern Valley Regional High School at Demarest enrolls 48.8% of Demarest's public-school students. That is enough concentration for one institution to pull the citywide enrollment, staffing, and Resource Index averages toward its own profile. The smaller campuses below should therefore be compared directly rather than inferred from the headline mean; their grade configurations and program footprints can be materially different even inside the same district.

Secondary campuses occupy an unusually large share

2 of the 5 listed Demarest schools are classified as high schools, a substantial share of the local portfolio. Advanced-course access, counseling, and graduation-stage staffing therefore have more weight in the city Resource Index average than they do in an elementary-heavy system.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

Demarest's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 97th percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 1st percentile. The 96-point percentile gap is a reminder that the index is not a class-size score: counselors, gifted-program reporting, and attendance also affect it. Compare those components directly when two schools have similar index totals; the same headline score can arise from a different mix of reported resources.

City enrollment
Top 86%
School count
Top 99%
Resource Index average
97th percentile
Teacher staffing
1st percentile

Northern Valley Regional High School at Demarest accounts for 48.8% of all Demarest public-school enrollment

That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Demarest a distant remainder — means Demarest-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Demarest school enrollment varies 4.7× across entities

Demarest school enrollment ranges from 221 students (lowest) to 1,038 students (highest), a spread of 817 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Demarest student-teacher ratio is 28.2:1 — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Northern Valley Regional High School at Demarest 69
2. Luther Lee Emerson School 61
3. County Road School 57
4. Demarest Middle School 51
5. Bergen County Institute for Science and Technology 48

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Demarest

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Bergen County Institute for Science and Technology 69.4/100
  2. 2 Northern Valley Regional High School at Demarest 61.1/100
  3. 3 Luther Lee Emerson School 58.5/100
  4. 4 Demarest Middle School 55.0/100
  5. 5 County Road School 52.3/100

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Which Demarest school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Northern Valley Regional High School at Demarest has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Demarest schools in this federal-data comparison at 69/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Demarest, NJ? ▼

Demarest has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,129 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 28.2:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.