NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools NJ

Best-Resourced Schools in Elmwood Park, NJ

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5 public K-12 schools in Elmwood Park 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
2,597
Students
53.2/100
Avg Resource Index
12.4:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Elmwood Park has more public-school enrollment than 22% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Elmwood Park's 5 listed schools all sit inside one district, creating a compact governance structure with one budget, board, and reporting chain. That makes citywide comparisons cleaner than in places split across several districts, but it does not make the campuses interchangeable: elementary, middle, and high-school staffing needs differ. The ranked list is best read as variation inside one system rather than competition among separate local authorities.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

2 of Elmwood Park's 5 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

One district, but meaningful resource variation

Elmwood Park's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 93rd percentile among listed cities. Shared governance removes one source of policy variation, but it does not erase campus differences by grade span or enrollment. The 14-point gap between Gantner Avenue School and Gilbert Avenue School measures the remaining local spread. Use the district-level picture for common budget context, then compare the school components to see whether staffing, counseling, gifted-program reporting, or attendance accounts for each campus's position.

City enrollment
Top 78%
School count
Top 99%
Resource Index average
93rd percentile
Teacher staffing
85th percentile

Memorial Senior High School accounts for 31.7% of all Elmwood Park public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Elmwood Park-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

Elmwood Park school enrollment varies 2.4× across entities

Elmwood Park school enrollment ranges from 339 students (lowest) to 823 students (highest), a spread of 484 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

Elmwood Park operates one school district — a single-district system

Elmwood Park's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Elmwood Park student-teacher ratio is 12.4:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Gantner Avenue School 58
2. Memorial Senior High School 57
3. Memorial Middle School 57
4. Sixteenth Avenue School 50
5. Gilbert Avenue School 44

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Elmwood Park

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 Memorial Senior High School 67.6/100
  2. 2 Sixteenth Avenue School 67.4/100
  3. 3 Gilbert Avenue School 66.2/100
  4. 4 Memorial Middle School 66.1/100
  5. 5 Gantner Avenue School 63.6/100

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Which Elmwood Park school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Gantner Avenue School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Elmwood Park schools in this federal-data comparison at 58/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Elmwood Park, NJ? ▼

Elmwood Park has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,597 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 12.4:1.

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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.