NCES CCD 2024-25 9 schools NJ

Best-Resourced Schools in Fair Lawn, NJ

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

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9
Schools
5,472
Students
65.7/100
Avg Resource Index
11.7:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Broad resource and staffing advantage

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Fair Lawn has more public-school enrollment than 59% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Fair Lawn lands in the upper national tier on both the average Resource Investment Index and teacher staffing intensity. Those measures come from different inputs: the index combines reported counselors, gifted access, attendance, and staffing, while the staffing percentile compares the city's student-teacher ratio directly. Agreement across both measures is stronger evidence of broad reported capacity than either score alone, though neither is a test-score rating or a guarantee about an individual classroom.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

7 of Fair Lawn's 9 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 0 middle and 1 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

One district, but meaningful resource variation

Fair Lawn's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 99th 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 20-point gap between John a. Forrest Elementary School and Thomas Jefferson Middle 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 41%
School count
Top 46%
Resource Index average
99th percentile
Teacher staffing
90th percentile

Fair Lawn High School accounts for 30.8% of all Fair Lawn public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Fair Lawn-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

Fair Lawn school enrollment varies 9.1× across entities

Fair Lawn school enrollment ranges from 185 students (lowest) to 1,687 students (highest), a spread of 1,502 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

Fair Lawn operates one school district — a single-district system

Fair Lawn'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

Fair Lawn student-teacher ratio is 11.7:1 — 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. John a. Forrest Elementary School 71
2. Lyncrest Elementary School 70
3. Henry B. Milnes Elementary School 69
4. Warren Point Elementary School 69
5. Westmoreland Elementary School 69
6. Radburn Elementary School 67
7. Fair Lawn High School 63
8. Memorial Middle School 62
9. Thomas Jefferson Middle School 51

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Fair Lawn

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 Lyncrest Elementary School 67.4/100
  2. 2 John a. Forrest Elementary School 66.9/100
  3. 3 Warren Point Elementary School 66.3/100
  4. 4 Memorial Middle School 65.4/100
  5. 5 Westmoreland Elementary School 64.8/100

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Which Fair Lawn school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

John a. Forrest Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Fair Lawn schools in this federal-data comparison at 71/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Fair Lawn, NJ? ▼

Fair Lawn has 9 public schools with a total enrollment of 5,472 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 11.7:1.

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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.