NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools NJ

Best-Resourced Schools in Fort Lee, NJ

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

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6
Schools
4,006
Students
51/100
Avg Resource Index
11.5:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Fort Lee has more public-school enrollment than 44% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Fort Lee's 6 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.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

3 of Fort Lee's 6 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

Fort Lee's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 89th 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 19-point gap between Fort Lee High School and School No. 1 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 56%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
89th percentile
Teacher staffing
92nd percentile

Lewis F. Cole Middle School accounts for 30.6% of all Fort Lee public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Fort Lee-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Elementary. 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

Fort Lee school enrollment varies 3.7× across entities

Fort Lee school enrollment ranges from 330 students (lowest) to 1,227 students (highest), a spread of 897 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

Fort Lee operates one school district — a single-district system

Fort Lee'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

Fort Lee student-teacher ratio is 11.5:1 — 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. Fort Lee High School 59
2. School No. 4 55
3. Lewis F. Cole Middle School 54
4. School No. 3 50
5. School No. 2 48
6. School No. 1 40

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Fort Lee

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 Fort Lee High School 69.7/100
  2. 2 School No. 4 69.0/100
  3. 3 Lewis F. Cole Middle School 67.7/100
  4. 4 School No. 2 65.5/100
  5. 5 School No. 3 65.0/100

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Which Fort Lee school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Fort Lee High School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Fort Lee schools in this federal-data comparison at 59/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Fort Lee, NJ? ▼

Fort Lee has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,006 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 11.5:1.

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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.