NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools NJ

Best-Resourced Schools in Franklin Lakes, NJ

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

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Schools
2,331
Students
68.2/100
Avg Resource Index
8.6:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Franklin Lakes has more public-school enrollment than 17% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Ramapo High School enrolls 50.0% of Franklin Lakes'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.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

2 of Franklin Lakes'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.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 6-point gap between Franklin Avenue Middle School and High Mountain Road School shows the range hidden by Franklin Lakes's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 83%
School count
Top 99%
Resource Index average
99th percentile
Teacher staffing
99th percentile

Ramapo High School accounts for 50.0% of all Franklin Lakes public-school enrollment

That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Franklin Lakes a distant remainder — means Franklin Lakes-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. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Franklin Lakes school enrollment varies 5.0× across entities

Franklin Lakes school enrollment ranges from 231 students (lowest) to 1,166 students (highest), a spread of 935 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

Franklin Lakes student-teacher ratio is 8.6:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)

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 below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Franklin Avenue Middle School 72
2. Colonial Road School 69
3. Ramapo High School 68
4. High Mountain Road School 66
5. Woodside Avenue School 66

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Franklin Lakes

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 Woodside Avenue School 44.3/100
  2. 2 Colonial Road School 44.1/100
  3. 3 Franklin Avenue Middle School 40.8/100
  4. 4 High Mountain Road School 33.0/100
  5. 5 Ramapo High School 31.3/100

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Which Franklin Lakes school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Franklin Avenue Middle School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Franklin Lakes schools in this federal-data comparison at 72/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Franklin Lakes, NJ? ▼

Franklin Lakes has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,331 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 8.6:1.

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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.