NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools NJ

Best-Resourced Schools in Mahwah, NJ

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6 public K-12 schools in Mahwah 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
2,698
Students
65.3/100
Avg Resource Index
10.2:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Mahwah has more public-school enrollment than 24% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Mahwah'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 Mahwah'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 1 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

Mahwah'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 18-point gap between George Washington School and Betsy Ross Elementary 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 76%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
99th percentile
Teacher staffing
98th percentile

Mahwah High School accounts for 30.7% of all Mahwah public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Mahwah-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

Mahwah school enrollment varies 4.7× across entities

Mahwah school enrollment ranges from 177 students (lowest) to 829 students (highest), a spread of 652 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

Mahwah operates one school district — a single-district system

Mahwah'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

Mahwah student-teacher ratio is 10.2:1 — 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. George Washington School 71
2. Ramapo Ridge 68
3. Mahwah High School 67
4. Joyce Kilmer School 67
5. Lenape Meadows 66
6. Betsy Ross Elementary 53

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Mahwah

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 Lenape Meadows 63.3/100
  2. 2 Ramapo Ridge 61.2/100
  3. 3 Joyce Kilmer School 59.7/100
  4. 4 Mahwah High School 58.9/100
  5. 5 George Washington School 48.7/100

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Which Mahwah school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

George Washington School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Mahwah 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 Mahwah, NJ? ▼

Mahwah has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,698 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 10.2:1.

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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.