NCES CCD 2024-25 10 schools NJ

Best-Resourced Schools in Ridgewood, NJ

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

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10
Schools
5,419
Students
55.3/100
Avg Resource Index
12.7:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Broad resource and staffing advantage

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Ridgewood has more public-school enrollment than 59% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Ridgewood 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

6 of Ridgewood's 10 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 2 middle and 1 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Ridgewood lists only 10 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 126 to 1,740 students, a 14-fold range. In a portfolio this compact, the smallest record may be a specialized or nonstandard setting rather than a miniature version of the largest campus. That distinction affects how ratios and program fields should be read. Compare similarly configured grade levels first; combining the extremes into one city average conceals more than it explains.

City enrollment
Top 41%
School count
Top 41%
Resource Index average
96th percentile
Teacher staffing
82nd percentile

Ridgewood High School accounts for 32.1% of all Ridgewood public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Ridgewood-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

Ridgewood school enrollment varies 14× across entities

Ridgewood school enrollment ranges from 126 students (lowest) to 1,740 students (highest), a spread of 1,614 students. That spread reflects typical urban portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. 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

Ridgewood operates one school district — a single-district system

Ridgewood'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

Ridgewood student-teacher ratio is 12.7:1 — 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. Ridgewood High School 67
2. Benjamin Franklin Middle School 66
3. George Washington Middle School 61
4. Hawes Elementary School 60
5. Orchard Elementary School 59
6. Travell Elementary School 51
7. Glen School 51
8. Ridge Elementary School 48
9. Willard Elementary School 45
10. Somerville Elementary School 45

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Ridgewood

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 Hawes Elementary School 65.8/100
  2. 2 Benjamin Franklin Middle School 61.5/100
  3. 3 Orchard Elementary School 60.5/100
  4. 4 Ridgewood High School 60.2/100
  5. 5 Somerville Elementary School 59.7/100

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Which Ridgewood school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Ridgewood High School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Ridgewood schools in this federal-data comparison at 67/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Ridgewood, NJ? ▼

Ridgewood has 10 public schools with a total enrollment of 5,419 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 12.7:1.

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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.