NCES CCD 2024-25 8 schools NJ

Best-Resourced Schools in Roselle, NJ

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

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8
Schools
3,157
Students
52.9/100
Avg Resource Index
11.8:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Broad resource and staffing advantage

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Roselle has more public-school enrollment than 31% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Roselle 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

5 of Roselle's 8 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 2 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

Roselle lists only 8 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 10 to 926 students, a 93-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 69%
School count
Top 54%
Resource Index average
93rd percentile
Teacher staffing
90th percentile

Abraham Clark High School accounts for 29.3% of all Roselle public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Roselle-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

Roselle school enrollment varies 93× across entities

Roselle school enrollment ranges from 10 students (lowest) to 926 students (highest), a spread of 916 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. 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

Roselle student-teacher ratio is 11.8:1 — 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. Leonard V Moore Middle School 59
2. Grace Wilday Junior High School 58
3. Harrison Elementary School 57
4. Dr. Charles C. Polk School 55
5. Washington Elementary School 54
6. Abraham Clark High School 48
7. Kindergarten Success Academy 47
8. Raymond J. Lesniak Experience Strength & Hope Recovery Hs 45

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Roselle

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 Washington Elementary School 58.8/100
  2. 2 Dr. Charles C. Polk School 58.7/100
  3. 3 Kindergarten Success Academy 57.3/100
  4. 4 Leonard V Moore Middle School 53.9/100
  5. 5 Abraham Clark High School 53.5/100

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Which Roselle school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Leonard V Moore Middle School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Roselle 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 Roselle, NJ? ▼

Roselle has 8 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,157 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 11.8:1.

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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.