NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools NJ

Best-Resourced Schools in Roselle Park, NJ

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

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5
Schools
2,007
Students
55.6/100
Avg Resource Index
11.3:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Roselle Park has more public-school enrollment than 12% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Roselle Park's 5 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.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

3 of Roselle Park'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.

One district, but meaningful resource variation

Roselle Park's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 96th 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 5-point gap between Roselle Park Middle School and Sherman Elementary School 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 88%
School count
Top 99%
Resource Index average
96th percentile
Teacher staffing
93rd percentile

Roselle Park High School accounts for 29.5% of all Roselle Park public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Roselle Park-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 Park school enrollment varies 2.1× across entities

Roselle Park school enrollment ranges from 287 students (lowest) to 593 students (highest), a spread of 306 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

Roselle Park operates one school district — a single-district system

Roselle Park'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

Roselle Park student-teacher ratio is 11.3:1 — 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. Roselle Park Middle School 58
2. Roselle Park High School 57
3. Robert Gordon Elementary School 55
4. Ernest J. Finizio Jr. - Aldene School 55
5. Sherman Elementary School 53

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Roselle Park

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 Ernest J. Finizio Jr. - Aldene School 62.5/100
  2. 2 Sherman Elementary School 61.7/100
  3. 3 Roselle Park Middle School 61.3/100
  4. 4 Robert Gordon Elementary School 58.1/100
  5. 5 Roselle Park High School 55.5/100

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Which Roselle Park school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Roselle Park Middle School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Roselle Park schools in this federal-data comparison at 58/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Roselle Park, NJ? ▼

Roselle Park has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,007 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 11.3:1.

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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.