NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools NJ

Best-Resourced Schools in Saddle Brook, NJ

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5 public K-12 schools in Saddle Brook 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
1,836
Students
55.2/100
Avg Resource Index
12.1:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Saddle Brook has more public-school enrollment than 10% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Saddle Brook Middle/High School enrolls 43.9% of Saddle Brook'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 Saddle Brook'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.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Saddle Brook lists only 5 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 58 to 806 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 90%
School count
Top 99%
Resource Index average
96th percentile
Teacher staffing
88th percentile

Saddle Brook Middle/High School accounts for 43.9% of all Saddle Brook public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Saddle Brook-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Combined. 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

Saddle Brook school enrollment varies 14× across entities

Saddle Brook school enrollment ranges from 58 students (lowest) to 806 students (highest), a spread of 748 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

Saddle Brook operates one school district — a single-district system

Saddle Brook'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

Saddle Brook student-teacher ratio is 12.1:1 — 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. Saddle Brook Middle/High School 60
2. Franklin School 58
3. Helen I. Smith School 56
4. Salome H. Long Memorial School 56
5. Washington School 46

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Saddle Brook

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 School 68.7/100
  2. 2 Franklin School 63.6/100
  3. 3 Helen I. Smith School 59.3/100
  4. 4 Saddle Brook Middle/High School 57.4/100
  5. 5 Salome H. Long Memorial School 55.8/100

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Which Saddle Brook school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Saddle Brook Middle/High School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Saddle Brook schools in this federal-data comparison at 60/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Saddle Brook, NJ? ▼

Saddle Brook has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 1,836 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 12.1:1.

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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.