Abraham Lincoln School #6

Located at 111 PALISADE AVE, in GARFIELD, New Jersey, Abraham Lincoln School #6 is a reasonably sized primary school that works with 385 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under Garfield Public School District.

Across the 11 schools in Garfield Public School District (4,762 students total), Abraham Lincoln School #6 accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Abraham Lincoln School #6 lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 68% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 22% White, 7% Black. By comparison, Bergen County as a whole is about 23% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting Abraham Lincoln School #6 tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 68% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Bergen County (around 28%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Abraham Lincoln School #6 performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.1%, the actual is 29.6%, a residual of +0.6 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Bergen County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $124,884 per year, roughly 53% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Bergen County runs 291 public schools (combined enrollment of about 133,883 students), of which Abraham Lincoln School #6 is one.

The closest other public school is James Madison School #10, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Abraham Lincoln School #6 at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 27.6%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 9%: 421 students in 2018 compared to 385 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share rose from 17% to 22%.

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