Alpine Elementary School

Set in SPARTA, New Jersey, Alpine Elementary School is a big elementary school, operated by Sparta Township Public School District. It hosts 759 students across grades pre-K through 2. Enrollment runs roughly 87% bigger than the state mean of about 405.

Within Sparta Township Public School District, which oversees 5 schools and 3,281 students, Alpine Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Alpine Elementary School lists that White students make up the majority at 71%; the rest comes out to 17% Hispanic, 4% Asian, 4% multiracial, 2% Black. By comparison, Sussex County as a whole is about 82% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Alpine Elementary School reports 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 7% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Sussex County (around 23%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Sussex County indicate the typical household earns roughly $116,186 per year, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Sussex County runs 46 public schools (combined enrollment of about 19,579 students), of which Alpine Elementary School is one.

Long Pond School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Alpine Elementary School operates from a town-based location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Alpine Elementary School has increased 14%, going from 668 students in 2018 to 759 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 91% to 71%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 in 2025.

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