Betsy Ross Elementary

Betsy Ross Elementary operates as an intimate elementary campus in MAHWAH, New Jersey, overseen by Mahwah Township Public School District. Current enrollment sits at 238 students spanning grades K through 3. Enrollment runs roughly 41% below the state mean of about 405.

Mahwah Township Public School District runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 2,698 students. Betsy Ross Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Betsy Ross Elementary reports that the largest single group is White, at 70% of enrollment; the rest consists of 15% Asian, 10% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 55% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.1:1. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 5% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Bergen County's rate of about 28%.

With demographic context factored in, Betsy Ross Elementary ranks in the top 10% of New Jersey public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 63.4%; Betsy Ross Elementary posts 82.6%, +19.2 points above that line.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Bergen County indicate the typical household earns roughly $124,884 per year, about 53% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Bergen County's 291 public schools (combined enrollment of about 133,883 students), Betsy Ross Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Mahwah High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Betsy Ross Elementary comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 59.0%.

Betsy Ross Elementary operates from an outer-ring location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Betsy Ross Elementary's enrollment has climbed 17% since 2018, when it stood at 204 (now 238). The Asian share of enrollment ticked down from 20% to 15% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 12.6:1 in 2018 to 10.1:1 in 2025.

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