Carlstadt Public School

Carlstadt Public School is a moderately sized K-5 school in CARLSTADT, New Jersey, run under Carlstadt Public School District. The school enrolls 478 students in grades pre-K through 8.

Carlstadt Public School sits inside Carlstadt Public School District, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Carlstadt Public School logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 42% White, 10% Asian, 3% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Bergen County as a whole is about 23% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. Roughly 44% of students at Carlstadt Public School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Bergen County's rate of about 28%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Carlstadt Public School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.3%, the actual is 49.1%, a residual of +6.8 points.

Across the wider county, Bergen County reports 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 Carlstadt Public School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Wood-Ridge Intermediate School, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Carlstadt Public School comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 50.5%.

Carlstadt Public School operates from a residential location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 10%: 534 students in 2018 compared to 478 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 59% to 42%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 12.1:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 today.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.