Enrollment
366
Elementary
DISTRICT 281 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GARFIELD PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340576000468
Christopher Columbus School #8
147 CEDAR STREET, GARFIELD, NJ 07026 · (973) 340-5038 · Bergen County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL366 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 61% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New Jersey public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
11.2:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.5:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
58%
214 students
DISTRICT 60% · STATE 41%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 14 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 51 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 56 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 62 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 73 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 54 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 56 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (51) is 9% smaller than its 5th grade class (56).
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 57% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
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NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
40.8%
NJ avg 53.1% . -11.5pp since 2023
Math
50.9%
NJ avg 41.6% . +11.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 51 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 12 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 11 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 40.8% | 50.9% |
| 2023-24 | 52.3% | 39.9% |
% Meeting or Exceeding Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: NJSLA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
43.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
34.2%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 34% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New Jersey's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Christopher Columbus School #8
Christopher Columbus School #8's state test result (43.4% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christopher Columbus School #8 this school | 366 | 58.5% | 43.4% |
| Thomas Jefferson School #9 Garfield | 368 | 60.1% | 56.2% |
| Washington Irving School #4 GARFIELD | 441 | 57.4% | 56.8% |
| Belmar Elementary BELMAR | 400 | 56.0% | 46.3% |
| Charles Olbon School Woodland Park | 404 | 52.5% | N/A |
| Merriam Avenue School NEWTON | 483 | 55.7% | 33.4% |
Matched among New Jersey elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Christopher Columbus School #8 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Bergen County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 43.4% | #671 of 1,290 | #122 of 137 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 50.9% | #570 of 1,319 ▲ 172 | #116 of 149 ▲ 18 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.8% | #913 of 1,319 ▼ 292 | #143 of 149 ▼ 16 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 366 | #820 of 1,562 | #61 of 173 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.2:1 | #668 of 1,390 | #70 of 151 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.9% | #646 of 1,392 | #90 of 151 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 58.5% | #476 of 1,481 | #24 of 154 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.5% | #405 of 798 | #44 of 85 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
366
+60 (+20%) vs 2020
+2% since 1990-91, when it was 358
Student : Teacher
11.2:1
was 10.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 366 | 32.7 | 11.2:1 | 58% (214) |
| 2023-24 | 392 | 38.1 | 10.3:1 | 52% (204) |
| 2022-23 | 315 | 32 | 9.8:1 | 44% (139) |
| 2020-21 | 306 | 30 | 10.2:1 | 61% (186) |
| 2017-18 | 409 | 32.6 | 12.6:1 | 62% (254) |
| 2015-16 | 431 | 34 | 12.7:1 | 60% (260) |
| 2010-11 | 400 | 33 | 12.1:1 | 62% (248) |
| 2000-01 | 425 | 37 | 11.5:1 | 52% (223) |
| 1990-91 | 358 | 16 | 22.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Christopher Columbus School #8.
Since 2017-18: students down 11% (409 to 366); teachers unchanged (32.6 to 32.7).
About Christopher Columbus School #8
Federal records list Christopher Columbus School #8 as an elementary school in GARFIELD, New Jersey. Classes run from pre-K through 5, and the school has 366 students.
Christopher Columbus School #8 belongs to Garfield Public School District, a district of 11 schools and 4,762 students.
Christopher Columbus School #8's enrollment has no majority group, and Hispanic students are the largest at 50%. The school is also 43% White and 5% Black. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 23%. The chance that two students picked at random at Christopher Columbus School #8 belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 56%.
Dividing enrollment by its 32.7 full-time-equivalent teachers gives a ratio of about 11.2:1. Elementary schools in New Jersey have a similar average ratio of 11.4:1. Eligible students account for 58% of enrollment in the free or reduced-price lunch program. That is higher than the 28% average for public schools in Bergen County.
Measured against New Jersey public elementary schools, Christopher Columbus School #8 receives a B. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Test results at Christopher Columbus School #8 are 9.3 points above what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (43.4% actual, 34.2% predicted).
Within Bergen County, median household income is about $124,884, about 53% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 5%. Federal data list 291 public schools in Bergen County, with a combined enrollment of about 133,883.
The closest public school to Christopher Columbus School #8 is Garfield High School, about 0.3 miles away. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Nearby schools with test data average 39.1% proficiency; Christopher Columbus School #8 posts 43.4%.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The 2024-25 enrollment of 366 was 20% higher than in 2020-21, when it was 306. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio rose to 11.2:1, from 10.2:1.
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Bergen County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
962,316
Census ACS
Median income
$124,884
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
53%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
291
133,883 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Garfield Public School District
- Garfield High SchoolHigh · 1,258 students
- Garfield Middle SchoolMiddle · 971 students
- Washington Irving School #4Elementary · 441 students
- Abraham Lincoln School #6Elementary · 385 students
- Thomas Jefferson School #9Elementary · 368 students
- Roosevelt School #7Elementary · 282 students
Other schools in GARFIELD
- Bergen Arts and Sciences Charter SchoolCombined · 1,276 students
- Garfield High SchoolHigh · 1,258 students
- Garfield Middle SchoolMiddle · 971 students
- Washington Irving School #4Elementary · 441 students
- Abraham Lincoln School #6Elementary · 385 students
- Thomas Jefferson School #9Elementary · 368 students
Nearby schools
- Garfield High School0.3 mi · 1,258
- Roosevelt School #70.5 mi · 282
- Garfield Public Preschool 3 at Headstart0.5 mi · 102
- Bergen Arts and Sciences Charter School0.6 mi · 1,276
- Garfield Public Preschool Annex0.7 mi · 105
- Washington Irving School #40.7 mi · 441
Frequently asked questions
About Christopher Columbus School #8What is the total enrollment at Christopher Columbus School #8?
Christopher Columbus School #8 enrolls approximately 366 students in grades PK-05.
Is Christopher Columbus School #8 an elementary, middle, or high school?
Christopher Columbus School #8 is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Christopher Columbus School #8 have?
Christopher Columbus School #8 employs 33 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.2:1.
What is the student diversity at Christopher Columbus School #8?
Student demographics at Christopher Columbus School #8 are roughly 43% White, 50% Hispanic, 5% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is Christopher Columbus School #8 in?
Christopher Columbus School #8 is part of Garfield Public School District.
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