Clara E Coleman School

Set in GLEN ROCK, New Jersey, Clara E Coleman School is an intimate K-5 school, run under Glen Rock Public School District. It serves 322 students across grades K through 5. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 405 students each, so Clara E Coleman School sits 20% smaller than that benchmark.

Glen Rock Public School District runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 2,531 students. Clara E Coleman School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Clara E Coleman School logs that 64% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 22% Asian, 9% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Bergen County as a whole is about 55% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. An estimated 1% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Bergen County runs at roughly 28%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Clara E Coleman School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 65.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 74.9%.

In the broader community, Bergen County reports that median household earnings sit near $124,884, roughly 53% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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), Clara E Coleman School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Glen Rock Middle School, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Clara E Coleman School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Clara E Coleman School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 76.4%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Clara E Coleman School has climbed 5%, going from 307 students in 2018 to 322 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 73% to 64% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 today.

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