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Enrollment
475
Elementary
DISTRICT 519 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SECAUCUS SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341485002902
Clarendon School
685 FIFTH ST, SECAUCUS, NJ 07094 · (201) 974-2012 · Hudson County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL475 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 40% 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.
- C+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
11.1:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.9:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
38%
181 students
DISTRICT 36% · STATE 41%
Community
1
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 84 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 75 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 74 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 77 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 83 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 82 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (84) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (82).
Student demographics
69%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · 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
Based on grade levels within Secaucus School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
50.0%
NJ avg 53.1% . +9.7pp since 2023
Math
53.2%
NJ avg 41.6% . +6.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 53 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 10 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 50.0% | 53.2% |
| 2023-24 | 40.3% | 46.3% |
% 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
43.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
45.3%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% 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 Clarendon School
Clarendon School's state test result (43.1% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clarendon School this school | 475 | 38.1% | 43.1% |
| James Monroe Elementary School Edison | 537 | 34.6% | 51.2% |
| Roosevelt Elementary School SOUTH PLAINFIELD | 472 | 35.6% | 48.1% |
| John Adams NORTH BRUNSWICK | 561 | 43.3% | 42.0% |
| Lincoln Elementary School BERGENFIELD | 443 | 37.9% | 66.7% |
| Chittick Elementary School EAST BRUNSWICK | 338 | 38.5% | 55.1% |
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 Clarendon School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Hudson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 43.1% | #680 of 1,290 | #25 of 84 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 53.2% | #529 of 1,319 ▲ 101 | #16 of 84 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 50.0% | #712 of 1,319 ▲ 167 | #33 of 84 ▲ 23 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 475 | #469 of 1,562 | #56 of 88 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.1:1 | #623 of 1,390 | #38 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.1% | #186 of 1,392 | #23 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 38.1% | #736 of 1,481 | #79 of 88 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +10.2% | #245 of 545 | #13 of 24 |
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
475
+5 (+1%) vs 2020
+23% since 1990-91, when it was 385
Student : Teacher
11.1:1
was 11.8:1
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 | 475 | 43 | 11.1:1 | 38% (181) |
| 2023-24 | 488 | 44.5 | 11.0:1 | 30% (148) |
| 2022-23 | 469 | 42.5 | 11.0:1 | 28% (129) |
| 2020-21 | 470 | 40 | 11.8:1 | 23% (108) |
| 2017-18 | 431 | 39 | 11.1:1 | 24% (104) |
| 2015-16 | 563 | 43 | 13.1:1 | 25% (139) |
| 2010-11 | 703 | 39 | 18.0:1 | 20% (138) |
| 2000-01 | 643 | 50 | 12.9:1 | 19% (123) |
| 1990-91 | 385 | 29 | 13.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Clarendon School.
Since 2017-18: students up 10% (431 to 475); teachers up 10% (39 to 43).
About Clarendon School
Clarendon School is a medium-sized elementary school for students in SECAUCUS, New Jersey. The school's 475 students are in kindergarten through 5.
Secaucus School District has 2,128 students spread across 4 schools.
The most common group at Clarendon School is Hispanic students, at 39%. Other groups make up 33% Asian, 22% White, and 4% multiracial. County-wide, about 41% of residents are Hispanic. Pick two students at random and there is a 69% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
A ratio of 11.1:1 comes from the school's 43 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is close to the 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey. The lunch program counts 38% of students at Clarendon School as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Hudson County is 68%.
allk12 grades Clarendon School a C+. The grade compares the school only with New Jersey public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
A school with Clarendon School's lunch-eligibility share in New Jersey is predicted to score 45.3%. Clarendon School scores 43.1%, 2.2 points below that line.
Census estimates describe Hudson County this way: the median household income is $91,795, about 49% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 11%. In all, Hudson County has 130 public schools and roughly 86,216 students.
The closest public school to Clarendon School is Huber Street School, about 0.7 miles away. Clarendon School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Clarendon School comes in 4th of 8 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Its location is classified as Suburb: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics.
Enrollment was essentially flat over 4 years: 470 in 2020-21, 475 in 2024-25.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss school safety, transportation, and start times at Clarendon School. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Hudson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
718,323
Census ACS
Median income
$91,795
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
49%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
130
86,216 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Secaucus School District
- Secaucus High SchoolHigh · 612 students
- Huber Street SchoolElementary · 563 students
- Secaucus Middle SchoolMiddle · 478 students
Other schools in SECAUCUS
- High Tech High SchoolHigh · 790 students
- Secaucus High SchoolHigh · 612 students
- Huber Street SchoolElementary · 563 students
- Secaucus Middle SchoolMiddle · 478 students
- Academy of Career and Technical EducationHigh · 246 students
Other Clarendon schools
One other US public school is named Clarendon. Clarendon School is the largest of the 2.
- Clarendon SchoolPHOENIX, AZ · 420 students
Nearby schools
- Huber Street School0.7 mi · 563
- Secaucus High School1.2 mi · 612
- Secaucus Middle School1.2 mi · 478
- McKinley Elementary School1.8 mi · 296
- Franklin Elementary School2.0 mi · 509
- Eugenio Maria de Hostos Center for Early Childhood Education2.1 mi · 300
Frequently asked questions
About Clarendon SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Clarendon School?
Clarendon School enrolls approximately 475 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Clarendon School serve?
Clarendon School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Clarendon School?
Approximately 11.1:1 students per teacher at Clarendon School.
What is the student diversity at Clarendon School?
Student demographics at Clarendon School are roughly 22% White, 39% Hispanic, 2% Black, 33% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Clarendon School?
Clarendon School is overseen by Secaucus School District in Hudson County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.