Cliffside Park High School

As a medium-sized 9-12 campus in CLIFFSIDE PARK, New Jersey, Cliffside Park High School instructs 1,314 students from grades 9 through 12, run under Cliffside Park School District. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 929 students each, so Cliffside Park High School sits 41% above that benchmark.

Within Cliffside Park School District, which oversees 5 schools and 3,135 students, Cliffside Park High School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Cliffside Park High School logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 77%. The remainder is composed of 19% White. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Cliffside Park High School has 94 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.7:1 average. Around 70% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Bergen County's rate of about 28%.

After controlling for student poverty, Cliffside Park High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.7%, the actual is 27.9%, a residual of +0.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Bergen County put median household income runs about $124,884, about 53% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 Cliffside Park High School is one.

The closest other public school is School #3, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Cliffside Park High School. On composite proficiency, Cliffside Park High School comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 42.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Cliffside Park High School's enrollment has expanded 8% since 2018, when it stood at 1,218 (now 1,314). Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 68% to 77%.

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