Dogwood Hill Elementary School

Dogwood Hill Elementary School is one of the compact primary schools in OAKLAND, New Jersey, run under Oakland Public School District, with 234 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 405 students per school, that is 42% leaner than typical.

Oakland Public School District comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,300 students; Dogwood Hill Elementary School is among them.

Demographically, Dogwood Hill Elementary School lists that the largest single group is White, at 68% of enrollment; the rest looks like 24% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 55% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Dogwood Hill Elementary School logs 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. An estimated 15% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Bergen County's rate of about 28%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Dogwood Hill Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.2%, the actual is 64.9%, a residual of +6.7 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Bergen County put the typical household earns roughly $124,884 per year, roughly 53% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Bergen County runs 291 public schools (combined enrollment of about 133,883 students), of which Dogwood Hill Elementary School is one.

Valley Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Dogwood Hill Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 61.2%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 3%: 241 students in 2018 compared to 234 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 12% to 24%.

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