Evergreen Elementary School

Evergreen Elementary School operates as a mid-tier K-5 school in SCOTCH PLAINS, New Jersey, run under Scotch Plains-Fanwood School District. Current enrollment sits at 449 students spanning grades pre-K through 4.

Scotch Plains-Fanwood School District runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 5,673 students. Evergreen Elementary School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Evergreen Elementary School reports that 58% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school records 15% Hispanic, 13% Asian, 8% Black, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Union County as a whole is about 39% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Evergreen Elementary School has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.1:1. The state averages about 11.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 2% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than Union County's rate of about 52%.

After controlling for student poverty, Evergreen Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 64.9%; this one delivers 59.3%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Union County) logs that median household earnings sit near $103,202, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Union County runs 180 public schools (combined enrollment of about 99,046 students), of which Evergreen Elementary School is one.

Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Evergreen Elementary School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 65.6%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Evergreen Elementary School has climbed 13%, going from 396 students in 2018 to 449 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 72% to 58%.

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