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If you could change one rule at Fair Lawn High School, what would it be?
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Enrollment
1,687
High
DISTRICT 608 · STATE 929
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FAIR LAWN PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340498000410
Fair Lawn High School
14 00 BERDAN AVENUE, FAIR LAWN, NJ 07410 · (201) 794-5450 · Bergen County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL1,687 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 86% of New Jersey public high schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-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 high schools
Student : Teacher
13.5:1
125 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.2:1 · STATE 12.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
21%
358 students
DISTRICT 19% · STATE 41%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 430 | 25% |
| Grade 10 | 403 | 24% |
| Grade 11 | 423 | 25% |
| Grade 12 | 431 | 26% |
Student demographics
61%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · 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
Based on grade levels within Fair Lawn Public School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
69.1%
NJ avg 53.1% . -5.8pp since 2023
Math
64.6%
NJ avg 41.6% . +4.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 69 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 65 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 69.1% | 64.6% |
| 2023-24 | 74.9% | 59.8% |
% 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
59.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.5%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 60% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% 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 Fair Lawn High School
Fair Lawn High School's state test result (59.6% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fair Lawn High School this school | 1,687 | 21.2% | 59.6% |
| Mount Olive High School FLANDERS | 1,520 | 22.4% | 45.7% |
| Northern Burlington County Regional High School COLUMBUS | 1,324 | 15.8% | 42.0% |
| Summit High School SUMMIT | 1,198 | 19.6% | 68.6% |
| Colts Neck High School COLTS NECK | 1,430 | 23.6% | 48.9% |
| Hunterdon Central Regional High School District Flemington | 2,238 | 19.2% | 51.1% |
Matched among New Jersey high 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 Fair Lawn High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Bergen County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 59.6% | #67 of 397 | #15 of 48 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 64.6% | #46 of 400 ▲ 16 | #12 of 48 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 69.1% | #85 of 395 ▲ 14 | #20 of 48 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,687 | #63 of 442 | #3 of 51 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.5:1 | #282 of 388 | #42 of 49 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 60.8% | #133 of 389 | #19 of 49 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 21.2% | #275 of 405 | #25 of 49 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +13.9% | #64 of 173 | #6 of 16 |
Ranked against other public high 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
1,687
+135 (+9%) vs 2020
+44% since 1990-91, when it was 1,174
Student : Teacher
13.5:1
was 13.4:1
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 | 1,687 | 124.7 | 13.5:1 | 21% (358) |
| 2023-24 | 1,644 | 124.9 | 13.2:1 | 16% (261) |
| 2022-23 | 1,624 | 119.5 | 13.6:1 | 15% (236) |
| 2020-21 | 1,552 | 116 | 13.4:1 | 12% (189) |
| 2017-18 | 1,481 | 114.3 | 13.0:1 | 13% (187) |
| 2015-16 | 1,455 | 111 | 13.1:1 | 14% (201) |
| 2010-11 | 1,573 | 101 | 15.6:1 | 7% (115) |
| 2000-01 | 1,404 | 103 | 13.6:1 | 3% (42) |
| 1990-91 | 1,174 | 90 | 13.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Fair Lawn High School.
Since 2017-18: students up 14% (1,481 to 1,687); teachers up 9% (114.3 to 124.7).
About Fair Lawn High School
Fair Lawn High School is a large high school in New Jersey, located in FAIR LAWN. The school serves grades 9 through 12. Enrollment is 1,687 students. By comparison, high schools in New Jersey enroll about 929 students on average.
Fair Lawn Public School District, which runs Fair Lawn High School, has 9 schools and 5,472 students.
Of every 100 students at Fair Lawn High School, about 57 are White. Beyond that, enrollment is 22% Hispanic, 15% Asian, 3% Black, and 2% multiracial. Among Bergen County residents, the White share is about 55%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Fair Lawn High School scores 61%.
Based on 124.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, Fair Lawn High School has a ratio of 13.5:1. The gap from the 12.7:1 average for high schools in New Jersey is 0.8 students per teacher. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 21%.
On the allk12 Grade, Fair Lawn High School lands at A, ahead of 86% of New Jersey public high schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Fair Lawn High School falls in the middle 80% of New Jersey schools: 59.6% actual against 54.5% predicted.
In Bergen County, home to about 962,316 people, median household income comes to about $124,884, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 53%, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. There are 291 public schools in the county, enrolling about 133,883, Fair Lawn High School among them.
Fair Lawn High School's closest public school neighbor is John A. Forrest Elementary School, about 0.3 miles away. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Fair Lawn High School's average proficiency of 59.6% compares with 57.8% for its nearest scored neighbors.
Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's enrollment rose 9% from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
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Bergen County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
962,316
Census ACS
Median income
$124,884
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
53%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
291
133,883 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Fair Lawn Public School District
- Thomas Jefferson Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,100 students
- Memorial Middle SchoolMiddle · 655 students
- Radburn Elementary SchoolElementary · 445 students
- Henry B. Milnes Elementary SchoolElementary · 392 students
- Warren Point Elementary SchoolElementary · 391 students
- Westmoreland Elementary SchoolElementary · 359 students
Other schools in FAIR LAWN
- Thomas Jefferson Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,100 students
- Memorial Middle SchoolMiddle · 655 students
- Radburn Elementary SchoolElementary · 445 students
- Henry B. Milnes Elementary SchoolElementary · 392 students
- Warren Point Elementary SchoolElementary · 391 students
- Westmoreland Elementary SchoolElementary · 359 students
Nearby schools
- John A. Forrest Elementary School0.3 mi · 258
- Lyncrest Elementary School0.4 mi · 185
- Westmoreland Elementary School0.8 mi · 359
- Memorial Middle School0.8 mi · 655
- Students Transitioning and Achieving Real Success1.0 mi · 112
- Paterson STEAM High School1.0 mi · 379
Frequently asked questions
About Fair Lawn High SchoolHow large is Fair Lawn High School?
Fair Lawn High School enrolls approximately 1,687 students in grades 09-12.
Is Fair Lawn High School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Fair Lawn High School is a high school covering grades 09-12.
How many teachers does Fair Lawn High School have?
Fair Lawn High School employs 125 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.5:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Fair Lawn High School?
At Fair Lawn High School, the student body is approximately 57% White, 22% Hispanic, 3% Black, 15% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is Fair Lawn High School public or private?
Fair Lawn High School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Fair Lawn Public School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.