Fairmount

Fairmount, a big elementary-level community in HACKENSACK, New Jersey, overseen by Hackensack School District, serves 621 students, covering grades pre-K through 4. Compared to the state average of about 405 students per school, that is 53% above typical.

Within Hackensack School District, which oversees 6 schools and 5,376 students, Fairmount is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Fairmount records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 65% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 20% Black, 10% White, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 23% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Fairmount has 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. Around 56% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Bergen County runs at roughly 28%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Fairmount performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.3%, the actual is 31.8%, a residual of -3.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Bergen County indicate 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%. Fairmount is one of 291 public schools in Bergen County (combined enrollment of about 133,883 students).

Bergen County Academies is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Fairmount. On composite proficiency, Fairmount comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 52.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 5%: 594 students in 2018 compared to 621 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 54% to 65% over that span.

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