Fairview Elementary School

Fairview Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in Bloomfield, New Jersey, one of the schools within Bloomfield Township School District. The school caters to 499 students in grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 23% bigger than the state mean of about 405.

Bloomfield Township School District comprises 11 schools with combined enrollment of 6,400 students; Fairview Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Fairview Elementary School logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 28% Black, 12% White, 5% Asian, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 25% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.5:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 50% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Fairview Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.7%, the actual is 42.2%, a residual of +3.4 points.

In the broader community, Essex County reports that the typical household earns roughly $80,789 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Essex County's 249 public schools (combined enrollment of about 145,473 students), Fairview Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Berkeley Elementary School, roughly 0.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Fairview Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 42.8%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Fairview Elementary School's enrollment has decreased 9% since 2018, when it stood at 550 (now 499). White enrollment moved from 21% to 12% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 today.

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