Fernbrook School

Fernbrook School is a mid-sized elementary school in RANDOLPH, New Jersey, part of Randolph Township School District. The school enrolls 474 students in grades K through 5.

Randolph Township School District comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 4,223 students; Fernbrook School is among them.

On demographics, Fernbrook School lists that the most-represented group is White (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school reports 36% Hispanic, 16% Asian, 3% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Morris County as a whole is about 68% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.1:1. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 26% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Fernbrook School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.0%, the actual is 47.7%, a residual of -4.3 points.

In the broader community, census data for Morris County shows the typical household earns roughly $137,326 per year, about 58% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. Across Morris County's 156 public schools (combined enrollment of about 72,239 students), Fernbrook School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Academy Street Elementary School, roughly 0.9 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Fernbrook School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 39.3%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Five-year trend. Fernbrook School's enrollment has contracted 11% since 2018, when it stood at 530 (now 474). Asian enrollment moved from 33% to 16% across the same window.

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