Frank W. Gavlak Elementary School

As a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community in WALLINGTON, New Jersey, Frank W. Gavlak Elementary School teaches 361 students from grades 3 through 6, operated by Wallington Boro School District.

Within Wallington Boro School District, which oversees 3 schools and 1,159 students, Frank W. Gavlak Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Frank W. Gavlak Elementary School shows that 58% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school logs 37% Hispanic, 4% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Bergen County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting Frank W. Gavlak Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. About 50% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, 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.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Frank W. Gavlak Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.0%, the actual is 48.8%, a residual of +9.8 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Bergen County indicate the typical household earns roughly $124,884 per year, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Bergen County's 291 public schools (combined enrollment of about 133,883 students), Frank W. Gavlak Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Wallington Junior Senior High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Frank W. Gavlak Elementary School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 52.6%.

Frank W. Gavlak Elementary School operates from a residential location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Frank W. Gavlak Elementary School has decreased 22%, going from 462 students in 2018 to 361 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 26% to 37% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 today.

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