Garfield Early Childhood Learning Center

Garfield Early Childhood Learning Center is an elementary school of small scale in GARFIELD, New Jersey, one of the schools within Garfield Public School District, enrolling 204 students in grade pre-K. Compared to the state average of about 405 students per school, that is 50% smaller than typical.

Within Garfield Public School District, which oversees 11 schools and 4,762 students, Garfield Early Childhood Learning Center is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Garfield Early Childhood Learning Center lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 42% White, 4% Black, 3% Asian. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

On the resource side, On paper, Garfield Early Childhood Learning Center has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. Roughly 48% of students at Garfield Early Childhood Learning Center qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Bergen County (around 28%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Bergen County put median household income runs about $124,884, roughly 53% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Bergen County runs 291 public schools (combined enrollment of about 133,883 students), of which Garfield Early Childhood Learning Center is one.

Garfield Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Garfield Early Childhood Learning Center.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 32%: 298 students in 2018 compared to 204 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 33% to 50%.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.