Garfield High School

Garfield High School is an average-sized four-year high school in GARFIELD, New Jersey, one of the schools within Garfield Public School District. The school hosts 1,258 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 35% bigger than the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 929 students.

Garfield Public School District runs 11 schools in total, collectively educating 4,762 students. Garfield High School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Garfield High School lists that 60% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest breaks down as 28% White, 10% Black. By comparison, Bergen County as a whole is about 23% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school lists 95 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.2:1. The state averages about 12.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 61% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Bergen County (around 28%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Garfield High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.0%, the actual is 20.0%, a residual of -13.0 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Bergen County) records that median household earnings sit near $124,884, roughly 53% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Bergen County runs 291 public schools (combined enrollment of about 133,883 students), of which Garfield High School is one.

Christopher Columbus School #8 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Garfield High School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 48.3%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 15%: 1,090 students in 2018 compared to 1,258 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 36% to 28%. Class-load math has rose: from 11.5:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 in 2025.

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