Gilbert Avenue School

As a mid-tier primary school in ELMWOOD PARK, New Jersey, Gilbert Avenue School serves 456 students from grades pre-K through 5, overseen by Elmwood Park School District.

Across the 5 schools in Elmwood Park School District (2,597 students total), Gilbert Avenue School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Gilbert Avenue School lists that 47% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 29% White, 17% Black, 5% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Gilbert Avenue School has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.6:1. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 58% of students are eligible 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 higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Gilbert Avenue School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 34.6%; this one delivers 38.4%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Bergen County put the typical household earns roughly $124,884 per year, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Bergen County's 291 public schools (combined enrollment of about 133,883 students), Gilbert Avenue School is one campus in the mix.

Memorial Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Gilbert Avenue School at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 35.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Gilbert Avenue School has showed little movement, going from 446 students in 2018 to 456 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 34% to 47%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 19.1:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 today.

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