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Enrollment
432
Elementary
DISTRICT 441 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DUMONT PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340399000342
Grant Elementary School
100 GRANT AVE, DUMONT, NJ 07628 · (201) 387-3050 · Bergen County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL432 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 76% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New Jersey public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.0:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.8:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
17%
75 students
DISTRICT 17% · STATE 41%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 55 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 61 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 85 | 20% |
| Grade 3 | 83 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 80 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 68 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (55) is 19% smaller than its 5th grade class (68).
Student demographics
69%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 68% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
65.5%
NJ avg 53.1% . -2.2pp since 2023
Math
64.2%
NJ avg 41.6% . -2.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 66 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 64 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 65.5% | 64.2% |
| 2023-24 | 67.7% | 66.5% |
% Meeting or Exceeding Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: NJSLA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
63.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
56.7%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 63% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New Jersey's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Grant Elementary School
Grant Elementary School's state test result (63.0% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grant Elementary School this school | 432 | 17.4% | 63.0% |
| Memorial School MAYWOOD | 415 | 22.9% | 61.1% |
| Bertrand F. Gibbs Elementary School NEW MILFORD | 476 | 21.0% | 61.7% |
| Selzer Elementary\Middle School DUMONT | 535 | 12.9% | 56.2% |
| Oak View Elementary School Bloomfield | 399 | 14.5% | 77.0% |
| Washington School NUTLEY | 534 | 23.4% | 59.7% |
Matched among New Jersey elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Grant Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Bergen County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 63.0% | #280 of 1,290 | #65 of 137 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 64.2% | #344 of 1,319 ▼ 78 | #81 of 149 ▼ 11 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 65.5% | #372 of 1,319 ▼ 76 | #95 of 149 ▼ 13 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 432 | #596 of 1,562 | #38 of 173 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.0:1 | #1,098 of 1,390 | #121 of 151 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.1% | #185 of 1,392 | #10 of 151 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 17.4% | #1,086 of 1,481 | #88 of 154 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +15.5% | #144 of 545 | #11 of 64 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
432
+42 (+11%) vs 2020
+14% since 1990-91, when it was 378
Student : Teacher
13.0:1
was 13.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 432 | 33.1 | 13.0:1 | 17% (75) |
| 2023-24 | 452 | 31.4 | 14.4:1 | 10% (47) |
| 2022-23 | 472 | 31.5 | 15.0:1 | 10% (49) |
| 2020-21 | 390 | 29 | 13.4:1 | 8% (33) |
| 2017-18 | 374 | 30.7 | 12.2:1 | 9% (34) |
| 2015-16 | 350 | 30 | 11.7:1 | 9% (31) |
| 2010-11 | 401 | 27 | 14.8:1 | 14% (58) |
| 2000-01 | 428 | 30 | 14.3:1 | 6% (25) |
| 1990-91 | 378 | 17 | 22.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Grant Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 16% (374 to 432); teachers up 8% (30.7 to 33.1).
About Grant Elementary School
Grant Elementary School, located in DUMONT, New Jersey, is a medium-sized elementary school. It enrolled 432 students in kindergarten through 5 for the 2024-25 school year.
Dumont Public School District enrolls 2,467 students in 5 schools, including Grant Elementary School.
Hispanic students are the largest group at Grant Elementary School, with 38% of enrollment. Next come 36% White, 17% Asian, 5% multiracial, and 3% Black. The county population is about 23% Hispanic. Grant Elementary School has a diversity index of 69%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
The school employs the equivalent of 33.1 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 13.0:1. Among elementary schools in New Jersey, the typical ratio is 11.4:1. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 17%. On average, public schools in Bergen County report 28%.
The allk12 Grade for Grant Elementary School is A-. Compared with New Jersey public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 76% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate on state tests with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Grant Elementary School, the prediction is 56.7% and the result is 63.0%.
Bergen County has about 962,316 residents, and median household income is about $124,884, about 53% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. Federal data list 291 public schools in Bergen County, with a combined enrollment of about 133,883.
The shortest distance from Grant Elementary School to another public school is about 0.7 miles, to Honiss Elementary\Middle School. The five-mile area around Grant Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools with test data average 61.2% proficiency; Grant Elementary School posts 63.0%.
In the federal locale system, Grant Elementary School is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
A comparison of 2020-21 and 2024-25 shows enrollment up 11%, from 390 to 432.
The allk12 site hosts a discussion page for Grant Elementary School covering things like enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Bergen County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
962,316
Census ACS
Median income
$124,884
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
53%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
291
133,883 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Dumont Public School District
- Dumont High SchoolHigh · 704 students
- Honiss Elementary\Middle SchoolElementary · 624 students
- Selzer Elementary\Middle SchoolElementary · 535 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolElementary · 172 students
Other schools in DUMONT
- Dumont High SchoolHigh · 704 students
- Honiss Elementary\Middle SchoolElementary · 624 students
- Selzer Elementary\Middle SchoolElementary · 535 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolElementary · 172 students
Other Grant Elementary schools
34 other US public schools in 13 states are named Grant Elementary. Grant Elementary School is the 12th largest of the 35.
- Grant Elementary SchoolSOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ · 568 students
- Grant Elementary SchoolRIDGEFIELD PARK, NJ · 228 students
- Grant ElementaryLong Beach, CA · 951 students
- Grant ElementaryRedding, CA · 600 students
- Grant ElementarySanta Monica, CA · 562 students
Nearby schools
- Honiss Elementary\Middle School0.7 mi · 624
- Dumont High School0.8 mi · 704
- Luther Lee Emerson School0.9 mi · 221
- Edward H. Bryan0.9 mi · 555
- Selzer Elementary\Middle School0.9 mi · 535
- Haworth Public School0.9 mi · 498
Frequently asked questions
About Grant Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Grant Elementary School?
Grant Elementary School enrolls approximately 432 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Grant Elementary School serve?
Grant Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many teachers does Grant Elementary School have?
Grant Elementary School employs 33 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.0:1.
What is the student diversity at Grant Elementary School?
Student demographics at Grant Elementary School are roughly 36% White, 38% Hispanic, 3% Black, 17% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Grant Elementary School?
Grant Elementary School is overseen by Dumont Public School District in Bergen County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.