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Enrollment
599
Elementary
DISTRICT 567 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WEST NEW YORK SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341758002950
Harry L Bain
6200 BROADWAY, WEST NEW YORK, NJ 07093 · (201) 553-4095 · Hudson County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL599 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 55% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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
15.6:1
38 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.5:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
86%
515 students
DISTRICT 86% · 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 | 75 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 75 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 71 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 96 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 86 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 109 | 18% |
| Grade 6 | 87 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (75) is 14% smaller than its 6th grade class (87).
Student demographics
10%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 11% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within West New York School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
43.9%
NJ avg 53.1% . +11.3pp since 2023
Math
35.4%
NJ avg 41.6% . +5.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 35 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 11 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 43.9% | 35.4% |
| 2023-24 | 32.6% | 29.7% |
% 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
33.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
19.1%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 34% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 19% 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 Harry L Bain
Harry L Bain's state test result (33.6% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harry L Bain this school | 599 | 86.0% | 33.6% |
| Maria Varisco Rogers Charter School NEWARK | 572 | 88.5% | 39.9% |
| Christopher Columbus School No. 15 ELIZABETH | 672 | 86.3% | 24.4% |
| Albio Sires Elementary School WEST NEW YORK | 518 | 88.2% | 34.1% |
| Gloria M Sabater Elementary School VINELAND | 678 | 83.2% | 12.9% |
| School 24 PATERSON | 668 | 85.0% | 16.4% |
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 Harry L Bain ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Hudson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 33.6% | #895 of 1,290 | #54 of 84 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 35.4% | #871 of 1,319 ▲ 68 | #39 of 84 ▲ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 43.9% | #857 of 1,319 ▲ 168 | #51 of 84 ▲ 20 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 599 | #231 of 1,562 | #41 of 88 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.6:1 | #1,330 of 1,390 | #80 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 10.3% | #1,371 of 1,392 | #80 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 86.0% | #114 of 1,481 | #10 of 88 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.1% | #293 of 798 | #34 of 61 |
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
599
-43 (-7%) vs 2020
-18% since 1990-91, when it was 734
Student : Teacher
15.6:1
was 14.3:1
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 | 599 | 38.4 | 15.6:1 | 86% (515) |
| 2023-24 | 632 | 47.4 | 13.3:1 | 79% (498) |
| 2022-23 | 650 | 48.4 | 13.4:1 | 82% (535) |
| 2020-21 | 642 | 45 | 14.3:1 | 79% (509) |
| 2017-18 | 697 | 48 | 14.5:1 | 79% (553) |
| 2015-16 | 678 | 48 | 14.1:1 | 82% (559) |
| 2010-11 | 600 | 45 | 13.3:1 | 70% (422) |
| 2000-01 | 899 | 58 | 15.5:1 | 62% (557) |
| 1990-91 | 734 | 45 | 16.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Harry L Bain.
Since 2017-18: students down 14% (697 to 599); teachers down 20% (48 to 38.4).
About Harry L Bain
Harry L Bain is a medium-sized elementary school with its address in WEST NEW YORK, New Jersey. It educates 599 students in kindergarten through 6. The school's enrollment is 48% bigger than the 405 average for elementary schools in New Jersey.
West New York School District enrolls 7,399 students, and its 9 schools include Harry L Bain.
About 95% of the student body at Harry L Bain is Hispanic. Smaller groups are 3% White. County-wide, 41% of Hudson County residents are Hispanic. Harry L Bain's diversity index is 10%, against a US figure of 70%.
The school employs the equivalent of 38.4 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 15.6:1. That is higher than the 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 86%. Public schools in Hudson County average 68%.
Harry L Bain is graded B by allk12, scoring above 55% of New Jersey public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 19.1% for Harry L Bain. The school posts 33.6%, 14.5 points above the prediction.
Hudson County has about 718,323 residents, and the median household income is $91,795, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 49% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 11%. In all, Hudson County has 130 public schools and roughly 86,216 students.
The nearest other public school, Albio Sires Elementary School, is about 0.2 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, Harry L Bain is 3rd of 8 nearby schools with test data.
NCES describes the area around Harry L Bain as Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school enrolled 599 students in 2024-25, 43 fewer than the 642 it had in 2020-21. The student-to-teacher ratio went up from 14.3:1 to 15.6:1.
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Hudson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
718,323
Census ACS
Median income
$91,795
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
49%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
130
86,216 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in West New York School District
- Memorial High SchoolHigh · 2,345 students
- West New York Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,087 students
- Public School Number OneElementary · 758 students
- Public School Number TwoElementary · 621 students
- Public School Number FiveElementary · 570 students
- Albio Sires Elementary SchoolElementary · 518 students
Other schools in WEST NEW YORK
- Memorial High SchoolHigh · 2,345 students
- West New York Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,087 students
- Public School Number OneElementary · 758 students
- Public School Number TwoElementary · 621 students
- Public School Number FiveElementary · 570 students
- Albio Sires Elementary SchoolElementary · 518 students
Nearby schools
- Albio Sires Elementary School0.2 mi · 518
- Anna L. Klein0.3 mi · 977
- West New York Middle School0.4 mi · 1,087
- Memorial High School0.4 mi · 2,345
- Public School Number One0.5 mi · 758
- Public School Number Five0.5 mi · 570
Frequently asked questions
About Harry L BainHow large is Harry L Bain?
Harry L Bain enrolls approximately 599 students in grades KG-06.
What age range does Harry L Bain serve?
Harry L Bain serves students from grade KG through grade 06.
How many teachers does Harry L Bain have?
Harry L Bain employs 38 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.6:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Harry L Bain?
At Harry L Bain, the student body is approximately 3% White, 95% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is Harry L Bain public or private?
Harry L Bain is a public K-12 school, overseen by West New York School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.