Enrollment
357
Elementary
DISTRICT 344 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·RIDGEWOOD PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341383000772
Hawes Elementary School
531 STEVENS AVENUE, RIDGEWOOD, NJ 07451 · (201) 670-2720 · Bergen County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL357 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 87% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-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
11.5:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.0:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
5%
18 students
DISTRICT 3% · STATE 41%
Community
0
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 | 41 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 66 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 61 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 54 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 70 | 20% |
| Grade 5 | 65 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (41) is 37% smaller than its 5th grade class (65).
Student demographics
66%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 59% · 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
77.4%
NJ avg 53.1% . -2.4pp since 2023
Math
77.6%
NJ avg 41.6% . +5.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 77 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 78 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 up about 5 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 77.4% | 77.6% |
| 2023-24 | 79.8% | 72.2% |
% 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
72.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
63.4%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 73% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 63% 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 Hawes Elementary School
Hawes Elementary School's state test result (72.7% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawes Elementary School this school | 357 | 5.0% | 72.7% |
| Woodmont School PINE BROOK | 366 | 3.3% | 71.8% |
| T. Baldwin Demarest Elementary School OLD TAPPAN | 374 | 0.8% | 71.6% |
| Woods Road Elementary School Hillsborough | 410 | 10.5% | 77.3% |
| Liberty Corner School Liberty Corner | 429 | 3.7% | 75.3% |
| Alexander Hamilton School GLEN ROCK | 300 | 2.3% | 85.7% |
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 Hawes Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Bergen County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 72.7% | #121 of 1,290 | #36 of 137 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 77.6% | #120 of 1,319 ▲ 54 | #37 of 149 ▲ 12 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 77.4% | #131 of 1,319 ▼ 45 | #45 of 149 ▼ 21 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 357 | #868 of 1,562 | #71 of 173 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.5:1 | #745 of 1,390 | #75 of 151 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.9% | #285 of 1,392 | #27 of 151 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 5.0% | #1,341 of 1,481 | #117 of 154 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.3% | #345 of 798 | #35 of 85 |
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
357
-36 (-9%) vs 2020
-4% since 1990-91, when it was 373
Student : Teacher
11.5:1
was 14.6:1
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 | 357 | 31 | 11.5:1 | 5% (18) |
| 2023-24 | 373 | 30.8 | 12.1:1 | 5% (17) |
| 2022-23 | 362 | 29.5 | 12.3:1 | 4% (15) |
| 2020-21 | 393 | 27 | 14.6:1 | 3% (12) |
| 2017-18 | 407 | 29.8 | 13.6:1 | 2% (8) |
| 2015-16 | 406 | 26 | 15.6:1 | 3% (11) |
| 2010-11 | 400 | 21 | 19.1:1 | 1% (4) |
| 2000-01 | 380 | 25 | 15.2:1 | 2% (7) |
| 1990-91 | 373 | 20 | 18.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hawes Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 12% (407 to 357); teachers up 4% (29.8 to 31).
About Hawes Elementary School
Hawes Elementary School is an elementary school with a street address in RIDGEWOOD, New Jersey. The latest federal count shows 357 students in kindergarten through 5.
Hawes Elementary School is part of Ridgewood Public School District, where 10 schools serve 5,419 students.
Federal enrollment data show White students as the largest group at Hawes Elementary School, at 44%. The rest of enrollment is 36% Asian, 11% Hispanic, and 7% multiracial. Among all residents of Bergen County, the White share is about 55%. Hawes Elementary School's diversity index is 66%, against a US figure of 70%.
At Hawes Elementary School, 31 full-time-equivalent teachers work with students, a ratio of about 11.5:1. That matches the 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey fairly closely. Roughly 5% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. The gap from the 28% average for public schools in Bergen County is 23 points.
Hawes Elementary School is graded A by allk12, scoring above 87% of New Jersey public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate on state tests with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Hawes Elementary School, the prediction is 63.4% and the result is 72.7%.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Bergen County show that the median household income is $124,884, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 53% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 5%. Besides Hawes Elementary School, Bergen County has 290 other public schools.
Of nearby public schools, Clara E Coleman School is the closest, at about 0.6 miles. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Hawes Elementary School. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Hawes Elementary School is 6th of 9 on proficiency.
Hawes Elementary School is coded as Suburb: Large in federal locale data.
Enrollment declined 9% from its 2020-21 level of 393. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.6:1 in 2020-21 to 11.5:1 in 2024-25.
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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 Ridgewood Public School District
- Ridgewood High SchoolHigh · 1,740 students
- George Washington Middle SchoolMiddle · 644 students
- Benjamin Franklin Middle SchoolMiddle · 627 students
- Ridge Elementary SchoolElementary · 448 students
- Willard Elementary SchoolElementary · 440 students
- Somerville Elementary SchoolElementary · 394 students
Other schools in RIDGEWOOD
- Ridgewood High SchoolHigh · 1,740 students
- George Washington Middle SchoolMiddle · 644 students
- Benjamin Franklin Middle SchoolMiddle · 627 students
- Ridge Elementary SchoolElementary · 448 students
- Willard Elementary SchoolElementary · 440 students
- Somerville Elementary SchoolElementary · 394 students
Nearby schools
- Clara E Coleman School0.6 mi · 322
- Midland Elementary School0.8 mi · 200
- Glen Rock Middle School0.9 mi · 642
- Glen Rock High School0.9 mi · 722
- Applied Technology High School1.0 mi · 348
- Somerville Elementary School1.0 mi · 394
Frequently asked questions
About Hawes Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Hawes Elementary School?
Hawes Elementary School enrolls approximately 357 students in grades KG-05.
Is Hawes Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Hawes Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Hawes Elementary School have?
Hawes Elementary School employs 31 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.5:1.
What is the student diversity at Hawes Elementary School?
Student demographics at Hawes Elementary School are roughly 44% White, 11% Hispanic, 1% Black, 36% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees Hawes Elementary School?
Hawes Elementary School is overseen by Ridgewood Public School District in Bergen County.
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