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Enrollment
392
Elementary
DISTRICT 338 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FAIR LAWN PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340498000416
Henry B. Milnes Elementary School
8-01 PHILLIP ST, FAIR LAWN, NJ 07410 · (201) 794-5550 · Bergen County
GRADES KG–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL392 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 94% 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.
- 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
12.2:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.0:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
17%
68 students
DISTRICT 19% · 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 | 71 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 74 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 76 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 82 | 21% |
| Grade 4 | 89 | 23% |
This year's kindergarten class (71) is 20% smaller than its 4th grade class (89).
Student demographics
60%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · 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
73.3%
NJ avg 53.1% . +0.8pp since 2023
Math
77.6%
NJ avg 41.6% . +1.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 73 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 have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 73.3% | 77.6% |
| 2023-24 | 72.5% | 76.4% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NJ schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
74.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
56.7%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+18.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 75% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 57% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 18 points, placing it in New Jersey's top 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 Henry B. Milnes Elementary School
Henry B. Milnes Elementary School's state test result (74.8% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Henry B. Milnes Elementary School this school | 392 | 17.3% | 74.8% |
| John F. Kennedy Elementary School WAYNE | 387 | 14.2% | 64.4% |
| Lenape Meadows MAHWAH | 418 | 18.2% | 65.2% |
| Mill Lake MONROE TWP | 462 | 17.5% | 50.6% |
| Warren Point Elementary School FAIR LAWN | 391 | 19.2% | 76.3% |
| Joyce Kilmer School MAHWAH | 394 | 12.2% | 61.2% |
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 Henry B. Milnes Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Bergen County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 74.8% | #90 of 1,290 | #27 of 137 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 77.6% | #118 of 1,319 ▼ 12 | #35 of 149 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 73.3% | #199 of 1,319 ▲ 3 | #62 of 149 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 392 | #729 of 1,562 | #46 of 173 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.2:1 | #922 of 1,390 | #95 of 151 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 60.5% | #477 of 1,392 | #61 of 151 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 17.3% | #1,088 of 1,481 | #89 of 154 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.2% | #200 of 798 | #24 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
392
-27 (-6%) vs 2020
-15% since 1990-91, when it was 459
Student : Teacher
12.2:1
was 13.5:1
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 | 392 | 32.2 | 12.2:1 | 17% (68) |
| 2023-24 | 390 | 31.7 | 12.3:1 | 13% (52) |
| 2022-23 | 428 | 32.1 | 13.3:1 | 11% (47) |
| 2020-21 | 419 | 31 | 13.5:1 | 7% (29) |
| 2017-18 | 479 | 34.7 | 13.8:1 | 5% (26) |
| 2015-16 | 457 | 32 | 14.3:1 | 9% (41) |
| 2010-11 | 389 | 25 | 15.6:1 | 6% (24) |
| 2000-01 | 422 | 28 | 15.1:1 | 5% (19) |
| 1990-91 | 459 | 26 | 17.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Henry B. Milnes Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 18% (479 to 392); teachers down 7% (34.7 to 32.2).
About Henry B. Milnes Elementary School
Henry B. Milnes Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school located in FAIR LAWN, New Jersey. The school covers kindergarten through 4 and reported 392 students in 2024-25.
Fair Lawn Public School District is made up of 9 schools with 5,472 students in all.
The student body at Henry B. Milnes Elementary School is 57% White. The rest of enrollment is 21% Asian, 16% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, and 2% Black. Among Bergen County residents, the White share is about 55%. A diversity index of 60% means there is a 60% chance two randomly chosen students at Henry B. Milnes Elementary School are from different groups.
On staff are 32.2 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 12.2:1. The average for elementary schools in New Jersey is 11.4:1, so this school has more students per teacher. About 17% of students at Henry B. Milnes Elementary School are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Bergen County is 28%.
Among New Jersey public elementary schools, Henry B. Milnes Elementary School outscored 94%, which works out to an A on the allk12 Grade.
Compared with New Jersey schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Henry B. Milnes Elementary School does better than predicted by 18.2 points. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 74.8%; the prediction is 56.7%.
For the population of Bergen County, the median household earns about $124,884 a year, about 53% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 5%. Henry B. Milnes Elementary School shares Bergen County with 290 other public schools.
Thomas Jefferson Middle School is the nearest public school to Henry B. Milnes Elementary School, about 0.1 miles away. Henry B. Milnes Elementary School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Henry B. Milnes Elementary School comes in 5th of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
The federal government classifies Henry B. Milnes Elementary School's location as Suburb: Large.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, Henry B. Milnes Elementary School had a net loss of 27 students, or 6%. The ratio was 13.5:1 in 2020-21 and 12.2:1 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 Fair Lawn Public School District
- Fair Lawn High SchoolHigh · 1,687 students
- Thomas Jefferson Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,100 students
- Memorial Middle SchoolMiddle · 655 students
- Radburn Elementary SchoolElementary · 445 students
- Warren Point Elementary SchoolElementary · 391 students
- Westmoreland Elementary SchoolElementary · 359 students
Other schools in FAIR LAWN
- Fair Lawn High SchoolHigh · 1,687 students
- Thomas Jefferson Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,100 students
- Memorial Middle SchoolMiddle · 655 students
- Radburn Elementary SchoolElementary · 445 students
- Warren Point Elementary SchoolElementary · 391 students
- Westmoreland Elementary SchoolElementary · 359 students
Nearby schools
- Thomas Jefferson Middle School0.1 mi · 1,100
- Warren Point Elementary School0.7 mi · 391
- Radburn Elementary School0.9 mi · 445
- Fair Lawn High School1.0 mi · 1,687
- Lyncrest Elementary School1.2 mi · 185
- John A. Forrest Elementary School1.3 mi · 258
Frequently asked questions
About Henry B. Milnes Elementary SchoolHow large is Henry B. Milnes Elementary School?
Henry B. Milnes Elementary School enrolls approximately 392 students in grades KG-04.
What grades does Henry B. Milnes Elementary School serve?
Henry B. Milnes Elementary School serves grades KG-04.
How many students per teacher at Henry B. Milnes Elementary School?
Approximately 12.2:1 students per teacher at Henry B. Milnes Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Henry B. Milnes Elementary School?
Student demographics at Henry B. Milnes Elementary School are roughly 57% White, 16% Hispanic, 2% Black, 21% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Henry B. Milnes Elementary School?
Henry B. Milnes Elementary School is overseen by Fair Lawn Public School District in Bergen County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.