High Mountain Road School

High Mountain Road School is a primary school of tight-knit scale in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, operated by Franklin Lakes School District, enrolling 301 students in grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 405 students per school, that is 26% smaller than typical.

Franklin Lakes School District comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,165 students; High Mountain Road School is among them.

In terms of who attends, High Mountain Road School records that nearly all students (81%) are White. Beyond that, the school lists 9% Hispanic, 7% Asian, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 55% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting High Mountain Road School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 3% of students at High Mountain Road School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Bergen County's rate of about 28%.

With demographic context factored in, High Mountain Road School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.7%, the actual is 71.3%, a residual of +6.6 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Bergen County) logs that median household income runs about $124,884, roughly 53% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Bergen County runs 291 public schools (combined enrollment of about 133,883 students), of which High Mountain Road School is one.

Ramapo High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), High Mountain Road School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 58.8%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 53%: 197 students in 2018 compared to 301 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 85% to 81% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 7.4:1 in 2018 to 9.3:1 today.

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