Highland Elementary School

Highland Elementary School is one of the low-enrollment elementary campuss in MIDLAND PARK, New Jersey, one of the schools within Midland Park School District, with 306 students on its rolls from grades 3 through 6. That puts it 24% below the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 405 students.

Midland Park School District runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 906 students. Highland Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Highland Elementary School lists that 70% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 19% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, Bergen County as a whole is about 55% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. Around 8% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Bergen County runs at roughly 28%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Highland Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.9%, the actual is 65.7%, a residual of +3.9 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Bergen County put the typical household earns roughly $124,884 per year, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Highland Elementary School is one of 291 public schools in Bergen County (combined enrollment of about 133,883 students).

Godwin Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Highland Elementary School at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 70.9%.

Highland Elementary School operates from a bedroom-community location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Highland Elementary School has increased 22%, going from 251 students in 2018 to 306 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 81% to 70% across the same window. Class-load math has rose: from 7.7:1 in 2018 to 9.6:1 in 2025.

On allk12, the feed for Highland Elementary School typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.