J Spencer Smith School

J Spencer Smith School operates as a tight-knit primary school in TENAFLY, New Jersey, part of Tenafly Public School District. Current enrollment sits at 326 students spanning grades K through 5.

Tenafly Public School District comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 3,404 students; J Spencer Smith School is among them.

Looking at the student body, J Spencer Smith School logs that the largest single group is White, at 56% of enrollment. Other groups include 35% Asian, 6% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 11.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 2% of students at J Spencer Smith School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Bergen County (around 28%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

With demographic context factored in, J Spencer Smith School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 65.3%; this one delivers 76.1%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Bergen County indicate median household earnings sit near $124,884, about 53% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. J Spencer Smith School is one of 291 public schools in Bergen County (combined enrollment of about 133,883 students).

Donald A. Quarles Early Childhood Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), J Spencer Smith School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 46.0%.

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

Over the past 7-year window. J Spencer Smith School's enrollment has decreased 9% since 2018, when it stood at 360 (now 326). Over the same period, the Asian share expanded from 31% to 35%.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.