Enrollment
291
Elementary
DISTRICT 320 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BERGENFIELD BOROUGH SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340150000274
Jefferson Elementary School
200 HICKORY AVENUE, BERGENFIELD, NJ 07621 · (201) 385-8804 · Bergen County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL291 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 64% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
16.5:1
18 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.9:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
36%
105 students
DISTRICT 42% · 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 | 38 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 50 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 42 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 50 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 50 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 61 | 21% |
This year's kindergarten class (38) is 38% smaller than its 5th grade class (61).
Student demographics
66%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 60% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within Bergenfield Borough School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
61.6%
NJ avg 53.1% . +9.7pp since 2023
Math
47.9%
NJ avg 41.6% . -0.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 48 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 10 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 61.6% | 47.9% |
| 2023-24 | 51.9% | 48.0% |
% 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
51.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
46.4%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 46% 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 Jefferson Elementary School
Jefferson Elementary School's state test result (51.3% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jefferson Elementary School this school | 291 | 36.1% | 51.3% |
| Washington Elementary School BERGENFIELD | 253 | 39.5% | 52.4% |
| Franklin Elementary School BERGENFIELD | 352 | 37.8% | 55.4% |
| Lincoln Elementary School BERGENFIELD | 443 | 37.9% | 66.7% |
| Pennsylvania Avenue Elementary School COLONIA | 282 | 33.7% | 46.4% |
| Kennedy Park Elementary School ISELIN | 256 | 44.5% | N/A |
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 Jefferson Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Bergen County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 51.3% | #491 of 1,290 | #98 of 137 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 47.9% | #627 of 1,319 ▼ 45 | #123 of 149 ▼ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 61.6% | #448 of 1,319 ▲ 169 | #106 of 149 ▲ 24 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 291 | #1,141 of 1,562 | #121 of 173 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.5:1 | #1,355 of 1,390 | #151 of 151 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.5% | #296 of 1,392 | #33 of 151 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 36.1% | #763 of 1,481 | #57 of 154 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +11.1% | #223 of 545 | #20 of 64 |
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
291
+13 (+5%) vs 2020
+19% since 1990-91, when it was 245
Student : Teacher
16.5:1
was 15.4:1
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 | 291 | 17.6 | 16.5:1 | 36% (105) |
| 2023-24 | 289 | 17.4 | 16.6:1 | 23% (66) |
| 2022-23 | 284 | 17.5 | 16.2:1 | 26% (73) |
| 2020-21 | 278 | 18 | 15.4:1 | 24% (66) |
| 2017-18 | 262 | 19.5 | 13.4:1 | 28% (73) |
| 2015-16 | 256 | 18 | 14.2:1 | 28% (72) |
| 2010-11 | 226 | 15 | 15.1:1 | 20% (46) |
| 2000-01 | 247 | 15 | 16.5:1 | 13% (31) |
| 1990-91 | 245 | 13 | 18.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Jefferson Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 11% (262 to 291); teachers down 10% (19.5 to 17.6).
About Jefferson Elementary School
Jefferson Elementary School is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as an elementary school in BERGENFIELD, New Jersey. It serves 291 students in kindergarten through 5. For comparison, elementary schools in New Jersey average about 405 students.
Enrollment across the 7 schools in Bergenfield Borough School District totals 3,600 students.
Roughly 51% of students at Jefferson Elementary School are Hispanic. Beyond that, enrollment is 24% Asian, 14% White, 8% Black, and 3% multiracial. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 23%. Pick two students at random and there is a 66% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
At Jefferson Elementary School, 17.6 full-time-equivalent teachers work with students, a ratio of about 16.5:1. On average, elementary schools in New Jersey have 11.4:1, compared with 16.5:1 here. Students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch make up 36% of enrollment. The 28% average for public schools in Bergen County is 8 points lower.
Measured against New Jersey public elementary schools, Jefferson Elementary School receives a B. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Jefferson Elementary School is +4.9 points: 51.3% actual, 46.4% predicted.
Among Bergen County residents, the median household income is $124,884, about 53% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 5%. Besides Jefferson Elementary School, Bergen County has 290 other public schools.
Nearest public school: Honiss Elementary\Middle School, about 0.4 miles away. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Jefferson Elementary School is 7th of 9 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
The school's locale code, Suburb: Large, means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Jefferson Elementary School's enrollment climbed from 278 in 2020-21 to 291 in 2024-25. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio rose from 15.4:1 to 16.5:1.
Parents and students can post about sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater at Jefferson Elementary School. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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 Bergenfield Borough School District
- Bergenfield High SchoolHigh · 1,239 students
- Roy W. Brown Middle SchoolMiddle · 761 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolElementary · 443 students
- Franklin Elementary SchoolElementary · 352 students
- Hoover Elementary SchoolElementary · 261 students
- Washington Elementary SchoolElementary · 253 students
Other schools in BERGENFIELD
- Bergenfield High SchoolHigh · 1,239 students
- Roy W. Brown Middle SchoolMiddle · 761 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolElementary · 443 students
- Franklin Elementary SchoolElementary · 352 students
- Hoover Elementary SchoolElementary · 261 students
- Washington Elementary SchoolElementary · 253 students
Other Jefferson Elementary schools
143 other US public schools in 31 states are named Jefferson Elementary. Jefferson Elementary School is the 107th largest of the 144.
- Jefferson ElementaryUNION, NJ · 564 students
- Jefferson Elementary SchoolWestfield, NJ · 467 students
- Jefferson Elementary SchoolPLAINFIELD, NJ · 383 students
- Jefferson Elementary SchoolSUCCASUNNA, NJ · 346 students
- Jefferson Elementary SchoolUNION CITY, NJ · 272 students
Nearby schools
- Honiss Elementary\Middle School0.4 mi · 624
- Malcolm S Mackay School0.5 mi · 349
- Washington Elementary School0.5 mi · 253
- Roy W. Brown Middle School0.8 mi · 761
- Franklin Elementary School0.9 mi · 352
- Tenafly Middle School1.0 mi · 916
Frequently asked questions
About Jefferson Elementary SchoolHow large is Jefferson Elementary School?
Jefferson Elementary School enrolls approximately 291 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Jefferson Elementary School serve?
Jefferson Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many teachers does Jefferson Elementary School have?
Jefferson Elementary School employs 18 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.5:1.
How diverse is Jefferson Elementary School?
Jefferson Elementary School reports a student body of 14% White, 51% Hispanic, 8% Black, 24% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is Jefferson Elementary School public or private?
Jefferson Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Bergenfield Borough School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.