Lewis F. Cole Middle School

Set in FORT LEE, New Jersey, Lewis F. Cole Middle School is a roomy middle-grades school, operated by Fort Lee School District. It serves 1,227 students across grades 5 through 8. That puts it 112% bigger than the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 578 students.

Across the 6 schools in Fort Lee School District (4,006 students total), Lewis F. Cole Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Lewis F. Cole Middle School records that 46% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest consists of 25% White, 20% Hispanic, 4% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Bergen County as a whole is about 17% Asian, so the school skews meaningfully more Asian than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school employs 97 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.9:1, putting Lewis F. Cole Middle School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 25% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Lewis F. Cole Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.4%, the actual is 63.6%, a residual of +11.2 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Bergen County indicate the typical household earns roughly $124,884 per year, about 53% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 Lewis F. Cole Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: School No. 1, around 0.4 miles off. 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), Lewis F. Cole Middle School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 59.6%.

Lewis F. Cole Middle School operates from a bedroom-community location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lewis F. Cole Middle School has expanded 101%, going from 609 students in 2018 to 1,227 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 32% to 25% over that span.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Lewis F. Cole Middle School community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.