Linden Avenue School

Linden Avenue School is a small elementary school with its address in GLEN RIDGE, New Jersey. The student body numbers 153 students, from pre-K through 2. Average enrollment for elementary schools in New Jersey is about 405, so this school runs 62% smaller than that.

Linden Avenue School is one school in a 5-school district, Glen Ridge Public School District, which enrolls 1,746 students.

White students are the majority at Linden Avenue School, with 67% of enrollment. After that, the student body is 13% multiracial, 10% Hispanic, 6% Black, and 5% Asian. Among all residents of Essex County, the White share is about 30%. Pick two students at random and there is a 52% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.

Federal data list 12.5 full-time-equivalent teachers at Linden Avenue School in 2024-25, for a ratio of 12.2:1. That is higher than the 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey.

County data help place the school in context: in Essex County, the median household income is $80,789, roughly 39% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Essex County is home to 249 public schools and about 145,473 public school students.

The closest public school to Linden Avenue School is Glen Ridge High School, about 0.5 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles.

NCES describes the area around Linden Avenue School as Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

Enrollment has fallen by 13 students since 2020-21, to 153. By 2024-25, the school had 12.2 students per teacher, compared with 10.4 in 2020-21.

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