Manito Elementary School

Manito Elementary School is one of the close-knit elementary campuss in OAKLAND, New Jersey, one of the schools within Oakland Public School District, with 255 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 405 students each, so Manito Elementary School sits 37% below that benchmark.

Oakland Public School District runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 1,300 students. Manito Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Manito Elementary School reports that the largest single group is White, at 80% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 11% Hispanic, 7% Asian. By comparison, Bergen County as a whole is about 55% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.3:1. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 4% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Bergen County (around 28%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Manito Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.8%, the actual is 73.7%, a residual of +9.9 points.

In the broader community, Bergen County reports that 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%. Manito Elementary School is one of 291 public schools in Bergen County (combined enrollment of about 133,883 students).

Heights Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Manito Elementary School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Manito Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 65.0%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Manito Elementary School's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 251 (now 255). The White share of enrollment shrank from 88% to 80% over that span.

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