Maywood Avenue School

Maywood Avenue School is a junior high of reasonably sized scale in MAYWOOD, New Jersey, one of the schools within Maywood School District, serveing 561 students in grades 4 through 8.

Maywood School District comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 976 students; Maywood Avenue School is among them.

On demographics, Maywood Avenue School lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 31% White, 16% Asian, 7% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Bergen County as a whole is about 23% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.3:1. The state averages around 10.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 25% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Maywood Avenue School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 52.3%; this one delivers 61.9%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Bergen County) logs that median household earnings sit near $124,884, 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 Maywood Avenue School is one.

The closest other public school is Maywood Campus, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Maywood Avenue School at 1st of 7; the average score across the group is 39.1%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Five-year trend. Maywood Avenue School's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 561 (now 561). White enrollment moved from 45% to 31% across the same window.

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