McKenzie School

McKenzie School is one of the middle-of-the-pack primary schools in EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey, one of the schools within East Rutherford School District, with 369 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 3.

East Rutherford School District runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 787 students. McKenzie School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, McKenzie School shows that 43% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest comes out to 36% White, 13% Asian, 4% Black, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 23% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. About 47% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Bergen County's rate of about 28%.

With demographic context factored in, McKenzie School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.4%, the actual is 47.8%, a residual of +7.5 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Bergen County) logs that median household earnings sit near $124,884, roughly 53% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Bergen County's 291 public schools (combined enrollment of about 133,883 students), McKenzie School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Jefferson (Annex) Elementary School, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around McKenzie School. On composite proficiency, McKenzie School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 38.2%.

McKenzie School operates from a commuter-belt location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 23%: 477 students in 2018 compared to 369 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share ticked down from 28% to 13%. Class-load math has fell: from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 9.9:1 in 2025.

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