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Enrollment
532
Elementary
DISTRICT 488 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MONTVALE BOARD OF EDUCATION SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341062000618
Memorial Elementary School
53 Grand Avenue West, Montvale, NJ 07645 · (201) 391-2900 · Bergen County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL532 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 92% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New Jersey public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
10.4:1
51 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.6:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
7%
38 students
DISTRICT 8% · STATE 41%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 26 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 81 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 116 | 22% |
| Grade 2 | 110 | 21% |
| Grade 3 | 102 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 97 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (81) is 16% smaller than its 4th grade class (97).
Student demographics
61%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 61% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Memorial Elementary School→Fieldstone Middle School
Based on grade levels within Montvale Board of Education School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
73.3%
NJ avg 53.1% . +4.8pp since 2023
Math
81.5%
NJ avg 41.6% . +5.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 73 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 82 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 73.3% | 81.5% |
| 2023-24 | 68.5% | 75.9% |
% Meeting or Exceeding Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: NJSLA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
74.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
62.3%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+12.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 75% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 62% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New Jersey's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Memorial Elementary School
Memorial Elementary School's state test result (74.7% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memorial Elementary School this school | 532 | 7.1% | 74.7% |
| Marlboro Elementary School MARLBORO | 551 | 8.7% | 68.0% |
| Radburn Elementary School FAIR LAWN | 445 | 11.5% | 86.5% |
| Yantacaw School NUTLEY | 512 | 7.2% | 65.8% |
| Lafayette Avenue School CHATHAM | 554 | 2.7% | 75.0% |
| Jefferson Elementary School Westfield | 467 | 0.6% | 74.7% |
Matched among New Jersey elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Memorial Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Bergen County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 74.7% | #91 of 1,290 | #28 of 137 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 81.5% | #71 of 1,319 ▲ 43 | #21 of 149 ▲ 13 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 73.3% | #200 of 1,319 ▲ 79 | #63 of 149 ▲ 16 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 532 | #332 of 1,562 | #16 of 173 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.4:1 | #467 of 1,390 | #53 of 151 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 60.6% | #473 of 1,392 | #60 of 151 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 7.1% | #1,312 of 1,481 | #112 of 154 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +0.2% | #543 of 545 | #64 of 64 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
532
+49 (+10%) vs 2020
+46% since 1990-91, when it was 364
Student : Teacher
10.4:1
was 10.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 532 | 51 | 10.4:1 | 7% (38) |
| 2023-24 | 525 | 50.7 | 10.4:1 | 4% (21) |
| 2022-23 | 517 | 52.2 | 9.9:1 | 3% (13) |
| 2020-21 | 483 | 46 | 10.5:1 | 2% (11) |
| 2017-18 | 531 | 41 | 12.9:1 | 2% (10) |
| 2015-16 | 523 | 43 | 12.2:1 | 1% (3) |
| 2010-11 | 721 | 38 | 19.0:1 | 2% (14) |
| 2000-01 | 524 | 32 | 16.4:1 | 0% (0) |
| 1990-91 | 364 | 24 | 15.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Memorial Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students unchanged (531 to 532); teachers up 24% (41 to 51).
About Memorial Elementary School
The public elementary school Memorial Elementary School is located in Montvale, New Jersey. The school enrolls 532 students in pre-K through 4. Elementary schools in New Jersey average about 405 students, which makes this school 31% above average.
Montvale Board of Education School District counts 2 schools and 975 students, including Memorial Elementary School.
More than half of the students at Memorial Elementary School are White (57%). The next largest groups are 22% Asian, 14% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, and 3% Black. That is in line with Bergen County, where about 55% of residents are White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Memorial Elementary School scores 61%.
Its staff includes 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 10.4 students per teacher. The gap from the 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey is 1.0 students per teacher. Roughly 7% of students at Memorial Elementary School can receive free or reduced-price lunch. That is 21 points below the 28% average for public schools in Bergen County.
Memorial Elementary School earns an A on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 92% of New Jersey public elementary schools.
Memorial Elementary School is 12.5 points above its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (74.7% versus 62.3%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in New Jersey.
In the surrounding county, Bergen County, median household income comes to about $124,884, about 53% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 5%. The county's public schools total 291, with about 133,883 students.
Memorial Elementary School is about 0.7 miles from Park Ridge High School, its nearest public school. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Local comparison: Memorial Elementary School ranks 2nd of 8 nearby schools, at 74.7% versus a 67.2% average.
Locale data from NCES put Memorial Elementary School in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more (Suburb: Large).
Federal enrollment counts rose from 483 (2020-21) to 532 (2024-25).
This page is set up for the Memorial Elementary School community to discuss homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Bergen County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
962,316
Census ACS
Median income
$124,884
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
53%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
291
133,883 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Montvale Board of Education School District
- Fieldstone Middle SchoolMiddle · 443 students
Other schools in Montvale
- Pascack Hills High SchoolHigh · 768 students
- Fieldstone Middle SchoolMiddle · 443 students
Other Memorial Elementary schools
21 other US public schools in 10 states are named Memorial Elementary. Memorial Elementary School is the 4th largest of the 22.
- Memorial Elementary SchoolFREEHOLD, NJ · 414 students
- Memorial Elementary SchoolEAST BRUNSWICK, NJ · 408 students
- Memorial Elementary SchoolLAURENCE HARBOR, NJ · 388 students
- Memorial Elementary SchoolNORTH HALEDON, NJ · 349 students
- Memorial Elementary SchoolPARAMUS, NJ · 289 students
Nearby schools
- Park Ridge High School0.7 mi · 491
- Pascack Hills High School0.9 mi · 768
- West Ridge Elementary School1.0 mi · 343
- East Brook Elementary School1.1 mi · 314
- Fieldstone Middle School1.1 mi · 443
- FRANKLIN AVENUE SCHOOL1.4 mi · 262
Frequently asked questions
About Memorial Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Memorial Elementary School?
Memorial Elementary School enrolls approximately 532 students in grades PK-04.
Is Memorial Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Memorial Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-04.
How many teachers does Memorial Elementary School have?
Memorial Elementary School employs 51 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.4:1.
What is the student diversity at Memorial Elementary School?
Student demographics at Memorial Elementary School are roughly 57% White, 14% Hispanic, 3% Black, 22% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Memorial Elementary School?
Memorial Elementary School is overseen by Montvale Board of Education School District in Bergen County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.