Memorial Elementary School

Memorial Elementary School operates as a medium-sized K-5 school in NORTH HALEDON, New Jersey, run under North Haledon School District. Current enrollment sits at 349 students spanning grades pre-K through 4.

Memorial Elementary School is one of 2 schools operated by North Haledon School District, a district that teaches 608 students overall.

Demographically, Memorial Elementary School logs that the largest single group is White, at 55% of enrollment; the rest looks like 32% Hispanic, 4% Black, 4% Asian, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Passaic County as a whole is about 41% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 26% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Passaic County's rate of about 61%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Memorial Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 52.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 44.5%.

In the area at large, Passaic County reports that the typical household earns roughly $87,522 per year, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Passaic County runs 155 public schools (combined enrollment of about 83,237 students), of which Memorial Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: High Mountain School, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Memorial Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 36.8%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 4%: 363 students in 2018 compared to 349 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 84% to 55% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 12.5:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 in 2025.

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