Memorial Middle School

Set in ELMWOOD PARK, New Jersey, Memorial Middle School is a moderately sized junior high, overseen by Elmwood Park School District. It teaches 569 students across grades 6 through 8.

Elmwood Park School District comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 2,597 students; Memorial Middle School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Memorial Middle School logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 30% White, 13% Black, 7% Asian. By comparison, Bergen County as a whole is about 23% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Memorial Middle School has 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 10.9:1 average. An estimated 53% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Bergen County runs at roughly 28%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Memorial Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 37.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 29.7%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Bergen County) records that median household earnings sit near $124,884, about 53% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Bergen County's 291 public schools (combined enrollment of about 133,883 students), Memorial Middle School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Memorial Senior High School, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Memorial Middle School comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 22.3%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Memorial Middle School's enrollment has contracted 3% since 2018, when it stood at 588 (now 569). White enrollment moved from 43% to 30% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 in 2025.

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