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What's the biggest difference between Memorial Senior High School and what you expected?
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Enrollment
823
High
DISTRICT 519 · STATE 929
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ELMWOOD PARK SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340466000368
Memorial Senior High School
375 RIVER DR, ELMWOOD PARK, NJ 07407 · (201) 796-8700 · Bergen County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL823 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 40% of New Jersey public high schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-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 high schools
Student : Teacher
16.9:1
49 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 12.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
50%
411 students
DISTRICT 54% · STATE 41%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 199 | 24% |
| Grade 10 | 179 | 22% |
| Grade 11 | 215 | 26% |
| Grade 12 | 230 | 28% |
Student demographics
68%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · 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
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Elmwood Park School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
51.1%
NJ avg 53.1% . -1.3pp since 2023
Math
16.3%
NJ avg 41.6% . -2.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 16 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 51.1% | 16.3% |
| 2023-24 | 52.4% | 18.6% |
% 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
30.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
38.8%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 30% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 39% 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 Senior High School
Memorial Senior High School's state test result (30.2% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memorial Senior High School this school | 823 | 49.9% | 30.2% |
| Hoboken High School HOBOKEN | 652 | 52.1% | 45.1% |
| Middlesex High School MIDDLESEX | 597 | 45.7% | 31.8% |
| Henry P. Becton Regional High School EAST RUTHERFORD | 853 | 40.6% | 38.5% |
| Weehawken High School WEEHAWKEN | 604 | 52.8% | 30.6% |
| Collingswood High School COLLINGSWOOD | 761 | 46.6% | 37.3% |
Matched among New Jersey high 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 Senior High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Bergen County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 30.2% | #253 of 397 | #44 of 48 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 16.3% | #279 of 400 ▼ 4 | #46 of 48 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 51.1% | #200 of 395 ▲ 44 | #41 of 48 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 823 | #219 of 442 | #25 of 51 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.9:1 | #373 of 388 | #48 of 49 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.6% | #61 of 389 | #6 of 49 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 49.9% | #144 of 405 | #9 of 49 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +12.0% | #73 of 173 | #8 of 16 |
Ranked against other public high 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
823
+81 (+11%) vs 2020
+3% since 1990-91, when it was 798
Student : Teacher
16.9:1
was 14.3:1
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 | 823 | 48.6 | 16.9:1 | 50% (411) |
| 2023-24 | 820 | 49.6 | 16.6:1 | 38% (315) |
| 2022-23 | 806 | 54.1 | 14.9:1 | 32% (258) |
| 2020-21 | 742 | 52 | 14.3:1 | 42% (311) |
| 2017-18 | 735 | 48.9 | 15.1:1 | 49% (363) |
| 2015-16 | 689 | 49 | 14.1:1 | 46% (314) |
| 2010-11 | 744 | 40 | 18.6:1 | 29% (214) |
| 2000-01 | 677 | 41 | 16.5:1 | 9% (63) |
| 1990-91 | 798 | 62 | 12.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Memorial Senior High School.
Since 2017-18: students up 12% (735 to 823); teachers down 1% (48.9 to 48.6).
About Memorial Senior High School
Memorial Senior High School is a medium-sized high school based in ELMWOOD PARK, New Jersey. It enrolled 823 students in grades 9 through 12 for the 2024-25 school year.
Elmwood Park School District is responsible for 5 schools, Memorial Senior High School included, with 2,597 students in all.
No single group makes up more than half of enrollment at Memorial Senior High School. The largest is Hispanic students, at 44%. The remaining shares are 32% White, 13% Black, and 9% Asian. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Bergen County's population at about 23%. Memorial Senior High School's diversity index is 68%, against a US figure of 70%.
A ratio of 16.9:1 comes from the school's 48.6 full-time-equivalent teachers. The school has more students per teacher than the 12.7:1 average for high schools in New Jersey. The lunch program counts 50% of students at Memorial Senior High School as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. It compares with 28% for public schools in Bergen County.
allk12 grades Memorial Senior High School a C+. The grade compares the school only with New Jersey public high schools, because each state gives its own test.
Memorial Senior High School's average proficiency rate on state tests of 30.2% is 8.6 points below the 38.8% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
Bergen County census figures show that the median household income is $124,884, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 53% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 5%. Bergen County is home to 291 public schools and about 133,883 public school students.
The school nearest to Memorial Senior High School is Memorial Middle School, at a distance of less than a tenth of a mile. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Of the 7 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Memorial Senior High School is 3rd on average proficiency.
The NCES locale for Memorial Senior High School is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal data show an 11% enrollment increase, from 742 in 2020-21 to 823 in 2024-25. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio rose from 14.3:1 to 16.9:1.
Community posts for Memorial Senior High School can cover enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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 Elmwood Park School District
- Memorial Middle SchoolMiddle · 569 students
- Gilbert Avenue SchoolElementary · 456 students
- Sixteenth Avenue SchoolElementary · 410 students
- Gantner Avenue SchoolElementary · 339 students
Other schools in ELMWOOD PARK
- Memorial Middle SchoolMiddle · 569 students
- Gilbert Avenue SchoolElementary · 456 students
- Sixteenth Avenue SchoolElementary · 410 students
- Gantner Avenue SchoolElementary · 339 students
Nearby schools
- Memorial Middle School0.0 mi · 569
- Gilbert Avenue School0.3 mi · 456
- School 200.6 mi · 343
- Paterson STEAM High School0.7 mi · 379
- Students Transitioning and Achieving Real Success0.7 mi · 112
- Sixteenth Avenue School0.8 mi · 410
Frequently asked questions
About Memorial Senior High SchoolHow many students attend Memorial Senior High School?
Memorial Senior High School enrolls approximately 823 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does Memorial Senior High School serve?
Memorial Senior High School serves grades 09-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Memorial Senior High School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Memorial Senior High School is approximately 16.9:1 (49 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Memorial Senior High School?
Memorial Senior High School reports a student body of 32% White, 44% Hispanic, 13% Black, 9% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is Memorial Senior High School in?
Memorial Senior High School is part of Elmwood Park School District.
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