Memorial Senior High School

Set in ELMWOOD PARK, New Jersey, Memorial Senior High School is an average-sized senior high, operated by Elmwood Park School District. It instructs 823 students across grades 9 through 12.

Elmwood Park School District runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 2,597 students. Memorial Senior High School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Memorial Senior High School logs that 44% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder looks like 32% White, 13% Black, 9% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.7:1, putting Memorial Senior High School higher than the state norm the norm. About 50% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Memorial Senior High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 38.8%; this one delivers 30.2%.

In the area at large, census data for Bergen County shows the typical household earns roughly $124,884 per year, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Memorial Senior High School is one of 291 public schools in Bergen County (combined enrollment of about 133,883 students).

Memorial Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Memorial Senior High School at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 22.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Memorial Senior High School has climbed 12%, going from 735 students in 2018 to 823 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 38% to 32% across the same window. Class-load math has rose: from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 16.9:1 in 2025.

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