Nellie K. Parker

Nellie K. Parker is an elementary-level community of moderately sized scale in HACKENSACK, New Jersey, overseen by Hackensack School District, educateing 589 students in grades pre-K through 4. Compared to the state average of about 405 students per school, that is 45% above typical.

Within Hackensack School District, which oversees 6 schools and 5,376 students, Nellie K. Parker is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Nellie K. Parker records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 63% of enrollment. Other groups include 18% Black, 10% White, 6% Asian, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Bergen County as a whole is about 23% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting Nellie K. Parker higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 63% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Bergen County's rate of about 28%.

With demographic context factored in, Nellie K. Parker performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.7%, the actual is 41.2%, a residual of +9.5 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Bergen County shows the typical household earns roughly $124,884 per year, about 53% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Bergen County's 291 public schools (combined enrollment of about 133,883 students), Nellie K. Parker is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Maywood Campus, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Nellie K. Parker. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Nellie K. Parker ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 42.6%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Nellie K. Parker's enrollment has ticked down 4% since 2018, when it stood at 613 (now 589). Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 56% to 63%.

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