Enrollment
348
Elementary
DISTRICT 344 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·RIDGEWOOD PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341383000780
Orchard Elementary School
230 DEMAREST ST, RIDGEWOOD, NJ 07451 · (201) 670-2730 · Bergen County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL348 STUDENTS
A+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 97% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.2:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.0:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
5%
18 students
DISTRICT 3% · STATE 41%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 46 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 56 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 55 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 64 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 63 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 64 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (46) is 28% smaller than its 5th grade class (64).
Student demographics
60%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 59% · 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
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
85.3%
NJ avg 53.1% . -1.5pp since 2023
Math
85.7%
NJ avg 41.6% . -2.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 85 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 86 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 85.3% | 85.7% |
| 2023-24 | 86.8% | 87.8% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NJ schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
82.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
63.3%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+19.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 82% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 63% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 19 points, placing it in New Jersey's top 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 Orchard Elementary School
Orchard Elementary School's state test result (82.4% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orchard Elementary School this school | 348 | 5.2% | 82.4% |
| Mt. Horeb School Warren | 331 | 4.5% | 66.3% |
| Cedar Hill School TOWACO | 329 | 1.5% | 76.4% |
| Bee Meadow School Whippany | 294 | 6.1% | 52.3% |
| Somerville Elementary School RIDGEWOOD | 394 | 3.8% | 80.8% |
| Albert Payson Terhune Elementary WAYNE | 347 | 10.4% | 67.8% |
Matched among New Jersey elementary 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 Orchard Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Bergen County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 82.4% | #23 of 1,290 | #5 of 137 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 85.7% | #29 of 1,319 ▼ 13 | #7 of 149 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 85.3% | #39 of 1,319 ▼ 14 | #8 of 149 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 348 | #908 of 1,562 | #79 of 173 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.2:1 | #926 of 1,390 | #97 of 151 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 60.4% | #481 of 1,392 | #63 of 151 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 5.2% | #1,339 of 1,481 | #115 of 154 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +13.0% | #186 of 545 | #13 of 64 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
348
+49 (+16%) vs 2020
+57% since 1990-91, when it was 221
Student : Teacher
12.2:1
was 13.6:1
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 | 348 | 28.5 | 12.2:1 | 5% (18) |
| 2023-24 | 352 | 29.3 | 12.0:1 | 6% (22) |
| 2022-23 | 346 | 26.2 | 13.2:1 | 8% (27) |
| 2020-21 | 299 | 22 | 13.6:1 | 6% (18) |
| 2017-18 | 308 | 22.3 | 13.8:1 | 5% (15) |
| 2015-16 | 301 | 22 | 13.7:1 | 6% (19) |
| 2010-11 | 339 | 20 | 16.9:1 | 6% (21) |
| 2000-01 | 318 | 21 | 15.1:1 | 3% (11) |
| 1990-91 | 221 | 12 | 18.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Orchard Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 13% (308 to 348); teachers up 28% (22.3 to 28.5).
About Orchard Elementary School
Orchard Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school. Its address is in RIDGEWOOD, New Jersey. Enrollment is 348 students in 2024-25, and the school serves kindergarten through 5.
In Ridgewood Public School District, 10 schools enroll a combined 5,419 students.
Orchard Elementary School is 58% White by enrollment. Other students are 17% Asian, 15% Hispanic, and 8% multiracial. The county population is about 55% White, within a few points of the school. Pick two students at random and there is a 60% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Teachers at Orchard Elementary School total 28.5 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 12.2:1. That is 0.8 students per teacher above the 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 5%. That is 23 points below the 28% average for public schools in Bergen County.
allk12 grades Orchard Elementary School an A+. The grade compares the school only with New Jersey public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Orchard Elementary School is in the top 10% of New Jersey schools on the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure. Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the model predicts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 63.3%. The school's actual rate is 82.4%, 19.1 points higher.
According to the American Community Survey, in Bergen County, the median household income is $124,884, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of people live in poverty. Orchard Elementary School is one of 291 public schools in the county.
George Washington Middle School is the public school closest to Orchard Elementary School, about 0.5 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 70.6%; Orchard Elementary School's is 82.4%, ranking 1st of 8.
The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Large).
Enrollment is up 16% from 2020-21, when Orchard Elementary School had 299 students, to 2024-25, when it had 348. Its ratio of students to teachers was 13.6:1 in 2020-21, and 12.2:1 in 2024-25.
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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 Ridgewood Public School District
- Ridgewood High SchoolHigh · 1,740 students
- George Washington Middle SchoolMiddle · 644 students
- Benjamin Franklin Middle SchoolMiddle · 627 students
- Ridge Elementary SchoolElementary · 448 students
- Willard Elementary SchoolElementary · 440 students
- Somerville Elementary SchoolElementary · 394 students
Other schools in RIDGEWOOD
- Ridgewood High SchoolHigh · 1,740 students
- George Washington Middle SchoolMiddle · 644 students
- Benjamin Franklin Middle SchoolMiddle · 627 students
- Ridge Elementary SchoolElementary · 448 students
- Willard Elementary SchoolElementary · 440 students
- Somerville Elementary SchoolElementary · 394 students
Other Orchard Elementary schools
6 other US public schools in 4 states are named Orchard Elementary. Orchard Elementary School is the 7th largest of the 7.
- Orchard ElementarySan Jose, CA · 740 students
- Orchard Elementary SchoolMobile, AL · 622 students
- Orchard ElementaryRichland, WA · 594 students
- Orchard ElementaryModesto, CA · 579 students
- Orchard ElementaryVacaville, CA · 437 students
Nearby schools
- George Washington Middle School0.5 mi · 644
- Central School0.7 mi · 299
- Ridge Elementary School0.9 mi · 448
- Richard E Byrd School0.9 mi · 246
- Ridgewood High School1.2 mi · 1,740
- Glen Rock High School1.3 mi · 722
Frequently asked questions
About Orchard Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Orchard Elementary School?
Orchard Elementary School enrolls approximately 348 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Orchard Elementary School serve?
Orchard Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Orchard Elementary School?
Approximately 12.2:1 students per teacher at Orchard Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Orchard Elementary School?
Student demographics at Orchard Elementary School are roughly 58% White, 15% Hispanic, 2% Black, 17% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Is Orchard Elementary School public or private?
Orchard Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Ridgewood Public School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.