Enrollment
297
Elementary
DISTRICT 269 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PARAMUS PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341242000700
Parkway Elementary School
145 E. RIDGEWOOD AVENUE, PARAMUS, NJ 07652 · (201) 261-7800 · Bergen County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL297 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
11.1:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.6:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
16%
47 students
DISTRICT 17% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 65 | 22% |
| Kindergarten | 51 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 46 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 44 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 59 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 32 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (51) is 59% larger than its 4th grade class (32).
Student demographics
68%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 68% · 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
77.7%
NJ avg 53.1% . +5.1pp since 2023
Math
79.3%
NJ avg 41.6% . +13.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 78 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 79 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 14 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 77.7% | 79.3% |
| 2023-24 | 72.6% | 65.5% |
% 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
73.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.5%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+16.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 73% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 58% 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 16 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 Parkway Elementary School
Parkway Elementary School's state test result (73.5% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parkway Elementary School this school | 297 | 15.8% | 73.5% |
| Bradley Gardens Primary School Bridgewater | 279 | 13.6% | 75.0% |
| Central School Warren | 312 | 12.2% | 71.3% |
| Memorial Elementary School PARAMUS | 289 | 13.5% | 72.3% |
| Oak Ridge Heights Elementary School COLONIA | 292 | 20.9% | 55.6% |
| Riverside School PRINCETON | 306 | 12.1% | 80.8% |
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 Parkway Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Bergen County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 73.5% | #109 of 1,290 | #32 of 137 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 79.3% | #95 of 1,319 ▲ 185 | #29 of 149 ▲ 43 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 77.7% | #127 of 1,319 ▲ 74 | #44 of 149 ▲ 15 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 297 | #1,118 of 1,562 | #118 of 173 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.1:1 | #632 of 1,390 | #65 of 151 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.9% | #221 of 1,392 | #16 of 151 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 15.8% | #1,116 of 1,481 | #92 of 154 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +5.3% | #371 of 545 | #41 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
297
+40 (+16%) vs 2020
-8% since 1990-91, when it was 322
Student : Teacher
11.1:1
was 9.9:1
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 | 297 | 26.8 | 11.1:1 | 16% (47) |
| 2023-24 | 294 | 27.1 | 10.9:1 | 9% (26) |
| 2022-23 | 300 | 26.8 | 11.2:1 | 9% (28) |
| 2020-21 | 257 | 26 | 9.9:1 | 5% (13) |
| 2017-18 | 282 | 27.2 | 10.4:1 | 3% (8) |
| 2015-16 | 279 | 23 | 12.1:1 | 7% (19) |
| 2010-11 | 242 | 17 | 14.2:1 | 1% (3) |
| 2000-01 | 361 | 27 | 13.4:1 | 0% (0) |
| 1990-91 | 322 | 18 | 17.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Parkway Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 5% (282 to 297); teachers down 1% (27.2 to 26.8).
About Parkway Elementary School
A small elementary school in PARAMUS, New Jersey, Parkway Elementary School is part of Paramus Public School District. The school had 297 students in pre-K through 4 in 2024-25. An average school in this group (elementary schools in New Jersey) has about 405 students.
The Paramus Public School District system has 8 schools and 3,555 students.
Parkway Elementary School's enrollment has no majority group, and White students are the largest at 45%. The remaining students are 26% Asian, 22% Hispanic, 4% Black, and 2% multiracial. Among people living in Bergen County, the White share is about 55%. By the diversity index, Parkway Elementary School comes in at 68%.
The count of teachers at Parkway Elementary School is 26.8 full-time equivalents, for a ratio of 11.1:1. Elementary schools in New Jersey have a similar average ratio of 11.4:1. The school counts 47 students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, or 16%. That is lower than the 28% average for public schools in Bergen County.
Parkway Elementary School scores 16.0 points above its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests: 73.5% actual versus 57.5% predicted. That puts it in the top 10% of New Jersey schools on BeatsExpectations.
Among Bergen County residents, median household income is about $124,884, about 53% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. Parkway Elementary School is one of 291 public schools in Bergen County, which together enroll about 133,883 students.
The nearest public school is East Brook Middle School, at less than a tenth of a mile. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. By average proficiency, Parkway Elementary School is 3rd among 9 schools close by.
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).
The student count in 2024-25 was 297, 16% above the 257 of 2020-21. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio rose from 9.9:1 to 11.1:1.
Conversations here can range across science fairs, picture day, and bus routes. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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 Paramus Public School District
- Paramus High SchoolHigh · 1,153 students
- East Brook Middle SchoolMiddle · 555 students
- West Brook Middle SchoolMiddle · 500 students
- Ridge Ranch Elementary SchoolElementary · 338 students
- Memorial Elementary SchoolElementary · 289 students
- Stony Lane Elementary SchoolElementary · 223 students
Other schools in PARAMUS
- Paramus High SchoolHigh · 1,153 students
- East Brook Middle SchoolMiddle · 555 students
- West Brook Middle SchoolMiddle · 500 students
- Applied Technology High SchoolHigh · 348 students
- Ridge Ranch Elementary SchoolElementary · 338 students
- Memorial Elementary SchoolElementary · 289 students
Other Parkway Elementary schools
20 other US public schools in 15 states are named Parkway Elementary. Parkway Elementary School is the 19th largest of the 21.
- Parkway Elementary SchoolEWING, NJ · 418 students
- Parkway Elementary SchoolMOUNT LAUREL, NJ · 366 students
- Parkway Elementary SchoolEvans, GA · 795 students
- Parkway Elementary SchoolLeesville, LA · 675 students
- Parkway Elementary SchoolLONGVIEW, TX · 674 students
Nearby schools
- East Brook Middle School0.0 mi · 555
- Paramus High School0.3 mi · 1,153
- Ridge Ranch Elementary School1.1 mi · 338
- Roosevelt School1.1 mi · 474
- Memorial Elementary School1.2 mi · 289
- River Dell Middle School1.2 mi · 573
Frequently asked questions
About Parkway Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Parkway Elementary School?
Parkway Elementary School enrolls approximately 297 students in grades PK-04.
What age range does Parkway Elementary School serve?
Parkway Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 04.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Parkway Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Parkway Elementary School is approximately 11.1:1 (27 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Parkway Elementary School?
Parkway Elementary School reports a student body of 45% White, 22% Hispanic, 4% Black, 26% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees Parkway Elementary School?
Parkway Elementary School is overseen by Paramus Public School District in Bergen County.
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