Pines Lake Elementary School

As a mid-tier K-5 school in WAYNE, New Jersey, Pines Lake Elementary School educates 356 students from grades K through 5, overseen by Wayne Township Public School District.

Pines Lake Elementary School is one of 15 schools operated by Wayne Township Public School District, a district that caters to 7,549 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Pines Lake Elementary School logs that the largest single group is White, at 75% of enrollment. Other groups include 12% Hispanic, 8% Asian, 4% multiracial. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 11.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 10% of students at Pines Lake Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Passaic County (around 61%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Pines Lake Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 60.9%; this one delivers 61.1%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Passaic County put median household income runs about $87,522, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Passaic County runs 155 public schools (combined enrollment of about 83,237 students), of which Pines Lake Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Albert Payson Terhune Elementary, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Pines Lake Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Pines Lake Elementary School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 57.4%.

Pines Lake Elementary School operates from a commuter-belt location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 3%: 367 students in 2018 compared to 356 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged up from 69% to 75%.

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