Prospect Park School No. 1

As a sizable primary school in PROSPECT PARK, New Jersey, Prospect Park School No. 1 teaches 620 students from grades pre-K through 6, overseen by Prospect Park Public School District. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 405 students each, so Prospect Park School No. 1 sits 53% above that benchmark.

Prospect Park Public School District comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 763 students; Prospect Park School No. 1 is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Prospect Park School No. 1 lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 74% of enrollment. The remainder is composed of 11% Black, 8% Asian, 6% White. The wider county runs roughly 44% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Prospect Park School No. 1 lists 74 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.4:1. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 30% of students at Prospect Park School No. 1 qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Passaic County runs at roughly 61%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, Prospect Park School No. 1 sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 49.6%; actual is 10.3%, a gap of -39.3 points.

Around the school, Passaic County reports that median household earnings sit near $87,522, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Passaic County's 155 public schools (combined enrollment of about 83,237 students), Prospect Park School No. 1 is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Prospect Park Middle School, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Prospect Park School No. 1. On composite proficiency, Prospect Park School No. 1 comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 26.8%.

Prospect Park School No. 1 operates from an outer-ring location.

Over the past 7-year window. Prospect Park School No. 1's enrollment has edged down 34% since 2018, when it stood at 942 (now 620). Asian enrollment moved from 3% to 8% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 8.4:1 today.

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