Radcliffe School

Radcliffe School is one of the low-enrollment elementary schools in NUTLEY, New Jersey, one of the schools within Nutley Public School District, with 342 students on its rolls from grades K through 6.

Nutley Public School District comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 4,299 students; Radcliffe School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Radcliffe School reports that White students make up the majority at 60%; the rest breaks down as 25% Hispanic, 8% Asian, 4% Black, 4% multiracial. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.

On the resource side, On paper, Radcliffe School has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 13% of students at Radcliffe School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Essex County's rate of about 54%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Radcliffe School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.8%, the actual is 57.6%, a residual of -1.2 points.

In the broader community, census data for Essex County shows median household earnings sit near $80,789, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Essex County runs 249 public schools (combined enrollment of about 145,473 students), of which Radcliffe School is one.

John H. Walker Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Radcliffe School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 55.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Radcliffe School's enrollment has decreased 3% since 2018, when it stood at 354 (now 342). Class-load math has narrowed: from 12.2:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.