Randall Carter Elementary School

Randall Carter Elementary School operates as a medium-sized primary school in WAYNE, New Jersey, operated by Wayne Township Public School District. Current enrollment sits at 351 students spanning grades K through 5.

Wayne Township Public School District comprises 15 schools with combined enrollment of 7,549 students; Randall Carter Elementary School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Randall Carter Elementary School shows that the largest single group is White, at 69% of enrollment; the rest looks like 21% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 4% multiracial. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting Randall Carter Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 15% of students at Randall Carter Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Passaic County (around 61%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Randall Carter Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 57.9%; this one delivers 60.8%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Passaic County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $87,522 per year, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Passaic County runs 155 public schools (combined enrollment of about 83,237 students), of which Randall Carter Elementary School is one.

James Fallon Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Randall Carter Elementary School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Randall Carter Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 56.9%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Five-year trend. Randall Carter Elementary School's enrollment has ticked up 17% since 2018, when it stood at 300 (now 351). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 today.

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