Ridgewood Avenue School

Ridgewood Avenue School is one of the average-sized elementary schools in GLEN RIDGE, New Jersey, operated by Glen Ridge Public School District, with 540 students on its rolls from grades 3 through 6. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 405 students each, so Ridgewood Avenue School sits 33% above that benchmark.

Within Glen Ridge Public School District, which oversees 5 schools and 1,746 students, Ridgewood Avenue School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Ridgewood Avenue School shows that the largest single group is White, at 76% of enrollment. The remainder is composed of 8% Asian, 7% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Essex County as a whole is about 30% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. Around 1% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Essex County (around 54%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Ridgewood Avenue School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 65.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 79.6%.

Zooming out to the county, Essex County reports that median household earnings sit near $80,789, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Essex County runs 249 public schools (combined enrollment of about 145,473 students), of which Ridgewood Avenue School is one.

Central School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Ridgewood Avenue School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 53.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Five-year trend. Ridgewood Avenue School's enrollment has ticked down 9% since 2018, when it stood at 594 (now 540). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 today.

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