Robert Fulton Elementary School

Robert Fulton Elementary School is a substantial elementary school in NORTH BERGEN, New Jersey, part of North Bergen School District. The school serves 938 students in grades 1 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 132% bigger than the state mean of about 405.

Within North Bergen School District, which oversees 8 schools and 7,031 students, Robert Fulton Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Robert Fulton Elementary School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (90%). Beyond that, the school reports 7% White. The wider county runs roughly 41% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 71 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting Robert Fulton Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 67% of students at Robert Fulton Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Robert Fulton Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.6%, the actual is 35.3%, a residual of +5.7 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Hudson County indicate median household earnings sit near $91,795, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Hudson County's 130 public schools (combined enrollment of about 86,216 students), Robert Fulton Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Anna L. Klein, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Robert Fulton Elementary School comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 27.1%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Five-year trend. Robert Fulton Elementary School's enrollment has decreased 21% since 2018, when it stood at 1,192 (now 938). The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 12.1:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.