Enrollment
304
Elementary
DISTRICT 258 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SADDLE BROOK SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341449000830
Salome H. Long Memorial School
260 FLORAL LANE, SADDLE BROOK, NJ 07663 · (201) 843-1142 · Bergen County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL304 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 64% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New Jersey public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.9:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.8:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
20%
60 students
DISTRICT 27% · STATE 41%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 37 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 47 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 35 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 44 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 52 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 39 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 50 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (37) is 26% smaller than its 6th grade class (50).
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 60% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Salome H. Long Memorial School→Saddle Brook Middle/High School
Based on grade levels within Saddle Brook School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
62.2%
NJ avg 53.1% . +2.0pp since 2023
Math
66.1%
NJ avg 41.6% . +17.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 66 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 17 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 62.2% | 66.1% |
| 2023-24 | 60.2% | 48.6% |
% Meeting or Exceeding Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: NJSLA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
57.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
55.4%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New Jersey's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Salome H. Long Memorial School
Salome H. Long Memorial School's state test result (57.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salome H. Long Memorial School this school | 304 | 19.7% | 57.0% |
| Berkeley Elementary WESTWOOD | 277 | 18.1% | 74.3% |
| Riverdale School RIVERDALE | 273 | 22.3% | 51.6% |
| Community Park School PRINCETON | 316 | 17.1% | 63.3% |
| Cambridge Park Elementary School Aberdeen | 286 | 19.6% | N/A |
| Birchwood Elementary School DOVER | 314 | 21.0% | 53.8% |
Matched among New Jersey elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Salome H. Long Memorial School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Bergen County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 57.0% | #391 of 1,290 | #82 of 137 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 66.1% | #313 of 1,319 ▲ 253 | #77 of 149 ▲ 33 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 62.2% | #441 of 1,319 ▲ 8 | #105 of 149 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 304 | #1,090 of 1,562 | #112 of 173 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.9:1 | #1,066 of 1,390 | #115 of 151 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.8% | #649 of 1,392 | #91 of 151 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 19.7% | #1,040 of 1,481 | #79 of 154 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +11.8% | #207 of 545 | #17 of 64 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
304
+17 (+6%) vs 2020
+17% since 1990-91, when it was 259
Student : Teacher
12.9:1
was 12.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 304 | 23.6 | 12.9:1 | 20% (60) |
| 2023-24 | 309 | 24.6 | 12.6:1 | 15% (46) |
| 2022-23 | 299 | 23.6 | 12.7:1 | 5% (15) |
| 2020-21 | 287 | 23 | 12.5:1 | 8% (24) |
| 2017-18 | 272 | 24.5 | 11.1:1 | 8% (23) |
| 2015-16 | 276 | 25 | 11.0:1 | 10% (27) |
| 2010-11 | 325 | 16 | 20.3:1 | 6% (20) |
| 2000-01 | 287 | 15 | 19.1:1 | 2% (7) |
| 1990-91 | 259 | 16 | 16.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Salome H. Long Memorial School.
Since 2017-18: students up 12% (272 to 304); teachers down 4% (24.5 to 23.6).
About Salome H. Long Memorial School
Salome H. Long Memorial School is a small elementary school in SADDLE BROOK, New Jersey, (ZIP code 07663). It covers kindergarten through 6, with a total enrollment of 304 students. Enrollment is 25% lower than the average for elementary schools in New Jersey, which is about 405.
The Saddle Brook School District system has 5 schools and 1,836 students.
White students account for 60% of enrollment at Salome H. Long Memorial School. Other groups include 28% Hispanic and 10% Asian. Salome H. Long Memorial School has a diversity index of 56%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
With 23.6 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, the ratio at Salome H. Long Memorial School was 12.9:1. Among elementary schools in New Jersey, the typical ratio is 11.4:1. Salome H. Long Memorial School's free or reduced-price lunch eligibility rate is 20%.
The allk12 Grade for Salome H. Long Memorial School is B. Compared with New Jersey public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 64% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Salome H. Long Memorial School is +1.7 points: 57.0% actual, 55.4% predicted.
Federal survey data for Bergen County show that median household income is about $124,884, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 53% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. A total of 291 public schools operate in Bergen County, serving about 133,883 students.
Helen I. Smith School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles away. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools average 51.0% on proficiency, and Salome H. Long Memorial School is above that at 57.0%.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The 2024-25 enrollment of 304 was 6% higher than in 2020-21, when it was 287.
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Bergen County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
962,316
Census ACS
Median income
$124,884
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
53%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
291
133,883 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Saddle Brook School District
- Saddle Brook Middle/High SchoolHigh · 806 students
- Helen I. Smith SchoolElementary · 340 students
- Franklin SchoolElementary · 328 students
- Washington SchoolElementary · 58 students
Other schools in SADDLE BROOK
- Saddle Brook Middle/High SchoolHigh · 806 students
- Helen I. Smith SchoolElementary · 340 students
- Franklin SchoolElementary · 328 students
- Washington SchoolElementary · 58 students
Nearby schools
- Helen I. Smith School0.4 mi · 340
- Warren Point Elementary School0.7 mi · 391
- Sixteenth Avenue School0.9 mi · 410
- Saddle Brook Middle/High School1.0 mi · 806
- Gilbert Avenue School1.2 mi · 456
- Thomas Jefferson Middle School1.3 mi · 1,100
Frequently asked questions
About Salome H. Long Memorial SchoolHow large is Salome H. Long Memorial School?
Salome H. Long Memorial School enrolls approximately 304 students in grades KG-06.
Is Salome H. Long Memorial School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Salome H. Long Memorial School is an elementary school covering grades KG-06.
How many teachers does Salome H. Long Memorial School have?
Salome H. Long Memorial School employs 24 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.9:1.
What is the student diversity at Salome H. Long Memorial School?
Student demographics at Salome H. Long Memorial School are roughly 60% White, 28% Hispanic, 1% Black, 10% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is Salome H. Long Memorial School in?
Salome H. Long Memorial School is part of Saddle Brook School District.
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