School #12

School #12 is an elementary school of average-sized scale in CLIFTON, New Jersey, overseen by Clifton Public School District, educateing 560 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 405 students each, so School #12 sits 38% bigger than that benchmark.

Within Clifton Public School District, which oversees 19 schools and 10,516 students, School #12 is one campus in the system.

Demographically, School #12 reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (84%). The remainder comes out to 12% White. By comparison, Passaic County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, School #12 has 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting School #12 tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 86% of students at School #12 qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Passaic County (around 61%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, School #12 tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 19.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 25.0%.

In the broader community, census data for Passaic County shows the typical household earns roughly $87,522 per year, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. School #12 is one of 155 public schools in Passaic County (combined enrollment of about 83,237 students).

Nearest neighbor: School #17, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around School #12. On composite proficiency, School #12 comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 30.3%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at School #12 has ticked down 18%, going from 684 students in 2018 to 560 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 today.

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