School #17

Located at 361 LEXINGTON AVENUE, in CLIFTON, New Jersey, School #17 is a moderately sized elementary school that caters to 501 students (grades pre-K through 5), part of Clifton Public School District. That puts it 24% larger than the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 405 students.

Within Clifton Public School District, which oversees 19 schools and 10,516 students, School #17 is one campus in the system.

Demographically, School #17 records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (82%). Beyond that, the school reports 12% White, 3% Black, 2% Asian. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting School #17 tighter than the state norm the norm. About 84% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Passaic County's rate of about 61%.

With demographic context factored in, School #17 performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 20.3%, the actual is 30.0%, a residual of +9.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, Passaic County reports that median household earnings sit near $87,522, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 School #17 is one.

The closest other public school is Daniel F. Ryan Elementary School No. 19, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), School #17 ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 19.2%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Five-year trend. School #17's enrollment has fell 10% since 2018, when it stood at 558 (now 501). Class-load math has pulled in: from 11.8:1 in 2018 to 8.8:1 in 2025.

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