School #6/Middle School

School #6/Middle School operates as a mid-tier middle school in CLIFFSIDE PARK, New Jersey, run under Cliffside Park School District. Current enrollment sits at 679 students spanning grades 5 through 8.

Cliffside Park School District comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 3,135 students; School #6/Middle School is among them.

Looking at the student body, School #6/Middle School logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 68% of enrollment; the rest is composed of 25% White, 4% Asian. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, School #6/Middle School has 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.7:1. The state averages around 10.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 68% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Bergen County (around 28%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), School #6/Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 28.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 41.7%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Bergen County put median household earnings sit near $124,884, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Bergen County runs 291 public schools (combined enrollment of about 133,883 students), of which School #6/Middle School is one.

Bergen Boulevard School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around School #6/Middle School. On composite proficiency, School #6/Middle School comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 43.7%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at School #6/Middle School has edged down 10%, going from 752 students in 2018 to 679 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 49% to 68%.

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