School No. 1

School No. 1 operates as a mid-tier elementary school in FORT LEE, New Jersey, operated by Fort Lee School District. Current enrollment sits at 540 students spanning grades K through 4. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 405 students each, so School No. 1 sits 33% above that benchmark.

Within Fort Lee School District, which oversees 6 schools and 4,006 students, School No. 1 is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, School No. 1 logs that Asian students make up the majority at 62%. The remainder is composed of 18% White, 13% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 2% Black. The wider county runs roughly 17% Asian, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Asian than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school lists 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. About 18% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Bergen County's rate of about 28%.

With demographic context factored in, School No. 1 sits in the top 10% of New Jersey schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 56.5%; actual is 77.6%, +21.1 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the area at large, census data for Bergen County shows median household income runs about $124,884, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Bergen County's 291 public schools (combined enrollment of about 133,883 students), School No. 1 is one campus in the mix.

Lewis F. Cole Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around School No. 1. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts School No. 1 at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 59.0%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at School No. 1 has declined 22%, going from 692 students in 2018 to 540 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment edged up from 54% to 62% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 in 2025.

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