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What's something School No. 1 does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
540
Elementary
DISTRICT 402 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FORT LEE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340531000444
School No. 1
250 HOYM STREET, FORT LEE, NJ 07024 · (201) 585-4620 · Bergen County
GRADES KG–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL540 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 97% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+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
10.7:1
51 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.5:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
18%
95 students
DISTRICT 24% · STATE 41%
Community
1
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 | 96 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 106 | 20% |
| Grade 2 | 96 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 120 | 22% |
| Grade 4 | 122 | 23% |
This year's kindergarten class (96) is 21% smaller than its 4th grade class (122).
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · 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
Based on grade levels within Fort Lee School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
78.0%
NJ avg 53.1% . +4.1pp since 2023
Math
81.9%
NJ avg 41.6% . +5.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 78 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 82 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 78.0% | 81.9% |
| 2023-24 | 73.9% | 76.7% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NJ schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
77.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
56.5%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+21.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 78% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 57% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 21 points, placing it in New Jersey's top 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 School No. 1
School No. 1's state test result (77.6% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| School No. 1 this school | 540 | 17.6% | 77.6% |
| Brooks Crossing Elementary School MONMOUTH JUNCTION | 498 | 17.5% | 65.3% |
| Indian Fields Elementary School DAYTON | 460 | 17.6% | 60.0% |
| Dutch Neck Elementary School West Windsor | 557 | 8.6% | 64.2% |
| Anna C. Scott Elementary School Leonia | 517 | 18.2% | 64.7% |
| Maurice Hawk Elementary School West Windsor | 723 | 11.3% | 71.5% |
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 School No. 1 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Bergen County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 77.6% | #54 of 1,290 | #15 of 137 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 81.9% | #67 of 1,319 ▲ 37 | #20 of 149 ▲ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 78.0% | #122 of 1,319 ▲ 58 | #41 of 149 ▲ 10 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 540 | #323 of 1,562 | #13 of 173 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.7:1 | #528 of 1,390 | #59 of 151 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.5% | #629 of 1,392 | #86 of 151 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 17.6% | #1,078 of 1,481 | #87 of 154 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -22.0% | #142 of 798 | #17 of 85 |
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
540
+14 (+3%) vs 2020
+25% since 1990-91, when it was 432
Student : Teacher
10.7:1
was 11.4:1
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 | 540 | 50.6 | 10.7:1 | 18% (95) |
| 2023-24 | 546 | 48.6 | 11.2:1 | 9% (49) |
| 2022-23 | 542 | 46.9 | 11.6:1 | 9% (47) |
| 2020-21 | 526 | 46 | 11.4:1 | 9% (46) |
| 2017-18 | 692 | 47.5 | 14.6:1 | 13% (93) |
| 2015-16 | 668 | 52 | 12.8:1 | 14% (93) |
| 2010-11 | 629 | 36 | 17.5:1 | 17% (105) |
| 2000-01 | 598 | 29 | 20.6:1 | 13% (79) |
| 1990-91 | 432 | 26 | 16.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for School No. 1.
Since 2017-18: students down 22% (692 to 540); teachers up 7% (47.5 to 50.6).
About School No. 1
Families in FORT LEE, New Jersey, are served by School No. 1, a mid-sized elementary school. Federal data show 540 students enrolled in kindergarten through 4 in 2024-25. Across elementary schools in New Jersey, the average enrollment is about 405.
Fort Lee School District is made up of 6 schools with 4,006 students in all.
The largest group at School No. 1 is Asian students, at 62%. Enrollment also includes 18% White, 13% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, and 2% Black. Among people living in Bergen County, the Asian share is about 17%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, School No. 1 scores 56%.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 10.7:1. The school has 50.6 full-time-equivalent teachers. The gap from the 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey is 0.8 students per teacher. In all, 18% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Among public schools in Bergen County, the average eligibility rate is 28%.
School No. 1 holds an A+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 97% of New Jersey public elementary schools.
School No. 1 is 21.1 points above expectations on state tests, given its student poverty level, placing it in the top 10% in New Jersey.
The school is in Bergen County, where median household income comes to about $124,884, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Bergen County counts 291 public schools with about 133,883 students.
A public school about 0.4 miles away, Lewis F. Cole Middle School, is the closest to School No. 1. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of School No. 1. Of 8 schools in the immediate area with test results, School No. 1 ranks 1st on average proficiency.
School No. 1 falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 540, compared with 526 in 2020-21.
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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 Fort Lee School District
- Lewis F. Cole Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,227 students
- Fort Lee High SchoolHigh · 1,170 students
- School No. 4Elementary · 377 students
- School No. 2Elementary · 362 students
- School No. 3Elementary · 330 students
Other schools in FORT LEE
- Lewis F. Cole Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,227 students
- Fort Lee High SchoolHigh · 1,170 students
- School No. 4Elementary · 377 students
- School No. 2Elementary · 362 students
- School No. 3Elementary · 330 students
Nearby schools
- Lewis F. Cole Middle School0.4 mi · 1,227
- George Washington School0.6 mi · 333
- Fort Lee High School0.7 mi · 1,170
- School No. 20.7 mi · 362
- School No. 40.9 mi · 377
- Lindbergh Elementary School1.0 mi · 762
Frequently asked questions
About School No. 1How many students attend School No. 1?
School No. 1 enrolls approximately 540 students in grades KG-04.
What age range does School No. 1 serve?
School No. 1 serves students from grade KG through grade 04.
How many teachers does School No. 1 have?
School No. 1 employs 51 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.7:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at School No. 1?
At School No. 1, the student body is approximately 18% White, 13% Hispanic, 2% Black, 62% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is School No. 1 public or private?
School No. 1 is a public K-12 school, overseen by Fort Lee School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.