School No. 3

School No. 3, a small elementary school in FORT LEE, New Jersey, part of Fort Lee School District, enrolls 330 students, covering grades pre-K through 4.

Within Fort Lee School District, which oversees 6 schools and 4,006 students, School No. 3 is one campus in the system.

On demographics, School No. 3 reports that 53% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder reads as 21% Hispanic, 15% White, 6% Black, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 17%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 28% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, School No. 3 sits in the top 10% of New Jersey schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 50.9%; actual is 69.2%, +18.3 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Across the wider county, Bergen County reports that the typical household earns roughly $124,884 per year, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Bergen County runs 291 public schools (combined enrollment of about 133,883 students), of which School No. 3 is one.

Fort Lee High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around School No. 3. On composite proficiency, School No. 3 comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 63.6%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at School No. 3 has ticked down 43%, going from 576 students in 2018 to 330 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 23% to 15% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 10.1:1 in 2025.

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