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What's the biggest difference between School No. 4 and what you expected?
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Enrollment
377
Elementary
DISTRICT 402 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FORT LEE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340531000450
School No. 4
1193 ANDERSON AVE, FORT LEE, NJ 07024 · (201) 585-4650 · Bergen County
GRADES KG–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL377 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
11.9:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.5:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
20%
75 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
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. 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
55.0%
NJ avg 53.1% . -8.6pp since 2023
Math
64.9%
NJ avg 41.6% . +4.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 65 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
Source: NJSLA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
61.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
55.3%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New Jersey's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
377
-245 (-39%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
11.9:1
was 15.4:1
% White
29%
was 32%
% Hispanic
22%
was 18%
% Black
1%
was 3%
% Asian
41%
was 44%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About School No. 4
School No. 4 is a primary school of average-sized scale in FORT LEE, New Jersey, part of Fort Lee School District, enrolling 377 students in grades K through 4.
Across the 6 schools in Fort Lee School District (4,006 students total), School No. 4 accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Demographically, School No. 4 logs that the largest single group is Asian at 41%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school lists 29% White, 22% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Bergen County as a whole is about 17% Asian, so the school skews visibly more Asian than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, School No. 4 has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.9:1. The state averages about 11.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 20% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), School No. 4 performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.3%, the actual is 61.0%, a residual of +5.7 points.
In the broader community, community-level numbers for Bergen County indicate median household income runs about $124,884, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Bergen County's 291 public schools (combined enrollment of about 133,883 students), School No. 4 is one campus in the mix.
Palisades Park Jr-Sr High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, School No. 4 comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 49.9%.
The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at School No. 4 has fell 39%, going from 622 students in 2018 to 377 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 18% to 22% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 in 2025.
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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. 1Elementary · 540 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. 1Elementary · 540 students
- School No. 2Elementary · 362 students
- School No. 3Elementary · 330 students
Nearby schools
- Palisades Park Jr-Sr High School0.6 mi · 747
- George Washington School0.7 mi · 333
- Lewis F. Cole Middle School0.7 mi · 1,227
- Lindbergh Elementary School0.8 mi · 762
- School #40.9 mi · 478
- Bergen Boulevard School0.9 mi · 187
Frequently asked questions
About School No. 4How many students attend School No. 4?
School No. 4 enrolls approximately 377 students in grades KG-04.
Is School No. 4 an elementary, middle, or high school?
School No. 4 is an elementary school covering grades KG-04.
How many students per teacher at School No. 4?
Approximately 11.9:1 students per teacher at School No. 4.
How diverse is School No. 4?
School No. 4 reports a student body of 29% White, 22% Hispanic, 1% Black, 41% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is School No. 4 public or private?
School No. 4 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.