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School No. 4
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About 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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