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Teaneck High School
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Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 30 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 33% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Teaneck High School
Located at 100 ELIZABETH AVE, in TEANECK, New Jersey, Teaneck High School is a mid-tier high school that serves 1,244 students (grades 9 through 12), run under Teaneck School District. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 929 students each, so Teaneck High School sits 34% bigger than that benchmark.
Teaneck School District comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 3,630 students; Teaneck High School is among them.
On demographics, Teaneck High School reports that 45% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest comes out to 32% Black, 10% White, 9% Asian, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 23% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 104 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 42% of students at Teaneck High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Bergen County's rate of about 28%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Teaneck High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 43.1%; this one delivers 33.2%.
Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Bergen County) shows that median household earnings sit near $124,884, roughly 53% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Bergen County runs 291 public schools (combined enrollment of about 133,883 students), of which Teaneck High School is one.
Theodora Smiley Lacey Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Teaneck High School. On composite proficiency, Teaneck High School comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 46.1%.
Teaneck High School operates from a suburban location.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Teaneck High School has showed little movement, going from 1,233 students in 2018 to 1,244 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 34% to 45%. Class-load math has rose: from 10.4:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 in 2025.
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