Tulsa Trail Elementary School

Located at 2 Tulsa Trail, in Hopatcong, New Jersey, Tulsa Trail Elementary School is a compact K-5 school that serves 215 students (grades 2 through 3), one of the schools within Hopatcong Borough School District. That puts it 47% below the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 405 students.

Hopatcong Borough School District runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,442 students. Tulsa Trail Elementary School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Tulsa Trail Elementary School lists that the largest single group is White at 50%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school records 37% Hispanic, 7% Black, 3% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Sussex County as a whole is about 82% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Tulsa Trail Elementary School reports 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.2:1. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 42% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Sussex County's rate of about 23%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Tulsa Trail Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 43.3%; this one delivers 37.1%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Sussex County indicate median household income runs about $116,186, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Tulsa Trail Elementary School is one of 46 public schools in Sussex County (combined enrollment of about 19,579 students).

Hopatcong High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Tulsa Trail Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Tulsa Trail Elementary School comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 41.4%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Five-year trend. Tulsa Trail Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 16% since 2018, when it stood at 255 (now 215). White enrollment moved from 72% to 50% across the same window. Class-load math has rose: from 10.9:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 in 2025.

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