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What's something Wallington Junior Senior High School does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
545
High
DISTRICT 386 · STATE 929
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WALLINGTON BORO SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341692000898
Wallington Junior Senior High School
234 MAIN AVE, WALLINGTON, NJ 07057 · (973) 777-0808 · Bergen County
GRADES 07–12HIGH21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL545 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 70% of New Jersey public high schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New Jersey public high schools
Student : Teacher
13.2:1
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 12.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
48%
264 students
DISTRICT 51% · STATE 41%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 7 | 93 | 17% |
| Grade 8 | 95 | 17% |
| Grade 9 | 77 | 14% |
| Grade 10 | 100 | 18% |
| Grade 11 | 88 | 16% |
| Grade 12 | 92 | 17% |
Student demographics
53%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 53% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Wallington Boro School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
61.2%
NJ avg 53.1% . +3.8pp since 2023
Math
46.7%
NJ avg 41.6% . +9.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 61 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 47 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 9 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 61.2% | 46.7% |
| 2023-24 | 57.4% | 37.5% |
% Meeting or Exceeding Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
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
41.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.6%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 42% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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 →
Schools most like Wallington Junior Senior High School
Wallington Junior Senior High School's state test result (41.7% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallington Junior Senior High School this school | 545 | 48.4% | 41.7% |
| Keyport High School KEYPORT | 372 | 43.8% | 22.4% |
| Hawthorne High School HAWTHORNE | 569 | 42.5% | 25.0% |
| Buena Regional High School BUENA | 491 | 56.8% | 16.7% |
| Middlesex High School MIDDLESEX | 597 | 45.7% | 31.8% |
| Manchester Township High School MANCHESTER | 947 | 50.2% | 24.8% |
Matched among New Jersey high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Wallington Junior Senior High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Bergen County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 41.7% | #159 of 397 | #33 of 48 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 46.7% | #101 of 400 ▲ 45 | #24 of 48 ▲ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 61.2% | #135 of 395 ▲ 84 | #31 of 48 ▲ 9 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 545 | #312 of 442 | #39 of 51 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.2:1 | #258 of 388 | #37 of 49 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.9% | #206 of 389 | #33 of 49 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 48.4% | #153 of 405 | #10 of 49 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.9% | #148 of 200 | #24 of 31 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
545
-33 (-6%) vs 2020
+21% since 1990-91, when it was 450
Student : Teacher
13.2:1
was 14.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 545 | 41.3 | 13.2:1 | 48% (264) |
| 2023-24 | 566 | 40.3 | 14.0:1 | 36% (205) |
| 2022-23 | 571 | 37.7 | 15.2:1 | 32% (183) |
| 2020-21 | 578 | 39 | 14.8:1 | 28% (161) |
| 2017-18 | 567 | 39.2 | 14.5:1 | 26% (148) |
| 2015-16 | 537 | 39 | 13.8:1 | 34% (180) |
| 2010-11 | 549 | 37 | 14.8:1 | 22% (119) |
| 2000-01 | 558 | 38 | 14.7:1 | 6% (32) |
| 1990-91 | 450 | 30 | 15.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Wallington Junior Senior High School.
Since 2017-18: students down 4% (567 to 545); teachers up 5% (39.2 to 41.3).
About Wallington Junior Senior High School
Wallington Junior Senior High School operates as a small high school in WALLINGTON, New Jersey. Federal data show 545 students enrolled in grades 7 through 12 in 2024-25. On average, high schools in New Jersey enroll around 929, and this school is 41% below that mark.
Wallington Junior Senior High School is one of the 3 schools that make up Wallington Boro School District (1,159 students in total).
More than half of enrollment at Wallington Junior Senior High School is White: 58%. Other groups make up 36% Hispanic, 3% Asian, and 2% Black. In Bergen County overall, the White share is about 55%. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 53%.
Teacher count: 41.3 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 13.2:1. That is in line with the 12.7:1 average for high schools in New Jersey. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 48%. Among public schools in Bergen County, the average eligibility rate is 28%.
On the allk12 Grade, Wallington Junior Senior High School lands at B+, ahead of 70% of New Jersey public high schools.
A school with Wallington Junior Senior High School's lunch-eligibility share in New Jersey is predicted to score 39.6%. Wallington Junior Senior High School scores 41.7%, 2.0 points above that line.
For the population of Bergen County, median household income comes to about $124,884, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of people live in poverty. Bergen County's 291 public schools enroll about 133,883 students and include Wallington Junior Senior High School.
About 0.2 miles separate Wallington Junior Senior High School from the closest public school, Frank W. Gavlak Elementary School. The five-mile area around Wallington Junior Senior High School holds at least 8 other public schools. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Wallington Junior Senior High School at 6th of 8.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment fell from 578 to 545, a 6% decrease. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 14.8:1 to 13.2:1.
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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 Wallington Boro School District
- Frank W. Gavlak Elementary SchoolElementary · 361 students
- Jefferson (Annex) Elementary SchoolElementary · 253 students
Other schools in WALLINGTON
- Frank W. Gavlak Elementary SchoolElementary · 361 students
- Jefferson (Annex) Elementary SchoolElementary · 253 students
Nearby schools
- Frank W. Gavlak Elementary School0.2 mi · 361
- Jefferson (Annex) Elementary School0.5 mi · 253
- McKenzie School0.7 mi · 369
- Catherine E. Doyle Elementary School0.8 mi · 479
- James Madison School #100.9 mi · 280
- Abraham Lincoln School #60.9 mi · 385
Frequently asked questions
About Wallington Junior Senior High SchoolHow many students attend Wallington Junior Senior High School?
Wallington Junior Senior High School enrolls approximately 545 students in grades 07-12.
What age range does Wallington Junior Senior High School serve?
Wallington Junior Senior High School serves students from grade 07 through grade 12.
How many students per teacher at Wallington Junior Senior High School?
Approximately 13.2:1 students per teacher at Wallington Junior Senior High School.
What is the student diversity at Wallington Junior Senior High School?
Student demographics at Wallington Junior Senior High School are roughly 58% White, 36% Hispanic, 2% Black, 3% Asian, 0% Two or more.
Is Wallington Junior Senior High School public or private?
Wallington Junior Senior High School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Wallington Boro School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.