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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Wanaque Elementary School administration to hear?
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Enrollment
506
Elementary
DISTRICT 444 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WANAQUE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341695004960
Wanaque Elementary School
FIRST STREET, WANAQUE, NJ 07465 · (973) 835-8200 · Passaic County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL506 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 49% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
10.1:1
50 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.8:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
21%
108 students
DISTRICT 31% · 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, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 31 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 53 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 66 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 58 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 40 | 8% |
| Grade 4 | 52 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 40 | 8% |
| Grade 6 | 56 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 51 | 10% |
| Grade 8 | 59 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (53) is 10% smaller than its 8th grade class (59).
Student demographics
55%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 57% · 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
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
62.9%
NJ avg 53.1% . +2.2pp since 2023
Math
49.7%
NJ avg 41.6% . +3.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 63 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 50 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 62.9% | 49.7% |
| 2023-24 | 60.7% | 46.3% |
% 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
51.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.5%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 54% 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 Wanaque Elementary School
Wanaque Elementary School's state test result (51.8% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wanaque Elementary School this school | 506 | 21.3% | 51.8% |
| Lincoln Park Elementary School LINCOLN PARK | 500 | 24.8% | 64.7% |
| Marion T. Bedwell Elementary School Bernardsville | 435 | 23.4% | 61.3% |
| Laura Donovan School FREEHOLD | 441 | 21.8% | 53.3% |
| Strathmore Elementary School ABERDEEN | 481 | 23.9% | 54.2% |
| Mountain View Elementary School FLANDERS | 565 | 21.2% | 54.4% |
Matched among New Jersey elementary 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 Wanaque Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Passaic County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 51.8% | #484 of 1,290 | #21 of 87 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 49.7% | #592 of 1,319 ▲ 42 | #26 of 87 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 62.9% | #429 of 1,319 ▲ 10 | #15 of 87 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 506 | #394 of 1,562 | #25 of 100 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.1:1 | #361 of 1,390 | #15 of 89 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.6% | #673 of 1,392 | #30 of 89 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 21.3% | #1,011 of 1,481 | #84 of 97 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +0.6% | #531 of 545 | #18 of 18 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
506
+28 (+6%) vs 2020
-4% since 1990-91, when it was 526
Student : Teacher
10.1:1
was 10.2:1
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 | 506 | 50.3 | 10.1:1 | 21% (108) |
| 2023-24 | 510 | 48.8 | 10.5:1 | 18% (90) |
| 2022-23 | 507 | 49 | 10.4:1 | 17% (88) |
| 2020-21 | 478 | 47 | 10.2:1 | 16% (76) |
| 2017-18 | 503 | 46.2 | 10.9:1 | 13% (66) |
| 2015-16 | 517 | 47 | 11.0:1 | 16% (84) |
| 2010-11 | 532 | 38 | 14.0:1 | 10% (51) |
| 2000-01 | 551 | 37 | 14.9:1 | 13% (73) |
| 1990-91 | 526 | 40 | 13.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Wanaque Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 1% (503 to 506); teachers up 9% (46.2 to 50.3).
About Wanaque Elementary School
Located in WANAQUE, New Jersey, Wanaque Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school. There are 506 students enrolled, covering pre-K through 8. On average, elementary schools in New Jersey enroll around 405, and this school is 25% bigger than that mark.
Wanaque School District runs Wanaque Elementary School along with 1 other school, enrolling 888 students in total.
Federal enrollment data show Wanaque Elementary School is 60% White. The next largest groups are 30% Hispanic, 5% Asian, and 2% Black. The school's White share is 19 points above the 41% share among Passaic County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 55%.
The school lists 50.3 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.1:1. The average for elementary schools in New Jersey is 11.4:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. A total of 108 students, or 21%, are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. On average, public schools in Passaic County report 61%.
Wanaque Elementary School earns a B- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 49% of New Jersey public elementary schools.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, Wanaque Elementary School is 2.7 points below its prediction. Actual: 51.8%. Predicted: 54.5%.
The county, Passaic County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $87,522 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 31%, and about 11% of people live in poverty. Counting Wanaque Elementary School, Passaic County has 155 public schools.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Lakeland Regional High School, is about 0.4 miles. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 57.0%; Wanaque Elementary School's is 51.8%, ranking 6th of 8.
Locale data from NCES put Wanaque Elementary School in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more (Suburb: Large).
Enrollment rose by 6% across 4 years, from 478 in 2020-21 to 506 in 2024-25.
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Passaic County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
521,012
Census ACS
Median income
$87,522
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
31%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
155
83,237 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Wanaque School District
- Haskell Elementary SchoolElementary · 382 students
Nearby schools
- Lakeland Regional High School0.4 mi · 823
- Peter Cooper School1.3 mi · 235
- Haskell Elementary School1.5 mi · 382
- Robert Erskine School2.9 mi · 169
- Valley Middle School3.0 mi · 446
- Martha B. Day Elementary School3.2 mi · 207
Frequently asked questions
About Wanaque Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Wanaque Elementary School?
Wanaque Elementary School enrolls approximately 506 students in grades PK-08.
Is Wanaque Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Wanaque Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-08.
How many teachers does Wanaque Elementary School have?
Wanaque Elementary School employs 50 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.1:1.
How diverse is Wanaque Elementary School?
Wanaque Elementary School reports a student body of 60% White, 30% Hispanic, 2% Black, 5% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees Wanaque Elementary School?
Wanaque Elementary School is overseen by Wanaque School District in Passaic County.
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