Washington School

Washington School is an elementary campus of moderately sized scale in RUTHERFORD, New Jersey, operated by Rutherford School District, enrolling 349 students in grades 1 through 3.

Rutherford School District runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 2,544 students. Washington School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Washington School lists that the largest single group is White at 44%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 23% Hispanic, 19% Asian, 12% multiracial, 2% Black. By comparison, Bergen County as a whole is about 55% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. Around 7% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Bergen County runs at roughly 28%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Washington School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.5%, the actual is 60.1%, a residual of -2.5 points.

In the surrounding community, Bergen County reports that the typical household earns roughly $124,884 per year, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Bergen County's 291 public schools (combined enrollment of about 133,883 students), Washington School is one campus in the mix.

Rutherford High 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 Washington School. On composite proficiency, Washington School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 55.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Washington School has rose 4%, going from 335 students in 2018 to 349 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 50% to 44% across the same window.

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