West Brook Middle School

West Brook Middle School operates as a middle-of-the-pack middle school in PARAMUS, New Jersey, operated by Paramus Public School District. Current enrollment sits at 500 students spanning grades 5 through 8.

Within Paramus Public School District, which oversees 8 schools and 3,555 students, West Brook Middle School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, West Brook Middle School records that the most-represented group is White (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school reports 30% Asian, 19% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 3% Black. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.9:1, putting West Brook Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 15% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Bergen County runs at roughly 28%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, West Brook Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 58.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 58.4%.

In the surrounding community, Bergen County reports that the typical household earns roughly $124,884 per year, about 53% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Bergen County's 291 public schools (combined enrollment of about 133,883 students), West Brook Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Midland Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), West Brook Middle School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 74.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 15%: 590 students in 2018 compared to 500 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 56% to 43% across the same window.

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