Westmoreland Elementary School
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 76 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 74 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 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 74% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 52% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 21 points, placing it in New Jersey's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Westmoreland Elementary School
Westmoreland Elementary School operates as a moderately sized elementary school in FAIR LAWN, New Jersey, part of Fair Lawn Public School District. Current enrollment sits at 359 students spanning grades pre-K through 4.
Fair Lawn Public School District comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 5,472 students; Westmoreland Elementary School is among them.
On demographics, Westmoreland Elementary School lists that 50% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 27% Hispanic, 16% Asian, 4% Black, 3% multiracial.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 25% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
After controlling for student poverty, Westmoreland Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of New Jersey public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 52.4%; Westmoreland Elementary School posts 73.7%, +21.2 points above that line.
Around the school, Bergen County reports that median household earnings sit near $124,884, 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), Westmoreland Elementary School is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is John A. Forrest Elementary School, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Westmoreland Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 61.9%.
The campus sits in a suburban setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Westmoreland Elementary School has ticked down 11%, going from 405 students in 2018 to 359 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 10.4:1 in 2018 to 9.0:1 in 2025.
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