Summary:
The seven schools in Bergenfield Borough School District—five elementary schools, one middle school and one high school—serve families in Bergenfield, New Jersey, from elementary through high school. In the latest elementary results, the average was above the state in every tested grade and subject, but school results varied widely: grade 3 math ranged from 30% to 83%, and grade 4 math from 31% to 80%. The most important takeaway is that strong area averages do not reflect the very different results families may see from one school to another.
Lincoln Elementary School is the broadest elementary standout, leading five of the seven subject-and-grade comparisons, including grade 3 math at 83%—12 percentage points above the next-highest school and 34 above the state. Franklin Elementary School leads grade 4 math at 80%, 20 points above the next school, and grade 4 ELA at 61%. Hoover Elementary School is the clearest concern: it is lowest in grade 3 and 4 ELA and math, with grade 4 ELA at 26% versus 46% statewide. At Roy W. Brown Middle School, grade 6 ELA and math were 18% and 19%, well below state rates of 51% and 40%, while grade 7 and 8 results were above state rates.
Elementary results weakened overall: the combined ELA and math average fell from 60% to 55% between 2024–2025 and 2025–2026, while the state average slipped from 49% to 48%. There were bright spots, including a 29-point rise in Washington Elementary School grade 3 ELA; meanwhile, Roy W. Brown’s grade 6 results fell sharply. SchoolDigger rankings also diverged: Bergenfield High School rose from the 62nd to the 81st percentile, while Lincoln fell from the 86th to the 76th and Hoover from the 60th to the 42nd. Bergenfield High’s 2024–2025 graduation rate was 95%, compared with 89% statewide. Context measures do not sort neatly with results: Hoover had the lowest elementary student–teacher ratio, 10.6, and the highest free/reduced lunch eligible share, 57% in 2024–2025, while Lincoln and Franklin were each about 38%.
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