Summary:
The Carlstadt Public School District in New Jersey contains a single elementary school, Carlstadt Public School, which serves students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. The school's performance has fluctuated in recent years, with a statewide ranking between 570 and 651 out of 1,338-1,347 New Jersey elementary schools and a consistent 3-star rating from SchoolDigger.
Carlstadt Public School's academic performance on the NJSLA assessments varies across grade levels and subjects. While 7th-grade students achieve proficiency rates as high as 79.2% in English Language Arts, 3rd-grade students struggle, with only 38.2% proficient. In mathematics, the school's performance is similarly uneven, ranging from 26.8% proficiency in 3rd grade to 87.6% in 8th-grade Algebra I. The school's science proficiency rates, at 35.6% in 5th grade and 19.1% in 8th grade, are slightly above the state average.
The school serves a student population of 510, with a free and reduced-price lunch rate of 32.55% and a student-teacher ratio of 11.7 for the 2023-2024 school year. The school's per-student spending for the 2018-2019 school year was $13,954, which is in line with the state average. However, the school's chronic absenteeism rate of 14.9% is higher than the state average, which may be a contributing factor to the uneven academic performance.
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