Middle Schools in Elmwood Park School District

Summary:

The Elmwood Park School District in New Jersey has only one middle school, Memorial Middle School, which serves grades 6-8. The school's performance has declined over the past three years, with its statewide ranking dropping from 452 out of 748 New Jersey middle schools in 2022-2023 to 506 out of 752 in 2024-2025.

Memorial Middle School's proficiency rates on the NJSLA (New Jersey Student Learning Assessments) are generally below the state average, with lower scores in English Language Arts (ELA) and Mathematics compared to the New Jersey averages. The school's performance is particularly low in 8th grade Algebra I and 8th grade Science, where its proficiency rates are significantly lower than the state. However, the school's Algebra I proficiency rate is higher than the district and state averages.

The school faces some socioeconomic challenges, with 46.06% of its students receiving free or reduced-price lunch, indicating a significant population of economically disadvantaged students. Despite this, the school has a relatively low student-teacher ratio of 11:1, which is lower than the state average. However, the school's per-student spending for the 2018-2019 school year was $6,790, which is below the state average, and this may be a contributing factor to its performance challenges.

District Detail

60 East 53rd Street
Elmwood Park, NJ 07407

(201) 796-8700

SchoolDigger Rank:
441^st of 609 New Jersey districts

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Grades served: PK, KG-12
Students: 2,597

Primary Schools: 3
Middle Schools: 1
High Schools: 1
Alternative Schools: 0

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School													Students/Teachers											Ranking (2025)				Ranking (2024)				NJSLA-S Science (2025)	NJSLA English Language Arts (2025)			NJSLA Mathematics (2025)			NJSLA Algebra I (2025)		Per Pupil Expenditures (2019)
Name	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	Enrollment	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Free/Discounted Lunch Recipients	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Average Standard Score (2025)	Statewide Rank (2025)	State Percentile (2025)	SchoolDigger Rating (2025)	Average Standard Score (2024)	Statewide Rank (2024)	State Percentile (2024)	Rank Change from Previous Year	NJSLA-S Science 8th Grade	NJSLA English Language Arts 6th Grade	NJSLA English Language Arts 7th Grade	NJSLA English Language Arts 8th Grade	NJSLA Mathematics 6th Grade	NJSLA Mathematics 7th Grade	NJSLA Mathematics 8th Grade	NJSLA Algebra I 8th Grade	NJSLA Algebra I End of Course	Per Pupil Expenditures Total	Sub-total from Federal Funds	Sub-total from State/Local Funds
Memorial Middle School	Public	6-8	375 River Drive	Elmwood Park	07407	Bergen County	Elmwood Park School District	No	(n/a)	No	Yes	(201) 796-8700	569	46	12.4	53.3%	168 (29.5%)	76 (13.4%)	272 (47.8%)	42 (7.4%)	2 (0.4%)	1 (0.2%)	8 (1.4%)	30.8	506^th of 752 public middle schools	32.7%		30.6	503^rd of 743 public middle schools	32.3%	3	5.6	54.7	46.9	48.6	20.8	25.0	5.3	53.8	53.8	$6,790	$1,062	$5,728

Districts nearby

District	Distance	# of Schools	Statewide Rank
Paterson Public School District	0.66 mi	45	561^st
Fair Lawn Public School District	1.24 mi	9	59^th
Saddle Brook School District	1.42 mi	5	277^th
Garfield Public School District	1.5 mi	11	353^rd
Paterson Charter School for Science and Technology	1.64 mi	1

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the New Jersey Department of Education.

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