Upper School

Public 3-8

 143 Charlotte Pl
       Englewood Cliffs, NJ  07632


(201) 567-7292

District: Englewood Cliffs School District

SchoolDigger Rank:
9th of 748 New Jersey Middle Schools

Per Pupil Expenditures:  $12,826 Help


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Elementary:    North Cliff School

Student/teacher ratio:  6.4 Help
Number of students:  264

Racial breakdown:

Asian:
59.8%
White:
25.4%
Hispanic:
6.8%
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Free/discounted lunch recipients:  1.1% Help


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Compare Details Upper School ranks better than 96.3% of elementary schools in New Jersey. (See more...)
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Compare Details In 2023 the calculated Average Standard Score was 93.93. (See more...)
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Compare Details Upper School ranks better than 98.8% of middle schools in New Jersey. (See more...)
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Compare Details In 2023 the calculated Average Standard Score was 95.63. (See more...)
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Student Body
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Compare Details Racial makeup is: Asian (59.8%), White (25.4%), Hispanic (6.8%). (See more...)
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Compare Details The student/teacher ratio at Upper School is 6.4. (See more...)
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Compare Details The average total spent per student at Upper School is $12,826.
Schooldigger 2023 Rankings:

Upper School:

SchoolDigger ranks Upper School 49th of 1342 New Jersey public elementary schools. (See Upper School in the ranking list.)

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SchoolDigger ranks Upper School 9th of 748 New Jersey public middle schools. (See Upper School in the ranking list.)

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Englewood Cliffs School District:

SchoolDigger ranks Englewood Cliffs School District 12th of 615 New Jersey school districts. (See district ranking list.)


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Rank History for Upper School

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Rank History for all elementary school students at Upper School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools NJ State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2003 77.25 294th 1204 75.6%
2004 79.12 210th 1298 83.8%
2005 83.84 70th 1303 94.6%
2006 86.05 13th 1314 99.0%
2007 86.25 6th 1329 99.5%
2008 88.84 1st 1338 99.9%
2009 87.00 49th 1346 96.4%
2010 88.05 19th 1354 98.6%
2011 87.74 24th 1360 98.2%
2012 87.04 34th 1363 97.5%
2013 83.33 137th 1367 90.0%
2014 85.72 93rd 1363 93.2%
2015 85.87 178th 1357 86.9%
2016 81.20 245th 1346 81.8%
2017 92.85 38th 1352 97.2%
2018 95.56 12th 1353 99.1%
2019 95.50 11th 1360 99.2%
2021 97.40 11th 1317 99.2%
2022 97.19 4th 1345 99.7%
2023 93.93 49th 1342 96.3%
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Rank History for elementary school Special Education students at Upper School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools NJ State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 93.86 39th 1001 96.1%
2023 53.53 357th 958 62.7%
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Rank History for elementary school Female students at Upper School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools NJ State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 94.62 13th 1333 99.0%
2019 94.83 11th 1331 99.2%
2021 96.11 19th 1290 98.5%
2022 96.10 10th 1326 99.2%
2023 91.42 84th 1318 93.6%
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Rank History for elementary school Male students at Upper School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools NJ State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 95.02 27th 1334 98.0%
2019 94.23 25th 1335 98.1%
2021 96.84 10th 1297 99.2%
2022 96.57 11th 1324 99.2%
2023 93.76 46th 1315 96.5%
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Rank History for elementary school Asian students at Upper School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools NJ State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 82.28 33rd 370 91.1%
2019 81.05 35th 370 90.5%
2021 81.48 38th 339 88.8%
2022 87.04 16th 348 95.4%
2023 85.25 21st 346 93.9%
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Rank History for elementary school White students at Upper School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools NJ State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 82.52 110th 1022 89.2%
2019 84.67 97th 1023 90.5%
2021 74.60 183rd 964 81.0%
2022 80.94 149th 976 84.7%
2023 59.63 386th 975 60.4%
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Data source: test scores: New Jersey Department of Education, rankings: SchoolDigger.com

Rank History for Upper School

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Rank History for all middle school students at Upper School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools NJ State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2003 74.97 164th 574 71.4%
2004 83.58 73rd 588 87.6%
2005 82.44 81st 599 86.5%
2006 85.02 54th 615 91.2%
2007 77.90 132nd 631 79.1%
2008 85.87 31st 640 95.2%
2009 88.30 13th 664 98.0%
2010 89.38 9th 677 98.7%
2011 91.17 4th 684 99.4%
2012 89.11 15th 677 97.8%
2013 87.75 32nd 704 95.5%
2014 86.84 40th 717 94.4%
2015 87.32 44th 713 93.8%
2016 87.04 41st 713 94.2%
2017 82.22 100th 712 86.0%
2018 89.15 27th 716 96.2%
2019 88.75 35th 745 95.3%
2021 97.98 6th 652 99.1%
2022 96.42 9th 745 98.8%
2023 95.63 9th 748 98.8%
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Rank History for middle school Female students at Upper School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools NJ State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 91.20 26th 680 96.2%
2019 91.39 31st 703 95.6%
2021 97.56 6th 625 99.0%
2022 98.61 2nd 726 99.7%
2023 98.70 2nd 720 99.7%
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Rank History for middle school Male students at Upper School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools NJ State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 95.43 17th 675 97.5%
2019 97.03 12th 697 98.3%
2021 97.77 3rd 635 99.5%
2022 98.83 4th 730 99.5%
2023 98.36 4th 718 99.4%
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Rank History for middle school Asian students at Upper School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools NJ State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 83.89 9th 200 95.5%
2019 82.27 14th 199 93.0%
2021 80.00 21st 147 85.7%
2022 89.33 5th 200 97.5%
2023 91.40 2nd 201 99.0%
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Rank History for middle school White students at Upper School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools NJ State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 81.74 57th 497 88.5%
2019 87.85 32nd 504 93.7%
2021 94.28 11th 435 97.5%
2022 97.39 8th 512 98.4%
2023 93.34 13th 509 97.4%
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Data source: test scores: New Jersey Department of Education, rankings: SchoolDigger.com

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Enrollment information for Upper School

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Year White African American Asian Hispanic American Indian Pacific Islander Two or More Races Not Specified Total
1988 132 4 110 20 0 n/a n/a 0 266
1989 146 2 116 13 0 n/a n/a 0 277
1990 138 4 108 9 0 n/a n/a 0 259
1991 130 5 107 11 0 n/a n/a 0 253
1992 132 4 104 9 0 n/a n/a 0 249
1993 128 4 85 12 0 n/a n/a 0 229
1994 117 6 98 13 0 n/a n/a 0 234
1995 148 8 107 12 0 n/a n/a 0 275
1996 148 8 107 12 0 n/a n/a 0 275
1998 132 11 130 14 0 n/a n/a 0 287
1999 145 8 119 15 0 n/a n/a 0 287
2000 163 4 103 10 0 n/a n/a 0 280
2001 161 4 98 12 0 n/a n/a 0 275
2002 158 4 104 12 1 n/a n/a 0 279
2003 158 4 104 12 1 n/a n/a 0 279
2004 152 8 105 13 0 n/a n/a 0 278
2005 142 9 130 13 0 n/a n/a 0 294
2006 132 9 136 15 0 n/a n/a 0 292
2007 120 6 137 15 0 n/a n/a 0 278
2008 102 9 141 15 0 n/a n/a 0 267
2009 111 6 130 15 1 0 0 0 263
2010 110 6 128 19 0 0 0 0 263
2011 85 6 96 16 0 0 5 0 208
2012 78 2 89 22 0 0 4 0 195
2013 129 8 129 9 8 0 2 0 285
2014 130 11 147 16 7 1 2 0 314
2015 120 16 165 29 0 1 0 0 331
2016 121 13 175 24 0 0 1 0 334
2017 120 11 184 23 0 1 3 0 342
2018 116 10 180 18 0 1 4 0 329
2019 113 12 177 19 0 1 6 0 328
2020 108 8 178 14 0 1 9 0 318
2021 93 8 161 19 0 1 10 0 292
2022 74 6 140 22 0 2 12 0 256
2023 67 8 158 18 0 1 12 0 264

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education.

About Enrollment/Ethnicity

For more information about how the Department of Education defines ethnicity, see Defining Race and Ethnicity Data, National Center for Education Statistics

Students eligible for free or discounted lunch at Upper School

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Year # Students Full-time Teachers Student/Teacher ratio % Free/Discounted Lunch
1988 266 22.0 12.0 n/a
1989 277 25.0 11.0 n/a
1990 259 25.0 10.3 0.4
1991 253 25.0 10.1 0
1992 249 23.0 10.8 n/a
1993 229 22.5 10.2 0.4
1994 234 26.1 9.0 0.4
1995 275 26.9 10.2 1.1
1996 275 26.9 10.2 1.1
1998 287 28.3 10.1 3.1
1999 287 30.8 9.3 2.4
2000 280 29.0 9.7 0
2001 275 32.4 8.5 0
2002 279 30.1 9.3 0
2003 279 30.1 9.3 0
2004 278 31.1 8.9 n/a
2005 294 30.3 9.7 n/a
2006 292 33.4 8.7 0
2007 278 30.6 9.1 0
2008 267 22.0 12.1 0.7
2009 263 31.4 7.2 1.1
2010 263 25.0 10.5 1.5
2011 208 16.6 12.5 1.9
2012 195 27.7 7.0 1.5
2013 285 30.8 9.2 1.8
2014 314 43.7 7.1 1.6
2015 331 52.0 6.3 1.8
2016 334 35.0 9.5 0.9
2017 342 36.2 9.4 0
2018 329 38.0 8.6 0
2019 328 37.2 8.8 0
2020 318 38.8 8.1 0.9
2021 292 37.3 7.8 1
2022 256 32.7 7.8 1.2
2023 264 41.0 6.4 1.1

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education.

About Students eligible for discounted/free lunch:

The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) provides low-cost or free meals to students in U.S. public and nonprofit private schools based on household income. Those with incomes below 130% of the poverty line receive free lunch, while those between 130% and 185% qualify for reduced-price lunch. The percentage of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch serves as a marker for poverty, as it reflects the socioeconomic status of families in a given school or district. A higher FRPL rate typically indicates a higher concentration of low-income families, suggesting that the school or district may face additional challenges in providing adequate resources and support for student success.

Student/Teacher Ratio Upper School

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Year # Students Full-time Teachers Student/Teacher ratio % Free/Discounted Lunch
1988 266 22.0 12.0 n/a
1989 277 25.0 11.0 n/a
1990 259 25.0 10.3 0.4
1991 253 25.0 10.1 0
1992 249 23.0 10.8 n/a
1993 229 22.5 10.2 0.4
1994 234 26.1 9.0 0.4
1995 275 26.9 10.2 1.1
1996 275 26.9 10.2 1.1
1998 287 28.3 10.1 3.1
1999 287 30.8 9.3 2.4
2000 280 29.0 9.7 0
2001 275 32.4 8.5 0
2002 279 30.1 9.3 0
2003 279 30.1 9.3 0
2004 278 31.1 8.9 n/a
2005 294 30.3 9.7 n/a
2006 292 33.4 8.7 0
2007 278 30.6 9.1 0
2008 267 22.0 12.1 0.7
2009 263 31.4 7.2 1.1
2010 263 25.0 10.5 1.5
2011 208 16.6 12.5 1.9
2012 195 27.7 7.0 1.5
2013 285 30.8 9.2 1.8
2014 314 43.7 7.1 1.6
2015 331 52.0 6.3 1.8
2016 334 35.0 9.5 0.9
2017 342 36.2 9.4 0
2018 329 38.0 8.6 0
2019 328 37.2 8.8 0
2020 318 38.8 8.1 0.9
2021 292 37.3 7.8 1
2022 256 32.7 7.8 1.2
2023 264 41.0 6.4 1.1

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education.

About Student-Teacher Ratio

Student/teacher ratio is calculated by dividing the total number of students by the total number of full-time equivalent teachers. Please note that a smaller student/teacher ratio does not necessarily translate to smaller class size. In some instances, schools hire teachers part time, and some teachers are hired for specialized instruction with very small class sizes. These and other factors contribute to the student/teacher ratio. Note: For private schools, Student/teacher ratio may not include Pre-Kindergarten.
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Per Pupil Expenditures for Upper School

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YearExpenditures from Federal FundsExpenditures from State and Local FundsTotal Expenditures Per Pupil (All Funds)
2019 $216 (1.7%) $12,610 (98.3%) $12,826

Data source: New Jersey Department of Education
Pre and Post Pandemic Data

Impact of COVID-19 on Upper School

The coronavirus has had a profound impact on education in America. Learning shifted online overnight, attendance numbers dwindled, and enrollment decreased. SchoolDigger.com is making it easier for you to better assess how COVID-19 has impacted your school. Through the collection of pre-pandemic (2019) and current data, SchoolDigger.com is sharing test scores, enrollment numbers and school demographics from schools across the country – and we make it easy to see how impacted schools compare locally and statewide.

Rankings

Rank
Pre-pandemic (2018-2019)
Rank
Post pandemic (2022-2023)
Change (%)
Ranks 11th of 1360 Elementary schoolsRanks 49th of 1342 Elementary schools
 2.8%
Ranks 35th of 745 Middle schoolsRanks 9th of 748 Middle schools
 3.5%

Test Scores

% proficient
Pre-pandemic (2018-2019)
% proficient
Post pandemic (2022-2023)
Change (%)
3rd Grade English Language Arts (Upper School)93.686.7
 6.9%
   3rd Grade English Language Arts (Englewood Cliffs School District)93.686.7
 6.9%
   3rd Grade English Language Arts (New Jersey)50.242
 8.2%
3rd Grade Mathematics (Upper School)89.680.3
 9.3%
   3rd Grade Mathematics (Englewood Cliffs School District)89.680.3
 9.3%
   3rd Grade Mathematics (New Jersey)55.145.9
 9.2%
4th Grade English Language Arts (Upper School)85.996.5
 10.6%
   4th Grade English Language Arts (Englewood Cliffs School District)85.996.5
 10.6%
   4th Grade English Language Arts (New Jersey)57.451.3
 6.1%
4th Grade Mathematics (Upper School)84.596.8
 12.3%
   4th Grade Mathematics (Englewood Cliffs School District)84.596.8
 12.3%
   4th Grade Mathematics (New Jersey)5144.3
 6.7%
5th Grade English Language Arts (Upper School)93.179.2
 13.9%
   5th Grade English Language Arts (Englewood Cliffs School District)93.179.2
 13.9%
   5th Grade English Language Arts (New Jersey)57.953.2
 4.7%
5th Grade Mathematics (Upper School)84.864.8
 20%
   5th Grade Mathematics (Englewood Cliffs School District)84.864.8
 20%
   5th Grade Mathematics (New Jersey)46.840.1
 6.7%
6th Grade English Language Arts (Upper School)10092.1
 7.9%
   6th Grade English Language Arts (Englewood Cliffs School District)10092.1
 7.9%
   6th Grade English Language Arts (New Jersey)56.149
 7.1%
6th Grade Mathematics (Upper School)83.687.5
 3.9%
   6th Grade Mathematics (Englewood Cliffs School District)83.687.5
 3.9%
   6th Grade Mathematics (New Jersey)40.634.3
 6.3%
7th Grade English Language Arts (Upper School)93.995.3
 1.4%
   7th Grade English Language Arts (Englewood Cliffs School District)93.995.3
 1.4%
   7th Grade English Language Arts (New Jersey)62.855.7
 7.1%
7th Grade Mathematics (Upper School)71.290.4
 19.2%
   7th Grade Mathematics (Englewood Cliffs School District)71.290.4
 19.2%
   7th Grade Mathematics (New Jersey)42.133.8
 8.3%
8th Grade English Language Arts (Upper School)9897.5
 0.5%
   8th Grade English Language Arts (Englewood Cliffs School District)9897.5
 0.5%
   8th Grade English Language Arts (New Jersey)62.955.3
 7.6%
8th Grade Algebra I (Upper School)76.689.7
 13.1%
   8th Grade Algebra I (Englewood Cliffs School District)76.689.7
 13.1%
   8th Grade Algebra I (New Jersey)75.166
 9.1%
End of Course Algebra I (Upper School)76.689.7
 13.1%
   End of Course Algebra I (Englewood Cliffs School District)76.689.7
 13.1%
   End of Course Algebra I (New Jersey)43.335.1
 8.2%

Student Body

Number of students
Pre-pandemic (2018-2019)
Number of students
Post pandemic (2022-2023)
Change (%)
Total Students328264
 19.5%
African American128
 33.3%
American Indian00
Asian177158
 10.7%
Hispanic1918
 5.3%
Pacific Islander11
White11367
 40.7%
Two or More Races612
 100%
% Free/Discounted Lunch Recipients0%1.1%
 1.1%


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Yes! Upper School is one of the best middle schools in the state. It ranks 9th of 748 New Jersey middle schools.

Students at Upper School are 60% Asian, 25% White, 7% Hispanic, 5% Two or more races, 3% African American.

In the 2022-23 school year, 264 students attended Upper School.


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