Summary:
ZIP code 07024 has six schools in the Fort Lee School District: four elementary schools, Lewis F. Cole Middle School, and Fort Lee High School. The clearest school-to-school comparison is among the elementary schools, where all four were above state rates in the latest results, but School No. 1 led every comparable test.
School No. 1 is the elementary standout: its lead over the other three schools’ average was 13 points in grade 3 ELA, 10 in grade 4 ELA, 13 in grade 3 math, and 10 in grade 4 math. School No. 2 had the lowest grade 3 results—53% in ELA and 58% in math—though its grade 4 math score was 71%, second-highest among the four. School No. 3 had the lowest grade 4 math score at 58%. At the middle school, Lewis F. Cole was above state rates in ELA and science, but grade 8 math was 21%, compared with 23% statewide. Fort Lee High also had a mixed profile: grade 9 ELA was 15 points above the state, while Algebra I was 8 points below.
Elementary results declined overall: the average across four matched tests fell from 71% in 2024–2025 to 65% in 2025–2026, and the average advantage over state rates narrowed from 22 to 17 points. School No. 4 improved in three of four comparisons; its SchoolDigger ranking rose from the 67th to the 81st percentile. In the latest SchoolDigger rankings, School No. 1 was at the 89th percentile and Lewis F. Cole at the 87th. Contextual measures also vary: School No. 2 had the lowest chronic absenteeism, 9%, despite its low grade 3 scores, and the lowest student-teacher ratio, 9.4. In 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible students were 18% at School No. 1 and 20% at School No. 4; these figures provide context, not an explanation for test results.
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