Summary:
ZIP code 07047 has seven schools: six elementary schools serving through grade 6 and North Bergen High School. The elementary schools’ free/reduced lunch eligible rates averaged 72% in 2024–25. In 2025–26, their grades 3–6 averages were 36% in ELA and 28% in math, compared with state averages of 49% and 46%; grade 5 science averaged 17%, versus 27% statewide. The central finding is that elementary results generally trail the state, but John F. Kennedy Elementary stands apart, with a math average above the state.
Kennedy was the strongest overall: its grades 3–6 averages were 43% in ELA and 47% in math, with math about 2 points above the state average. It also led the group in grade 5 science at 37%, about 10 points above the state. Lincoln Elementary led grade 4 ELA and math, with 43% and 42%, while McKinley Elementary had the highest grade 3 ELA result, 35%—still below the state’s 48%. At the lower end, Franklin Elementary averaged 19% in math, and its grade 6 math result was 6%, compared with 40% statewide. Robert Fulton Elementary had the lowest ELA average, at 29%.
Results changed unevenly from 2024–25 to 2025–26: Kennedy improved by 8 points in ELA and 12 in math, while most other schools’ math averages fell. Across the six schools, the math average dropped 2 points as the state average rose by less than 1, widening the gap by about 3 points. Kennedy and Franklin had similar free/reduced lunch eligible rates in 2024–25—77.1% and 76.8%—but their math averages were 47% and 19%; these are contextual differences, not an explanation for results. At the high school, every reported 2025–26 result was below the state, though Geometry grade 9 rose by 21 points to 41% and Algebra I end-of-course proficiency increased by 7 points to 15%.
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