Elmwood Park Public Schools is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in Kindergarten through twelfth grade from Elmwood Park, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.
As of the 2010-11 school year, the district's five schools had an enrollment of 2,442 students and 158.7 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 15.39:1.
The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "CD", the sixth highest of eight groupings. District Factor Groups organize districts statewide to allow comparison by common socioeconomic characteristics of the local districts. From lowest socioeconomic status to highest, the categories are A, B, CD, DE, FG, GH, I and J.
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