Essex_Fells_School_District
Essex Fells School District
School district in Essex County, New Jersey, US
The Essex Fells School District is a community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through sixth grade from Essex Fells, in Essex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.[3][4][5]
As of the 2022–23 school year, the district, comprised of one school, had an enrollment of 247 students and 23.7 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.4:1.[1]
The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "J," the 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.[6]
Students in public school for seventh through twelfth grades attend the West Essex Regional School District, a regional school district serving students from Essex Fells, Fairfield, North Caldwell and Roseland.[7][8][9] Schools in the district (with 2018–19 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[10]) are West Essex Middle School[11] with 564 students in grades 7-8 and West Essex High School[12] with 1,123 students in grades 9-12.[13]