Anna L. Klein, Guttenberg NJ - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Anna L. Klein

Anna L. Klein is the single public school serving Guttenberg, a town packed onto a sliver of land along the Hudson Palisades. The school runs from pre-kindergarten through eighth grade, meaning every Guttenberg family with a child in that age range is zoned here. For high school, students attend North Bergen High School in the neighboring town through a sending-receiving arrangement. The school building sits within the town’s dense grid, not on a separate campus, and the entire community functions as a walkable, mixed-use corridor centered on Bergenline Avenue.

The student body is large for a single PK-08 school, reflecting the town’s extreme density. Enrollment tilts heavily Hispanic, and a substantial share of students come from households where income qualifies them for free or reduced-price meals. Guttenberg itself is a town of row houses, small stores, and the three Galaxy Towers high-rises that house a notable portion of the population. Housing costs in the area are high—home values and rents run well above national medians—so the school serves a relatively low-income population in an expensive real estate market, which is a dynamic families moving here will want to weigh.

Academically, the most telling pattern is a split between subjects. In English language arts, proficiency rates climb as students get older, reaching a strong majority of students meeting the bar in seventh and eighth grade. That is a genuine bright spot and suggests that the school’s approach to literacy and reading comprehension takes hold in the upper grades. In math, the picture is softer. Across every tested grade, fewer than half of students reach proficiency, and the rates fall further in the middle school years, with eighth grade showing a particularly weak result. Science results for grades five and eight also fall at a low level—a fraction of students meet the state’s standard. A parent looking at these numbers will want to ask the school directly how they support students who are below grade level in math and science, and whether the rising ELA trend reflects a school-wide strength or a cohort effect.

The overall proficiency index, which averages performance across all tested subjects and grades, places Anna L. Klein below the midpoint relative to other districts in Hudson County. That comparison matters because Hudson County includes a wide range of communities, from affluent suburbs to dense urban districts. The school is not at the bottom of that range, but it sits in the lower half. Test results for early elementary grades were available only for third grade and up, which is standard for New Jersey’s state assessment program; younger students are not tested at this level.

Because the school serves only through eighth grade, there is no graduation rate to report, and the data set does not include chronic absenteeism figures or detailed information on discipline, staff credentials, or program offerings. The absence of those measures does not give a read on quality one way or the other—they simply were not part of the available public reporting. What is clear is that Anna L. Klein is a neighborhood school in a tight-knit, high-density town where nearly every child walks to class, the upper-grade ELA instruction is a notable strength, and math and science achievement are areas a prospective family would want to explore further with the administration.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 341%

School 41% · District 41%

▼ 9 pts below state median · even with county median

Grade 431%

School 31% · District 31%

▼ 15 pts below state median · ▼ 8 pts below county median

Grade 533%

School 33% · District 33%

▼ 9 pts below state median · ▼ 1 pts below county median

Grade 622%

School 22% · District 22%

▼ 12 pts below state median · ▼ 5 pts below county median

Grade 728%

School 28% · District 28%

▼ 6 pts below state median · even with county median

Grade 820%

School 20% · District 20%

▲ 3 pts above state median · ▲ 6 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 334%

School 34% · District 34%

▼ 12 pts below state median · ▼ 4 pts below county median

Grade 440%

School 40% · District 40%

▼ 15 pts below state median · ▼ 9 pts below county median

Grade 533%

School 33% · District 33%

▼ 21 pts below state median · ▼ 16 pts below county median

Grade 655%

School 55% · District 55%

▲ 1 pts above state median · ▲ 4 pts above county median

Grade 759%

School 59% · District 59%

▲ 2 pts above state median · ▲ 5 pts above county median

Grade 863%

School 63% · District 63%

▲ 5 pts above state median · ▲ 8 pts above county median

Science

Grade 515%

School 15% · District 15%

▼ 12 pts below state median · ▼ 6 pts below county median

Grade 810%

School 10% · District 10%

▼ 3 pts below state median · ▼ 1 pts below county median

This schoolGuttenberg School District, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 3Lower-income32%Higher-income43%11 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income39%Higher-income46%8 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income27%Higher-income57%30 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income56%Higher-income46%10 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income58%Higher-income67%9 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income59%Higher-income78%19 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income40%Higher-income50%11 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income29%Higher-income40%11 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income28%Higher-income57%29 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income19%Higher-income39%19 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income28%Higher-income31%4 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income19%Higher-income26%8 pp gap