Roosevelt School, River Edge NJ - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Roosevelt School

Roosevelt School serves kindergarten through sixth grade in River Edge, a small residential borough in Bergen County. The school is part of the River Edge School District, which handles elementary grades, while the River Dell Regional School District, shared with neighboring Oradell, takes over for seventh through twelfth grade.

River Edge is a compact borough, under two square miles, described as walkable but without a traditional downtown. Residential streets with varied housing stock define the character, and commercial activity is concentrated along Kinderkamack Road and Route 4. The borough has parks, a bird sanctuary, and an arboretum, with Van Saun County Park as a major recreation draw. Two NJ Transit rail stations on the Pascack Valley Line provide commuter access to Hoboken and connections to Manhattan. The housing market is expensive, with home values significantly above national and state benchmarks. The borough is largely built out, with modest population changes in recent years.

The school itself enrolls students from a primarily white and Asian student body, with a smaller Hispanic population and very small numbers of Black and multiracial students. Free or reduced-price lunch data is not available. Information on students with disabilities and English learners was also absent from the data.

Academic performance on the New Jersey Student Learning Assessment is a central strength. Across tested grades, proficiency rates in both math and English language arts consistently exceeded what a parent might expect from a typical New Jersey school, with many grade-level results landing well above the county median for districts. In math, all tested grades showed a majority of students scoring proficient or above. English language arts results were similarly strong, with the highest grade in the building posting a particularly high proficiency rate. Fifth-grade science, the only science assessment administered in this grade band, also showed a majority of students meeting the state's proficiency standard. When looking at overall academic performance across all tested subjects and grades, the school ranks among the top quarter of districts in Bergen County, a large and generally high-performing county.

Because Roosevelt School serves only elementary and middle grades, there is no graduation rate to report, and chronic absenteeism data was not available in the materials provided. The school operates as a regular public school and is not a charter or magnet institution. Title I status was not listed in the data, leaving it unclear whether the school receives federal funding for serving a high concentration of low-income students.

The district brief turned up no recent major changes or initiatives of lasting impact to report.

For a family considering River Edge, Roosevelt School offers a strong academic foundation in an affluent, commuter-oriented community with high housing costs. The school's test performance positions it well among its county peers. The lack of data on student poverty, special education, and English learner populations is a gap a parent may want to explore directly with the school to get a fuller picture of student support and diversity of need. The absence of a proper downtown means daily errands and community gathering places are limited, though the school and parks serve as anchors for family life. The partnership with the River Dell Regional district for middle and high school means the elementary years are only part of the story, and families likely will want to understand the secondary options that follow.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 373%

School 73% · District 72% · ▲ 1 pts above district

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

Grade 485%

School 85% · District 81% · ▲ 4 pts above district

▲ 39 pts above state median · ▲ 19 pts above county median

Grade 572%

School 72% · District 77% · ▼ 5 pts below district

▲ 29 pts above state median · ▲ 9 pts above county median

Grade 677%

School 77% · District 77%

▲ 43 pts above state median · ▲ 17 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 368%

School 68% · District 67% · ▲ 1 pts above district

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

Grade 486%

School 86% · District 81% · ▲ 5 pts above district

▲ 31 pts above state median · ▲ 13 pts above county median

Grade 586%

School 86% · District 83% · ▲ 3 pts above district

▲ 32 pts above state median · ▲ 14 pts above county median

Grade 694%

School 94% · District 92% · ▲ 2 pts above district

▲ 40 pts above state median · ▲ 17 pts above county median

Science

Grade 560%

School 60% · District 59% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▲ 33 pts above state median · ▲ 18 pts above county median

This schoolRiver Edge 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.