Salome H. Long Memorial School, Saddle Brook NJ

Original Research by School Decision on Salome H. Long Memorial School

Salome H. Long Memorial School serves students from kindergarten through sixth grade in Saddle Brook, a suburban township in Bergen County. The school is one of three elementary schools in the Saddle Brook School District, which also includes a combined middle and high school building. The district has a distributed campus pattern with no downtown core; schools sit on separate properties within the township’s residential neighborhoods.

The student body is predominantly white, with a sizable Hispanic population and a smaller Asian cohort. The share of students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch is modest relative to many districts. This is a neighborhood school for an established suburban community where the housing stock is largely single-family homes and highway commercial corridors shape daily life.

On the New Jersey Student Learning Assessments, proficiency rates across the grades show a consistent pattern. In mathematics, the share of students scoring at proficient or above starts close to the middle of the range in third grade and rises through sixth grade, where it lands at a level that would be considered solid for a Bergen County elementary school. English language arts proficiency is more variable. Third and fourth grade results are softer, with a lower share meeting the bar. Fifth and sixth grade ELA results are stronger and sit at a more competitive level. Science assessment data is available only for fifth grade, where the proficiency rate is lower than the school’s math and ELA outcomes in that grade. A parent considering this school may want to ask how the school supports literacy development in the early elementary years, especially given the dip in fourth grade ELA.

The overall proficiency index places the school just above the midpoint among Bergen County elementary schools. That is a useful benchmark: the school is performing in the broad middle of a county that includes many high-performing districts. It is not at the top of the county, but it is clearly within the band of solid academic performance.

No chronic absenteeism data or discipline data was available for this school. The graduation rate is not applicable because the school only serves through sixth grade. The school is not a charter or magnet and does not report Title I status. Special education and English learner counts were missing from the data provided. A parent with a child who may need those services should follow up directly with the school or district to understand what is available.

Saddle Brook is a car-dependent community with limited walkability. The town has seen modest population growth over the past few decades and is essentially built out. Housing values in the area are high, reflecting the broader Bergen County market. The district brief turned up no recent major changes like curriculum overhauls, construction projects, or budget referendums that would affect a new family’s decision.

For a family looking at this school, the picture is straightforward. Salome H. Long Memorial School serves a relatively stable suburban population and delivers math proficiency that strengthens by the time students reach sixth grade. ELA performance has a softer patch in third and fourth grade but recovers in the upper grades. The school sits in the middle tier of a competitive county. A parent who values strong middle-of-the-pack academics in a traditional suburban elementary setting will find this a reasonable fit. A parent whose priority is early literacy intervention or a more academically intensive profile may want to look more closely at how the school addresses those early ELA results.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 366%

School 66% · District 54% · ▲ 12 pts above district

▲ 16 pts above state median · ▼ 2 pts below county median

Grade 463%

School 63% · District 53% · ▲ 11 pts above district

▲ 18 pts above state median · ▼ 2 pts below county median

Grade 562%

School 62% · District 47% · ▲ 15 pts above district

▲ 19 pts above state median · ▼ 1 pts below county median

Grade 672%

School 72% · District 54% · ▲ 19 pts above district

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

English language arts

Grade 359%

School 59% · District 47% · ▲ 13 pts above district

▲ 14 pts above state median · ▼ 4 pts below county median

Grade 455%

School 55% · District 48% · ▲ 7 pts above district

even with state median · ▼ 18 pts below county median

Grade 568%

School 68% · District 51% · ▲ 17 pts above district

▲ 14 pts above state median · ▼ 5 pts below county median

Grade 668%

School 68% · District 64% · ▲ 4 pts above district

▲ 14 pts above state median · ▼ 9 pts below county median

Science

Grade 549%

School 49% · District 38% · ▲ 11 pts above district

▲ 21 pts above state median · ▲ 7 pts above county median

This schoolSaddle Brook 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-income46%Higher-income64%18 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income46%Higher-income58%12 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income80%Higher-income65%15 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income73%Higher-income64%9 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income64%Higher-income63%0 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income70%Higher-income73%3 pp gap