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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / Primary

Cliffwood Elementary School

Cliffwood, New Jersey

NCES ID
340975003968
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Cliffwood Elementary School is a public primary school in Cliffwood, New Jersey, run by Matawan-Aberdeen Regional School District. It enrols 360 students — the 56986th largest of 2,585 public schools in New Jersey.

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Reported figures, 2022–2023

The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.

Enrollment

360students

56986th nationally, tied with 153

Teachers

32.0FTE

37744th nationally, tied with 1,958

Students per teacher

11.3students

15700th nationally, tied with 633

Free or reduced-price lunch

38.3%percent

62160th nationally, tied with 96

How these figures are defined

Enrollment

Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.

Teachers

Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.

Students per teacher

Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.

Free or reduced-price lunch

Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.

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Within Matawan-Aberdeen Regional School District

Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Matawan Regional High School1,146 students
  2. 2Matawan-Aberdeen Middle School847 students
  3. 3Lloyd Road Elementary School532 students
  4. 4Strathmore Elementary School510 students
  5. 5Ravine Drive Elementary School373 students
  6. 6Cliffwood Elementary School360 students
  7. 7Cambridge Park Elementary School134 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: New Jersey median across 2,585 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment−22.7%
  • Teachers−15.8%
  • Students per teacher0.0%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+39.8%
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Sources & licence

Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.

Provenance

National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data — school and district directory
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.