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Garfield Early Childhood Learning Center

Garfield · Bergen County · Early childhood center
Grades PK · was K in 2004
Page updated · data years vary by section

At a glance

What changed?

This page does not have enough comparable recent data to summarize more than one measure. Start with enrollment evidence →

Enrollment, by grade

In 2025-26 it enrolled 264 students in pre-K only. That is 48 fewer than in 2004-05 (312) — the school has shrunk. It peaked at 370 in 2007-08. Its biggest cohort is pre-K.

students 0100200300400PK1998200320082013201820232025

Students enrolled in each grade each fall, stacked to the total — so the top edge is total enrollment. Bands run from the lowest grade (light) to the highest (dark); a band that appears or disappears is a grade the school added or dropped. “Other” is students with no grade level (mostly special education), so the bands always sum to total. Source: NJDOE Fall Enrollment.

What the school looks like

The largest group in both 2004-05 and 2025-26 was White students — 49% then, 52% now.

% of students 050100race categories: 5 → 740%52%1998200320082013201820232025
WhiteBlackHispanicAsianTwo or moreNative Am.

Each group’s share of enrollment over time, or its head count — toggle above. New Jersey expanded race and ethnicity reporting from five to seven categories in 2006-07 (dashed line), so “two or more races” appears only after; Asian here includes Pacific Islander. Source: NJDOE Fall Enrollment.

How much the mix changed

Between 2021-22 and 2025-26 the makeup of this school shifted noticeably.

That’s the second-largest shift among the district’s three early-childhood centers. The district as a whole shifted just 1.1 over the same years, making this school an outlier. The biggest moves, in percentage points:
White +7·Hispanic −5.2·Black −1.3

The index is half the sum of every group’s change in share, on a 0–100 scale (how it works). It is computed from the same counts as the makeup chart above — source: NJDOE Fall Enrollment. Compare any two years in the explorer →

Free or reduced-price lunch

In 2025-26, 36% of students were certified for free or reduced-price lunch.

% certified 0408060.7%37.8%36%200420092014201920242025
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Share of students certified for free or reduced-price meals, through a household application or an automatic match. The lighter lines show the district overall and the district early-childhood centers, for comparison. Some districts serve free meals to every student under the Community Eligibility Provision. Those districts often stop collecting household income forms, so their reported share can run below the number of low-income students they enroll. Source: NJDOE Fall Enrollment.

NCES school lunch record

In 2024-25, NCES reported 98 students in its free/reduced-price lunch total and 204 in membership: 48.0% within that edition.

Universe break. In 2024-25, the NCES lunch file contains 2,461 New Jersey schools while the membership file contains 2,552; 91 membership schools have no lunch row. A percentage below exists only where both files report the same school-year.

YearLunch totalMembershipWithin-year shareSource
2014-1515632947.4%Wide Provisional
2015-1615728754.7%Wide Provisional
Source format changes here: wide school rows above; long category rows below.
2016-1714728252.1%Long Provisional
2017-1813429845.0%Long Provisional
2018-1910228236.2%Long Provisional
2019-2011428639.9%Long Provisional
2020-216917838.8%Long Provisional
2021-223520017.5%Long Provisional
2022-235220525.4%Long Provisional
2023-247722434.4%Long Final
2024-259820448.0%Long Final

Direct certification. NCES publishes no numeric direct-certification count for a New Jersey school in this release. The wide editions do not contain the field; the later New Jersey rows are not reported or suppressed. Those states are not zero.

This is the federal NCES Common Core of Data record, separate from the NJDOE Fall Enrollment chart above. NCES says the lunch counts are perturbed for disclosure protection, so a school count is not exact. Files through 2022–23 are publisher-marked provisional; the two newest editions are final. Source, row-state rules, and coverage: NCES CCD school lunch and membership.

Profile built from New Jersey Department of Education Fall Enrollment data, 1998-99 through 2025-26. How this data works → The NCES school lunch record is a separate federal source. How the NCES record works →