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Winston S. Churchill School is an elementary school located in Fairfield, New Jersey, serving grades 3-6 with a total enrollment of 384 students. The school is part of the Fairfield Public School District, which is ranked 183 out of 615 districts in New Jersey and has a 4-star rating from SchoolDigger.
Winston S. Churchill School stands out as a high-performing school, particularly in terms of test scores. The school consistently outperforms the state average in both English Language Arts and Mathematics across all grade levels. For example, in 2022-2023, the school's 5th-grade ELA proficiency rate was 75%, compared to the state average of 53.2%. Additionally, the school's 5th-grade Mathematics proficiency rate was 57.2%, compared to the state average of 40.1% and the surrounding school district averages ranging from 40.1% to 72.4%. The school's performance is particularly strong for its Hispanic and male student subgroups, which rank 182 and 315 out of 982 and 1,315 New Jersey elementary schools, respectively, in the 2022-2023 school year.
While Winston S. Churchill School has a higher percentage of white students (77.34%) compared to the surrounding schools, which range from 46.77% to 82.2% white students, the school still maintains a diverse student population, with 15.1% Hispanic and 5.99% Asian students in the 2022-2023 school year. The school's spending per student for the 2018-2019 school year was $10,351, which is higher than the Adlai E. Stevenson School ($8,326) but lower than the other nearby schools, which range from $12,408 to $17,550 per student. The school has seen a fluctuation in chronic absenteeism rates, ranging from 2.7% in 2020-2021 to 11.0% in 2021-2022, which is an area the school may want to monitor and address.
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