Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8
Christopher Columbus Middle School, Clifton, NJ
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 1,092
- Teachers (FTE)
- 120.0
- Students per teacher
- 9.1
- Grades
- 6 to 8
This school's ratio is 2.5 lower than the district figure of 11.6. The New Jersey average across schools is 11.7. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 350 Piaget Avenue, Clifton, NJ 07011
- Phone
- (973)470-2360
- District
- Clifton Public School District
- County
- Passaic County
- Level
- Middle
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Suburb: Large
- NCES school ID
- 340330004764
School meals
- Free lunch
- 684
- Reduced-price lunch
- 125
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 80974.1% of enrollment.
- Community Eligibility Provision
- No
Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.
Related schools
Other middle schools in Clifton Public School District
- Woodrow Wilson Middle School 1,255 students
Middle schools elsewhere in Clifton
- Classical Academy Charter School of Clifton Classical Academy Charter School of Clifton
We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.