Best Public Schools in Frenchtown, NJ

Frenchtown has three schools: Delaware Valley Regional High School serves grades 9–12, while Kingwood Township School and Frenchtown Elementary serve PK–8. The high school has no other listed high school for a direct local comparison, so the clearest school-to-school picture comes from the elementary schools’ results in the same grade and year. Overall, the latest shared-grade results favor English language arts: the average gap to the state was 18 points above state results in ELA, compared with 3 points below in math, with grade 4 math a weakness at both schools.

Kingwood Township School stands out for strong ELA results across grades and high Algebra I scores: in 2025–2026, grade 8 ELA was 85% versus 53% statewide, and grade 4 was 74% versus 46%; Algebra I end-of-course results were 95% versus 40%. Frenchtown Elementary had the stronger grade 6 results, with 81% in ELA and 50% in math, about 30 and 10 points above state results. Its grade 4 results were weaker: 43% in ELA and 29% in math, with grade 4 math 18 points below state. Delaware Valley Regional High School was above state results in several areas, including grade 9 ELA (65% versus 51%) and Geometry (65% versus 50%), but end-of-course Algebra I was 21% versus 40% statewide.

Results have shifted by grade and subject rather than improving uniformly. At Kingwood Township School, grade 8 math rose from 4% in 2024–2025 to 35% in 2025–2026, while grade 3 math fell by 24 points. At Delaware Valley Regional High School, grade 9 ELA rose by 11 points, but end-of-course Algebra I remained well below the state. SchoolDigger gives all three schools three stars; its latest statewide percentiles are 72 for the high school, 60 for Kingwood and 57 for Frenchtown Elementary. In 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible measures were 13% at the high school, 11% at Kingwood and 26% at Frenchtown Elementary; student–teacher ratios were 12, 8.7 and 6.5, respectively. These figures offer context, not an explanation for results.