Summary:
Hope, New Jersey, has one listed school: Hope Township School, serving prekindergarten through grade 5, with 124 students. With no other local school to compare, the most important finding is that the school’s current results are stronger in English language arts (ELA) than in math: it is above New Jersey’s average in both reported ELA grades and below it in both reported math grades.
The school stands out most in ELA: in 2025–2026, grade 3 proficiency was 64% versus 48% statewide, 16 percentage points higher, and grade 4 was 56% versus 46%, 9 points higher. Across those grades, the ELA average was 60% compared with 47% statewide, or 13 points higher. Math was below the state in both grades: grade 3 was 46% versus 49%, and grade 4 was 45% versus 47%; the two-grade averages were 45% for the school and 48% statewide. Earlier results also show a standout in grade 7 in 2024–2025: 69% in ELA versus 57% statewide and 69% in math versus 39%. Hope has only one listed school, so there is no local top-to-bottom comparison; grade 5 results are suppressed for 2025–2026, and the 2024–2025 grade 6 and 7 results do not match the school’s listed PK–5 span.
ELA improved substantially relative to the state from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026 in both comparable grades: the school-state gap shifted from 17 points below to 16 points above in grade 3, and from 26 points below to 9 points above in grade 4. Math had mixed movement: grade 3 shifted from 6 points above the state to 4 below, while grade 4 narrowed its gap from 10 points below to 2 below. SchoolDigger gives the school two stars and ranks it 307th of 607 in its district ranking; its statewide school percentile rose from 37 in 2024–2025 to 56 in 2025–2026, after being 49 in 2023–2024. In 2024–2025, the student–teacher ratio was 8.1:1, 10% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible, and chronic absenteeism was 11%, compared with 14% statewide.
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