Summary:
Port Elizabeth, New Jersey, has one listed school, Maurice River Township School, an elementary school serving prekindergarten through grade 8 with 369 students. With no other listed schools, there is no meaningful school-to-school ranking; the useful comparison is with New Jersey and across grades. The main takeaway is that the school’s overall ELA and math results were below state averages, but performance varied sharply by grade, so averages alone hide important differences.
Maurice River Township School is both the area’s highest- and lowest-ranked school by default, not because it has been compared with nearby schools. Its strongest results included grade 5 math, where 64% were proficient versus 46% statewide, and grade 8 Algebra I, at 88% versus 75%. Its weakest were grade 8 general math, at 8% versus 23% statewide, and grade 4 ELA, at 22% versus 46%. Across grades 3–8, its average was 44% in ELA and 31% in math, respectively 8 and 9 percentage points below state averages. The grade-to-grade spread was especially wide in math: 55 percentage points from grade 5 to grade 8.
Recent results show a mixed picture rather than a uniform decline. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, the combined ELA-and-math gap widened by about 1 percentage point, mainly because the math gap widened by about 3 points; ELA’s gap narrowed by about 1 point. Science improved relative to the state by about 4 points, and grade 8 science rose from 18% to 25%, moving from below to above the state’s 19%. SchoolDigger’s school ranking moved from 810 of 1,338 to 861 of 1,331 over three years, with its percentile falling from 39th to 35th. As context, the school’s 2024–2025 student–teacher ratio was 9.9:1, 44% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible, and chronic absenteeism was 17%, matching the district and exceeding the state’s 14%. These figures describe the school but do not explain its test results.
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