Byram Township School District

Byram Township School District has two schools serving PK–8: Byram Lakes Elementary School (PK–4) and Byram Intermediate School (grades 5–8), with 789 students combined. Their different grade spans mean the fairest comparisons are against state results for each grade. The strongest overall finding is that Byram Intermediate is above the state in every reported ELA and math grade in 2025–2026.

Byram Intermediate stands out most clearly: its ELA results are 10 to 19 points above state benchmarks, and its math results are 3 to 23 points above, with the largest math advantages in grades 7–8. Its eighth-grade science result is 9 points above the state, though fifth-grade science is 2 points below. The school also reports 100% proficiency in both Algebra I categories in both years; in 2025–2026, the state results were 40% and 75%. Test-group sizes are not provided, so the 100% result may reflect a small group and may not repeat. Byram Lakes is above the state in both ELA grades and fourth-grade math, while third-grade math is slightly below. SchoolDigger ranks Intermediate at the 82nd percentile (4 stars) and Lakes at the 56th percentile (3 stars) for 2025–2026.

Across grades 3–8, the average school-to-state advantage widened from 7 to 12 points in ELA and from 5 to 10 points in math between the two reported years, but scores did not rise in every grade. For example, Lakes’ grade 4 ELA fell 16 points, while its grade 3 ELA rose 17; Intermediate’s grade 6 ELA fell 13 points, while grade 5 math rose 22. SchoolDigger rankings have also edged up since 2023–2024: Lakes rose 7 percentile points and Intermediate 3. As additional context, in 2024–2025 the student–teacher ratios were 12.6 at Lakes and 10.1 at Intermediate, while the free/reduced lunch eligible shares were 12% and 9%, respectively; these figures describe the schools and do not explain their test results.