Summary:
East Hanover Middle School is the only middle school in East Hanover Township School District; it serves grades 6–8 and has 325 students. There is no school-to-school comparison in this area, so the most useful benchmark is New Jersey’s result for the same grade and subject. In 2025–26, the school was above the state in every comparable ELA and math grade: its average advantage was 18 points in ELA and 28 points in math. The clearest overall finding is that the school outperformed state proficiency rates across all reported ELA and math grades.
Within the school, grade 8 ELA was the strongest result, with 77% proficient—24 points above the state’s 53%. Grade 8 math was the lowest school math result, at 56%, but it was still 34 points above the state’s 23%, the largest math advantage among the grades. Grade 7 had the highest math result, at 68%, compared with 38% statewide. Grade 8 science was also above the state: 34% proficient at the school versus 19% statewide, a 15-point advantage. Because this list includes just one school, these are grade-level strengths and weaknesses, not rankings among local schools.
Results fell year over year in every comparable ELA and math grade, even as the school remained ahead of the state. The school’s three-grade average dropped 12 points in ELA and 11 points in math from 2024–25 to 2025–26; science moved in the opposite direction, rising 2 points to 34%. SchoolDigger ranked the school 74th of 743 in 2025–26, at the 90th percentile, down from 43rd of 752 and the 94th percentile the year before. For 2024–25 context, the student–teacher ratio was 8.1, spending was $16,665 per student, and 3% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible. Chronic absenteeism was 8%, compared with 7% districtwide and 14% statewide. The school’s 2025–26 Algebra I results are suppressed, so the prior year’s 100% proficiency cannot show whether that performance continued.
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