Summary:
Edgewater Park Township School District has two schools: Mildred Magowan Elementary School, serving pre-K–4, and Samuel M Ridgway Middle School, serving grades 5–8. The schools’ strongest results are concentrated in particular grades rather than consistent across each school. Across the grades tested in 2025–26, average results were about 16 percentage points below state averages in both ELA and math, making that the broadest academic concern.
Magowan’s fourth-grade math result and Ridgway’s eighth-grade math result stood out above state comparisons: 51% versus 47% at Magowan, a 4-point advantage, and 30% versus 23% at Ridgway, a 7-point advantage. Ridgway’s eighth-grade math was the strongest state-relative result among the listed ELA and math grades. Its sixth-grade results were the weakest: math was 9% versus 40% statewide, 31 points lower, and ELA was 26% versus 51%, 25 points lower. Ridgway’s eighth-grade ELA was closer to the state result, at 51% versus 53%.
Results changed unevenly over time. The average math gap narrowed by about 2 points, from 18 points below state in 2024–25 to 16 points below in 2025–26, driven partly by Ridgway eighth-grade math rising 28 points; grades 5 and 7 math fell 12 and 13 points. The average ELA gap widened slightly. Ridgway’s Algebra I end-of-course result also rose 33 points, from 36% to 70%, moving from 2 points below state to 30 points above. SchoolDigger percentiles rose overall but fluctuated: Magowan went from 33 to 36 to 35, and Ridgway from 24 to 18 to 29. In 2024–25, free/reduced lunch eligible shares were about 68% at both schools; student-teacher ratios were 10.3 at Magowan and 11.3 at Ridgway. Chronic absenteeism was 15% at Magowan and 9% at Ridgway, compared with 14% statewide; these figures offer context, not an explanation for achievement.
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