Summary:
The Farmingdale Elementary is the only listed school in the Farmingdale Public School District, serving prekindergarten through grade 8 and enrolling 160 students, so there is no school-to-school comparison. In 2025–26, the school’s average ELA results across grades 3–8 were 65%, compared with 51% statewide; its science average across grades 5 and 8 was 40%, compared with 23% statewide. Math was essentially at the state level: 39.6% at the school versus 40.4% statewide, about 1 percentage point lower. The clearest overall takeaway is stronger average results in ELA and science, alongside substantial differences by grade.
The strongest individual result was seventh-grade ELA: 86%, 30 percentage points above the state’s 56%. Both reported science grades also exceeded state results, by 19 points in grade 5 and 14 points in grade 8. The clearest low point was eighth-grade math, at 8% versus 23% statewide, a 15-point gap below the state. Results exceeded state levels in four of six ELA grades, only one of six math grades, and both reported science grades, so the overall averages do not describe every grade equally well.
Results improved overall from the prior year in matched-grade comparisons, but not across the board. The ELA average rose from 49% in 2024–25 to 65% in 2025–26, a 17-point increase; the math average for grades 3–7 rose from 33% to 46%, up 13 points. However, eighth-grade ELA fell by 20 points and fifth-grade math by 12 points. SchoolDigger lists the school at the 65th percentile in 2025–26, up from the 37th percentile in 2024–25 and 46th in 2023–24. In 2024–25, chronic absenteeism was 20%, 6 points above the state’s 14%; the student–teacher ratio was 7.1. The school reported 18% free/reduced lunch eligible students in 2024–25, which provides context but does not explain assessment results.
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