Summary:
The Haledon Public School District in New Jersey is home to a single elementary school, Haledon Public School, which serves students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. The school has consistently ranked in the bottom half of New Jersey elementary schools and struggles to meet state proficiency standards in core academic subjects like English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science.
Haledon Public School's performance on standardized tests is significantly below the state average across all grade levels. For example, in the 2024-2025 school year, the percentage of students proficient or better in English Language Arts ranged from 28.6% (3rd grade) to 44.2% (4th grade), compared to the state average of 44.9% to 57.1%. In Mathematics, the proficiency rates at the school ranged from 21.6% (5th grade) to 31% (4th grade), much lower than the state averages of 39.8% to 49.8%. The school's Science proficiency rates were also low, with only 14.6% of 5th graders and 3.3% of 8th graders scoring proficient or better, compared to the state averages of 30.1% and 19%, respectively.
Despite the school's low academic performance, it has a relatively low student-teacher ratio of 10.6 to 1 and a per-student spending of $12,560 for the 2018-2019 school year, which is relatively high. However, these factors alone do not appear to be enough to overcome the school's challenges in providing a high-quality education to its students, which may be influenced by the high percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch at 67.26% in the 2023-2024 school year.
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