Livingston Board of Education School District

The Livingston Board of Education School District has nine schools—six elementary schools, two middle schools and one high school—serving students from elementary through high school. In 2025–2026, the elementary schools averaged 82% in ELA, 81% in mathematics and 65% in grade 5 science, compared with state averages of 49%, 47% and 27%; the clearest big-picture finding is that results are well above state averages, though school-to-school differences—especially in science—are substantial.

Hillside Elementary School stands out overall, leading the elementary schools with averages of 89% in ELA and 87% in math—6 and 6 percentage points above the school-group averages—and scoring 76% in grade 5 science. Harrison Elementary School leads grade 5 ELA and science, at 88% and 81%. At the lower end, Riker Hill Elementary School has the lowest ELA average, 78%, while Collins Elementary School has the lowest math average, 76%, and science result, 48%. Even so, all six elementary schools exceed the state average in the reported subject comparisons.

Recent changes are mixed: the elementary ELA average fell 1 percentage point, math was essentially flat, and science slipped slightly, while science fell more at the state level. Individual schools diverged: science rose 13 points at Hillside and 8 at Harrison, but fell 14 at Collins. SchoolDigger ranks Hillside 11th of 1,331 New Jersey elementary schools in 2025–2026; its rank improved from 45th in 2023–2024. As context, all six elementary schools report free/reduced lunch eligible figures for 2024–2025, ranging from about 1% at Collins to 4% at Riker Hill. These comparisons describe different grades and tests, so they do not establish a single fair ranking of all nine schools.