The Lower Alloways Creek School District

The Lower Alloways Creek School District has one listed school, Lower Alloways Creek Elementary School, serving pre-K through grade 8, with results reported in ELA, math and science. Its strongest concern is math: in 2025–2026, results were below New Jersey’s in every reported grade from 3 through 7. Across those grades, the school averaged 20% proficient, compared with 44% statewide, a 24-point gap—the clearest and broadest current weakness.

Because the district has just one listed school, there are no local school-to-school leaders or laggards; the notable differences are across grades. Lower Alloways Creek Elementary School had some stronger upper-grade results: grade 8 ELA was 60%, 7 points above the state’s 53%, and grade 8 science was 30%, 11 points above the state’s 19%. Grade 6 ELA was also above the state, at 54% versus 51%. By contrast, grade 5 math was just 8%, 37 points below the state’s 46%. ELA was also low in grades 4 and 5, at 25% in each, with gaps of 21 and 27 points against the state. Across grades 3–8, the school’s ELA average was 44%, compared with 51% statewide.

Recent results show improvement relative to the state in ELA and science, but a widening math gap. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, the school’s equal-weight ELA average rose from 40% to 44%, while the state average fell from 54% to 51%; the school’s gap narrowed from 14 points to 7. In science, the school average rose from 19% to 23%, moving from 6 points below the state to about level. Math moved the other way: the school average fell from 32% to 20%, and its gap widened from 12 to 24 points. SchoolDigger ranked the school at the 24th percentile and gave it one star in 2025–2026, compared with the 21st percentile the prior year and the 38th percentile in 2023–2024. Context figures include an 8.9 student–teacher ratio in 2024–2025 and 33% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025; chronic absenteeism was 12%, compared with 14% statewide.