Summary:
Mount Holly Township Public School District has three schools serving 1,082 students from pre-K through grade 8: John Brainerd Elementary School (pre-K–1), Gertrude C. Folwell Elementary School (grades 2–4), and F. W. Holbein Middle School (grades 5–8). The clearest achievement bright spot is Holbein’s grade 8 Algebra I result: 79%, compared with 75% statewide. The overall picture is mixed, however, with Folwell’s mathematics results notably below state levels.
Holbein stands out in Algebra I and regular mathematics: its grade 7 math result was 38.6% versus 38.1% statewide, and grade 8 was 24% versus 23%; Algebra I was 4 percentage points above the state. By contrast, Folwell was below the state in both tested grades and subjects, with math at 32% versus 49% in grade 3 and 30% versus 47% in grade 4. Its ELA results were also about 10 points below state levels in both grades. Brainerd has no supplied test scores. Because Holbein and Folwell’s tested grades do not overlap, these figures cannot show which school performs better in the same grade.
Average school-to-state gaps narrowed from 2024–25 to 2025–26 in ELA (from 18 points below to 12), regular math (11 below to 7), and science (16 below to 11). Improvements were not universal: Folwell’s ELA gaps narrowed, but its math results fell by about 9 points in each grade. SchoolDigger gives Holbein 2 stars and the 40th percentile in 2025–26, up 8 percentile points from 2023–24; Folwell has 1 star and is at the 27th percentile, little changed from 23. In 2024–25, student-teacher ratios were 10.4 at both schools and 9.5 at Brainerd. Free/reduced lunch eligible shares that year were 61% at Holbein, 58% at Folwell, and 43% at Brainerd—useful context, not an explanation of results.
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