Summary:
New Hanover Township has one listed school, New Hanover Township School, serving prekindergarten through grade 8, with 185 students. In 2025–2026, its average results across tested grades were 35% in English Language Arts (ELA), 21% in mathematics, and 16% in science, compared with state averages of 51%, 40%, and 23%, respectively. Most importantly, ELA and mathematics results were below state results in every reported grade.
There is no second local school to rank against it, but results varied notably by grade. ELA was strongest in grade 4, at 45%—1 point below the state—and weakest in grade 3, at 26%, or 22 points below. Mathematics peaked in grade 5 at 35%, 11 points below the state, and was lowest in grade 8 at 6%, 17 points below. Science was the school’s strongest subject relative to the state: grade 5 reached 28%, just above the state’s 27%, while grade 8 was 5%, 15 points below. The spread between the highest and lowest grades was 29 points in mathematics, 23 in science, and 19 in ELA.
Over the two years, science moved closer to state results: the school average rose from 10% to 16%, while its gap with the state narrowed from 15 points to 7. ELA’s average fell from 38% to 35%, but its gap remained about 16 points; mathematics fell from 21% to 21% (down 1 point before rounding), and its gap widened from 19 to 20 points. SchoolDigger ranked the school 959 of 1,331 schools, in the 28th percentile, in 2025–2026; its earlier rankings were in the 28th percentile in 2023–2024 and the 24th in 2024–2025. SchoolDigger gives the district one star and ranks it 528 of 607, in the 13th percentile. Context figures for 2024–2025 include a student-teacher ratio of 9.0, 52% free/reduced lunch eligible, and chronic absenteeism of 21%, compared with 14% statewide and 21% in the district. With only one listed school, these figures cannot show differences among local schools.
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