New Milford Public School District

New Milford Public School District serves 1,998 students across four schools: two elementary schools, one middle school, and one high school. The strongest school-to-school pattern is at the elementary level: Bertrand F. Gibbs Elementary School leads Berkley Street School in all seven listed 2025–2026 grade-and-subject comparisons, by 9 to 20 points.

Gibbs stands out at the top among the elementary schools, while Berkley is lower in each matched comparison; still, Berkley is above the state in six of seven results. Its exception is fifth-grade math: 43%, compared with 46% statewide. David E. Owens Middle School is above the state in all eight of its listed results, but the advantage ranges from essentially even in sixth-grade math to 16 points in eighth-grade Algebra I. New Milford High School has a more mixed profile: Geometry is 35 to 37 points above state results, and NJGPA ELA and math are 9 and 11 points above, while end-of-course Algebra I is 19 points below and eleventh-grade science is 7 points below.

Results remain above state rates on average, but the margin narrowed: across the same listed results, the average school–state gap fell from 14 points in 2024–2025 to 9 points in 2025–2026. Berkley’s average margin fell from 13 to 4 points; its fourth-grade ELA score also dropped from 81% to 52%. SchoolDigger’s latest statewide percentiles are 77th for Gibbs, 71st for Owens, 61st for the high school, and 56th for Berkley; these are rankings, not test-score percentages. Student-teacher ratios range from 12.5 to 13.4. In 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible shares ranged from 21% to 27% across the schools; these figures provide context, not an explanation for results.