Old Tappan Public School District

Old Tappan Public School District has two schools serving prekindergarten through grade 8: T. Baldwin Demarest Elementary School serves prekindergarten–grade 4, and Charles DeWolf Middle School serves grades 5–8. The clearest shared strength is that both schools exceeded state proficiency results in every reported 2025–2026 ELA and mathematics grade, with the smallest grade-level advantage rounding to 22 points.

Charles DeWolf had the largest average advantages over the state: 27 points in ELA and 33 in mathematics across grades 5–8. Baldwin was also consistently strong, averaging 25 points above the state in ELA and 24 points above in mathematics across grades 3–4. The clearest low point within these results was DeWolf grade 8 mathematics: 52% proficiency, down 19 points from the prior year, though still 29 points above the state. Raw scores are not direct school-to-school comparisons because the schools serve different tested grades. SchoolDigger ranks DeWolf 19th of 743 schools (97th percentile, 5 stars) and Baldwin 162nd of 1,331 (88th percentile, 4 stars); these are SchoolDigger rankings, not test-score comparisons.

Results shifted in different ways by school and grade. Across the reported ELA and mathematics comparisons, the average advantage over the state narrowed from 32 points in 2024–2025 to 28 in 2025–2026. Baldwin’s two-grade averages rose in both subjects, but grade 4 scores fell in ELA and mathematics. DeWolf’s averages declined, with the sharpest change in grade 8 mathematics; its grade 6 mathematics result, by contrast, rose 7 points. For context, 2024–2025 student–teacher ratios were 10.7 at Baldwin and 11.6 at DeWolf, and both schools reported 1% free/reduced lunch eligible for school year 2024–2025.