Summary:
Hazlet Township has four elementary schools in the Hazlet Township Public School District: three serve grades 1–4, while Sycamore Drive Early Childhood Learning Center serves preschool through kindergarten. In 2025–2026, the three schools with results averaged about 48% proficiency across the reported grade-and-subject comparisons, nearly matching the state average. The most important finding is how much results vary by school and subject: grade 3 math had the widest school-to-school gap, at 39 percentage points.
Middle Road School led three of the four comparisons, with 49% proficiency in grade 3 ELA, 61% in grade 4 ELA and 68% in grade 3 math; those results were 1, 15 and 19 points above the respective state figures. Raritan Valley School led grade 4 math at 64%, 17 points above the state. At the other end, Lillian Drive School was below the state in all four comparisons, including grade 3 math at 30% versus 49%, a 20-point gap. Across all four results, Middle Road averaged 55%, Raritan Valley 53% and Lillian Drive 35%, compared with 48% for the state.
Average results declined from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026 at each tested school: by 8 points at Middle Road, 4 at Raritan Valley and 1 at Lillian Drive; the state average fell by 1 point. SchoolDigger’s 2025–2026 rankings put Middle Road at the 60th percentile, Raritan Valley at the 59th and Lillian Drive at the 29th; their three-year paths differed, with Raritan Valley declining from the 71st percentile and Lillian Drive moving from the 50th to the 29th. In 2024–2025, student-teacher ratios ranged from 11.4 at Lillian Drive to 14.6 at Middle Road, while free/reduced lunch eligible shares were 31% at Lillian Drive and 17%–18% at the other three schools. Sycamore’s 20% chronic absenteeism rate stood out against 5%–11% at the tested schools; it serves younger children and has no supplied NJSLA results.
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