River Edge School District

River Edge School District has two elementary schools: Cherry Hill School, serving PK–6, and Roosevelt School, serving K–6. In 2025–2026, both schools’ results were above the state in every reported subject and grade, by 15 to 40 percentage points. The strongest area-wide results still conceal meaningful grade-level differences: the biggest school-to-school gap was in fifth-grade math, where Roosevelt led Cherry Hill by 23 points.

Neither school leads across the board. Cherry Hill was ahead in third- and fourth-grade ELA by 10 and 8 points, while Roosevelt led in fifth- and sixth-grade ELA by 12 and 3 points, and in fifth-grade science by 11 points. Fifth-grade math stands out most: Roosevelt had 83% proficient compared with Cherry Hill’s 61%; Cherry Hill’s result was its lowest, but still 15 points above the state. Across grades 3–6, the schools’ averages were close in ELA—78% at Cherry Hill and 77% at Roosevelt—while Roosevelt’s math average was higher, 77% to 74%. In fifth-grade science, Roosevelt also led, 58% to 47%.

Recent changes were mixed, including a sharp reversal in fifth-grade math: Cherry Hill led by 9 points in 2024–2025, but Roosevelt led by 23 points in 2025–2026, a 32-point swing. Roosevelt’s grade-equal ELA average fell by 6 points, while Cherry Hill’s was nearly steady; Cherry Hill’s fifth-grade science result fell by 12 points. SchoolDigger’s ranking placed Cherry Hill at the 91st percentile in 2025–2026, down from the 95th in 2023–2024, while Roosevelt remained at the 94th percentile. As context, 2024–2025 student–teacher ratios were 11.8 at Cherry Hill and 14.8 at Roosevelt; free/reduced lunch eligible shares that year were 2% and 1%, respectively. These measures do not establish what caused the test-score differences.