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Rockaway Borough School District

At a glance

355^thof 609 New Jersey districts▼ 170

Better than 41% of New Jersey districts

Elementary 1 Middle 1Grades PK, KG-8

103 East Main Street
Rockaway, NJ 07866·(973) 625-8601·All New Jersey district rankings →

Statewide performance 2017–2025

2025: better than 41.7% of districts

Schools

571

Students

Top rankedThomas Jefferson Middle School239^th of 752 New Jersey middle schools

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Summary:

The Rockaway Borough School District in New Jersey consists of two schools - Thomas Jefferson Middle School and Lincoln Elementary School. These schools serve students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade in the Rockaway Borough community.

Thomas Jefferson Middle School stands out for its exceptional performance, particularly in Algebra I, where it has achieved a 100% proficiency rate on both 8th-grade and end-of-course assessments. The school also demonstrates strong results in 8th-grade English Language Arts, with proficiency rates reaching 80.3% in 2024-2025. In contrast, Lincoln Elementary School has shown improvement, moving from a 1-star to a 3-star rating on SchoolDigger between 2022-2023 and 2023-2024, and performing well on 3rd-grade English Language Arts and Mathematics assessments, exceeding district and state averages.

Both schools have similar chronic absenteeism rates of 14.9% in 2023-2024, which is an area that could benefit from further investigation. Additionally, Thomas Jefferson Middle School has a slightly higher per-student spending of $8,950 in 2018-2019 compared to Lincoln Elementary School's $8,637, as well as a lower student-teacher ratio of 8.9 versus 10.7, which may contribute to the middle school's stronger academic performance.

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Ranking:

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School													Students/Teachers											Ranking (2025)				Ranking (2024)				NJSLA-S Science (2025)		NJSLA English Language Arts (2025)						NJSLA Mathematics (2025)						NJSLA Algebra I (2025)		Per Pupil Expenditures (2019)
Name	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	Enrollment	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Free/Discounted Lunch Recipients	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Average Standard Score (2025)	Statewide Rank (2025)	State Percentile (2025)	SchoolDigger Rating (2025)	Average Standard Score (2024)	Statewide Rank (2024)	State Percentile (2024)	Rank Change from Previous Year	NJSLA-S Science 5th Grade	NJSLA-S Science 8th Grade	NJSLA English Language Arts 3rd Grade	NJSLA English Language Arts 4th Grade	NJSLA English Language Arts 5th Grade	NJSLA English Language Arts 6th Grade	NJSLA English Language Arts 7th Grade	NJSLA English Language Arts 8th Grade	NJSLA Mathematics 3rd Grade	NJSLA Mathematics 4th Grade	NJSLA Mathematics 5th Grade	NJSLA Mathematics 6th Grade	NJSLA Mathematics 7th Grade	NJSLA Mathematics 8th Grade	NJSLA Algebra I 8th Grade	NJSLA Algebra I End of Course	Per Pupil Expenditures Total	Sub-total from Federal Funds	Sub-total from State/Local Funds
Thomas Jefferson Middle School	Public	4-8	95 East Main Street	Rockaway	07866	Morris County	Rockaway Borough School District	No	(n/a)	No	Yes	(973) 625-8603	299	32	9.4	32.4%	143 (47.8%)	12 (4.0%)	111 (37.1%)	21 (7.0%)	0 (0.0%)	1 (0.3%)	10 (3.3%)	64.3	239^th of 752 public middle schools	68.2%		70	192^nd of 743 public middle schools	74.2%	47	20.3	30.1		50.0	43.5	56.4	45.3	80.3		64.0	32.8	40.7	34.6	44.9	100.0	100.0	$8,950	$140	$8,810
Lincoln Elementary School	Public	PK, KG-3	37 Keller Avenue	Rockaway	07866	Morris County	Rockaway Borough School District	No	(n/a)	No	Yes	(973) 625-8602	272	22	12.5	27.9%	126 (46.3%)	10 (3.7%)	108 (39.7%)	22 (8.1%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	5 (1.8%)	31.4	936^th of 1347 public elementary schools	30.5%		70.9	406^th of 1338 public elementary schools	69.7%	530			34.9						39.1								$8,637	$54	$8,583

Districts nearby

District	Distance	# of Schools	Statewide Rank
Morris County Vocational School District	0.84 mi	5	157^th
Morris Hills Regional School District	0.84 mi	2	174^th
Rockaway Township School District	1.36 mi	6	205^th
Denville Township K-8 School District	1.4 mi	3	85^th
Dover Public School District	2.06 mi	5	539^th

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the New Jersey Department of Education.

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