Summary:
The Spotswood Public School District includes four schools serving PK through grade 12: two elementary schools, one middle school and one high school. SchoolDigger rates the district at two stars and the 39th percentile. Results vary considerably by grade and subject: the most important takeaway is that no single score captures the experience across these schools.
Spotswood Memorial Middle School and Spotswood High School have some of the strongest state comparisons: Memorial’s Algebra I end-of-course result is 57% proficient, 17 points above the state, while the high school’s NJGPA results are 84% in English and 69% in math—8 points above state in each. The clearest shortfalls are the high school’s Algebra I result, 12% versus 40% statewide; E Raymond Appleby Elementary School fourth-grade math, 28% versus 47%; and Memorial eighth-grade math, 7% versus 23%. Appleby’s third-grade math is a small bright spot at 49.4% versus 49.2% statewide. SchoolDigger places the high school at the 57th percentile, Memorial at the 52nd and Appleby at the 37th. Because the schools serve different grades, these figures are best read against state results for the same grade, not as a direct school ranking.
Across 23 matched school, grade and test comparisons, results moved an average of 4 percentage points closer to state benchmarks between years, but gains were uneven: Memorial improved by an average of 9 points per comparison, Appleby by 2, and the high school by 1. For example, Memorial eighth-grade ELA rose from 38% to 51%, while Appleby fourth-grade ELA fell from 51% to 33%. SchoolDigger’s percentile ranking also rose from 35 to 52 for Memorial and from 43 to 57 for the high school between 2023–2024 and 2025–2026; Appleby’s latest percentile was 37, up from 31 the prior year. Student-teacher ratios range from 9.6 at Appleby to 15.6 at G Austin Schoenly Elementary School, which has no test scores in the supplied data. All four schools reported free/reduced lunch eligible for 2024–2025, ranging from 24% to 31%.
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