Summary
Harrington Park School is a 627-student public school serving prekindergarten through eighth grade in Harrington Park, New Jersey. Its results are well above state averages overall, with Algebra I especially strong: 97% of students were proficient, compared with 40% statewide. The key qualification is eighth-grade math, where proficiency was 34%—the lowest among nearby schools serving that grade.
The school’s results match those of the Harrington Park School District in every reported subject and grade. Compared with the state, its 2025–2026 averages were 73% in ELA versus 51%, 69% in math versus 40%, and 51% in science versus 23%. Against the three other nearby schools serving grades 3–8, Harrington Park ranked third of four in ELA and second of four in math and science. Eighth-grade math was a particular concern: its 34% proficiency was below the nearby results of 35%, 46%, and 81%, though above the state’s 23%. By contrast, grade 7 ELA was a strength, at 87% versus 56% statewide.
Over four years, the school’s average math and science proficiency fell by 2 and 4 percentage points, respectively, even as its state advantages narrowed by 7 and 5 points. Eighth-grade math fell 36 points, from 70% in 2022–2023 to 34% in 2025–2026, while Algebra I remained high, moving from 97% to 97%. SchoolDigger ranked the school 169 of 1,331 statewide, at the 87th percentile with 4 stars; its percentile stayed between 87 and 88 from 2021–2022 through 2025–2026. SchoolDigger’s measure of how well the school serves Asian students was at the 56th percentile, down from the 76th percentile two years earlier; for English Language Learner students, it was at the 99th percentile. In 2024–2025, the student-teacher ratio was 11.2 and chronic absenteeism was 8%, the highest among nearby schools but below the state’s 14%. Free/reduced lunch eligible was 0.5% in 2022–2023, compared with 0.7% at Haworth Public School that year.
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