Ho-Ho-Kus Public School

Ho-Ho-Kus Public School serves 573 students in prekindergarten through grade 8 in Ho Ho Kus, New Jersey. In 2025–26, it scored above the state in every reported subject and grade, and mathematics is its clearest advantage: its average across tested grades was 87% proficient, compared with 40% statewide.

Mathematics stands out in local comparisons, too: Ho-Ho-Kus had 91% proficiency in grade 3 and 90% in grade 4, while nearby schools averaged 75% and 71%, respectively; no nearby school scored higher in either grade. Its results are less exceptional in some other comparisons: grade 5 ELA was 75%, about level with the nearby average, and grade 5 science was 52%, near the middle of nearby schools. Science is the weakest core subject relative to the state, though the school’s 47% average across tested science grades was still 24 percentage points higher than the state’s 23%. The reported school and Ho-Ho-Kus School District test scores match, with a 0-point gap.

Results have shifted unevenly: compared with four years earlier, average ELA proficiency fell from 88% to 85%, mathematics rose from 83% to 87%, and science declined from 49% to 47%. SchoolDigger ranks the school 40th of 1,331 statewide, at the 97th percentile with five stars; the district ranks 10th of 607. The 2024–25 student–teacher ratio was 11.9:1, within the nearby range of 8.9:1–13:1 but above the nearby average of about 10.9:1. The school reported 1% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2022–23; nearby figures are from 2024–25, so they are not directly comparable. A notable SchoolDigger subgroup change is Asian Students: its percentile for how well the school serves this group rose from 54 in 2024–25 to 96 in 2025–26, while the overall percentile rose from 95 to 97. Nearby comparisons cover only matching grades.