Summary
Wantage Elementary School serves 396 students in grades 3–5 in Wantage, New Jersey, among a group of nearby community schools. The most important finding is that its 2025–2026 proficiency rates were below New Jersey’s in every tested subject: across grades 3–5, average proficiency was 32% in ELA versus 49% statewide and 27% in math versus 47%; in grade 5 science, 13% met expectations versus 27% statewide.
Compared with nearby schools, Wantage’s strongest relative result was grade 5 science, though it still trailed the nearby average: 13% versus 17%, a gap of 4 points. Its clearest weakness was grade 3 ELA, where 24% met expectations compared with 48% nearby, a 24-point gap; Wantage was also behind nearby averages in every other tested grade and subject. Math was consistently low, with results about 9–15 points below nearby same-grade averages. Its ELA results were 7–24 points below the state, math results about 20 points below, and grade 5 science 14 points below. The supplied district results are identical or nearly identical to the state’s, so they show little separation from Wantage’s state comparisons.
Results over time show that math and science have lost ground while ELA has been roughly flat: from 2022–2023 to 2025–2026, the three-grade averages fell from 36% to 27% in math and from 26% to 13% in science, while ELA shifted from 33% to 32%. SchoolDigger ranked Wantage 1,065th of 1,331 schools, at the 20th percentile and with one star; its percentile fell from 53 in 2015–2016. In 2024–2025, its student-teacher ratio was 10.1, close to the nearby average of 9.9, and 35% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible. SchoolDigger’s ranking for White Students was notably lower than its overall standing, at the 4th percentile versus the school’s 20th. Its ranking for Hispanic Students fell from the 48th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 18th the next year, before rising to the 22nd percentile in 2025–2026.
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