Summary:
ZIP code 07005 has five schools: three elementary schools, one middle school and one high school. Four report test results, while School Street School has no reported scores. The results vary substantially by school and grade, so a strong result in one subject does not guarantee strength in another. The clearest overall standout is Rockaway Valley School, which led the listed schools in several grades and had especially strong science results.
Rockaway Valley had 60% proficiency in grade 5 science, 33 points above the state, and 43% in grade 8 science, compared with 19% statewide. Intervale Elementary School stood out in grade 3 math at 72%, 23 points above the state; its grade 4 ELA result was weaker, at 45%, just below the state’s 46%. John Hill School had 100% proficiency in grade 8 Algebra I, but only 31% in grade 5 math, 15 points below the state. Boonton High School was above the state in grade 9 ELA and Geometry, but below it in Algebra I and grade 11 science. Results differ sharply by grade, and School Street cannot be compared on achievement because it has no reported test scores.
Recent results are mixed: Rockaway Valley’s ELA proficiency fell in five of six comparable grades from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, including a 39-point drop in grade 6, though its grade 7 result rose 13 points. SchoolDigger’s rankings also declined from 2023–2024 to 2025–2026 at Rockaway (93rd to 76th percentile), Intervale (81st to 76th) and Boonton High (59th to 53rd); John Hill rose 7 percentile points in the latest year. As context, 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch eligible rates were 40% at John Hill, 19% at Intervale and 2% at Rockaway; John Hill’s student-teacher ratio was 8.4, versus 14.1 at School Street. These are observations, not explanations for test results.
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