Summary:
Zip code 07039 has six Livingston elementary schools: five serve kindergarten through grade 5, while Burnet Hill serves prekindergarten through grade 5. In 2025–2026, the six schools were above New Jersey results in every reported grade and subject, with their average advantage ranging from 30 to 37 percentage points. Results still vary across the area: the schools’ overall averages ranged from about 74% to 86%. The most important takeaway is that the area is strong compared with the state, but one school’s results do not represent them all.
Hillside Elementary School stands out across subjects, averaging 89% in ELA and 87% in math for grades 3–5, and 86% across its seven results. At the other end, Collins Elementary School averaged 74.4%, just below Riker Hill Elementary School at 74.5%. Harrison Elementary School is the grade 5 leader, with 88% in ELA, 90% in math and 81% in science. Its science result was 33 percentage points above Collins’s, while its math result was 20 points above Collins’s. Collins had the lowest grade 5 math and science results.
Year-to-year changes were mixed: Hillside had the largest average increase, about 3 percentage points, while Collins had the largest average decline, about 3 points. SchoolDigger rankings improved from 2023–2024 to 2025–2026 for Riker Hill (134 to 81) and Hillside (45 to 11); these are rankings, not test-score changes. Ratios also do not neatly track results: Mount Pleasant Elementary School had the highest reported ratio, 13.6 students per teacher, and the third-highest overall average, while Burnet Hill Elementary School had the lowest ratio, 10.8, and averaged 76%. All six report free/reduced lunch eligible for 2024–2025, with reported levels from 1% to 4%; these figures are context, not an explanation for test results. Test-score changes compare grade-level results across years, not the same students.
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