Summary:
ZIP code 07206 has eight schools in Elizabeth Public Schools: seven listed as elementary and one as middle; seven serve through grade 8, while Terence C. Reilly School No 7 serves grades 2–8. Across the available 2025–2026 results, school averages were below matched state averages in ELA (31% versus 51%), math (25% versus 44%), science (10% versus 23%) and Algebra I (17% versus 40%). The central finding for families is that Reilly stands far above the other schools in most reported academic results.
Reilly led in ELA in every reported grade from 3 through 8, math in grades 3 through 6, both science grades and Algebra I; its six-grade ELA average was 78%, compared with 38% at iPrep Academy School No 8, a 40-point difference. iPrep was a notable runner-up in ELA, ranking second in grades 5, 6 and 7. Results at the lower end are split between schools: Benjamin Franklin School No. 13 had the lowest ELA results in grades 3, 4 and 6 and the lowest math results in grades 3, 4, 6 and 7; Jerome Dunn Academy No 9 had the lowest ELA results in grades 5, 7 and 8. For example, Franklin scored 7% in grade 4 ELA, while Dunn scored 24% in grade 8 ELA.
ELA results declined across all eight schools between the two reported years, and the average fell 9 percentage points, compared with a 3-point decline for the state; math edged up 1 point on average, while science rose 1 point as the state average fell 1. SchoolDigger ranks Reilly at the 70th percentile with four stars; every other school is at the 24th percentile or below, with zero or one star. Contextual measures also differ: in 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible was 79% at Reilly and 92% at Dunn, while student-teacher ratios across the schools ranged from 10.8 to 14.3. Chronic absenteeism was 3% at Reilly, 7% at iPrep and 27% at George Washington Academy School No. 1, compared with 14% statewide. Reilly’s Geometry result is an exception to its strong profile: 42% proficient, below the state’s 52%.
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