Summary:
The 07206 middle-school list has one school, Terence C. Reilly School No 7, serving grades 2–8 in Elizabeth with 1,130 students. In 2024–2025, chronic absenteeism was 3% at the school, compared with 14% in Elizabeth Public Schools and 14% statewide. The most important finding for families is that the school’s reported ELA and regular-grade math results were consistently above state results: its 2025–2026 grade averages were 78% versus 51% in ELA, a 27-point advantage, and 71% versus 46% in math for grades 3–6, a 25-point advantage.
Terence C. Reilly had its strongest reported regular-grade result in seventh-grade ELA, with 89% proficient; its lowest was fourth-grade math, at 66%. The school exceeded state results in every reported ELA grade and in math grades 3–6. It also scored above the state in fifth- and eighth-grade science (48% versus 27%, and 35% versus 19%) and Algebra I (60% versus 40%). Geometry was the notable exception: 42% were proficient, 9 points below the state’s 52%. Since this is the only school in the list, families cannot compare its results with another middle school in the ZIP code.
ELA results fell from an average of 87% in 2024–2025 to 78% in 2025–2026, while the state average went from 54% to 51%; the school’s advantage narrowed by 7 points. Fourth-grade ELA had the largest grade-level drop, down 20 points. In contrast, the grades 3–6 math average was nearly unchanged at 71% in both years. Algebra I improved by 8 points and Geometry by 5, though Geometry remained below the state. SchoolDigger ranked the school 223rd of 743 statewide for 2025–2026, at the 70th percentile, and gave it four stars. Other context includes a 14.1 student–teacher ratio and 79% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025; these are observations about the school, not explanations for its results.
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