Summary:
Zip code 07439 has one school, Ogdensburg Borough School, serving prekindergarten through grade 8 with 280 students. There are no other local schools to compare, so the most useful picture comes from its grade-by-grade results against New Jersey and changes over time. The school’s overall ELA average is above the state average, but its math average is essentially even and results vary widely by grade. Most importantly, seventh-grade math proficiency is a pronounced weak spot: 19% at the school compared with 38% statewide, a 19-point gap.
Ogdensburg Borough School stands out most positively in third-grade ELA, where 65% of students were proficient in 2025–2026, compared with 48% statewide—a 17-point advantage. Across grades 3–8, its ELA average was 57%, versus 51% statewide, a 6-point advantage. The clearest concern is math: while fourth-grade proficiency was 56%, or 9 points above the state, seventh-grade proficiency was 19%, or 19 points below. Across grades 3–8, the math average was about even with the state. Science was also below the state average across grades 5 and 8: 18% versus 23%, a 5-point gap.
Results shifted considerably from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026. The Algebra I end-of-course result dropped 53 points, from 92% to 39%, while the state result rose 2 points, from 38% to 40%; this is the largest change in the data. The school’s science average fell 24 points, from 42% to 18%, while ELA’s average advantage over the state grew from 3 to 6 points. SchoolDigger’s ranking declined from the 60th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 55th in 2025–2026, and its latest rating is 3 stars. As context, in 2024–2025, 25% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible, the student-teacher ratio was 10.2, and chronic absenteeism was 11%, compared with 14% statewide.
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