Summary:
Schools in ZIP code 07508 include six schools serving grades PK–12: three elementary schools, two middle schools and one high school. In 2025–2026, the elementary and middle-school averages were 38% in ELA, 29% in math and 11% in science, compared with state averages of 51%, 40% and 24%, respectively. The most important finding is that results vary sharply by school and grade, while area averages remain 11.3–12.8 points below the state.
High Mountain School was the strongest middle-grade performer, leading the listed schools in grades 6–8 ELA and math; its grade-8 math result was 64%, 41 points above the state. Memorial Elementary School led the grade-3 and grade-4 elementary comparisons, including grade-3 ELA at 59% and math at 57%. At the other end, Prospect Park School No. 1 had the lowest listed ELA and math results in each grade from 3–6; for example, grade-6 ELA was 18% there versus 65% at High Mountain. The high school also faces challenges: its grade-11 results were 53% in ELA and 31% in math, 23 and 30 points below state results, while graduation was 77% versus 89% statewide.
Recent results moved closer to the state overall, but progress was uneven: the average school-versus-state gap narrowed by about 3 points in ELA, 1 point in math and 2 points in science from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026. Prospect Park Middle School improved in grade-7 and grade-8 ELA, while Haledon Public School’s six ELA results fell by an average of 8 points. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile ranking rose for Memorial, from 40 in 2023–2024 to 58 in 2025–2026; High Mountain was at the 74th percentile, while Haledon fell from 26 to 20. As context, the 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch eligible measure was 24% at High Mountain, 26% at Memorial and 68% at Haledon; student-teacher ratios were 10.4, 10.2 and 16.3, respectively. These figures describe different school contexts, not causes of achievement.
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