Summary:
Six schools serve students from pre-K through grade 12 in zip code 07631, with 3,153 students across early-childhood, elementary, middle, K–8 charter, and high-school settings. Five schools report test results; Donald A. Quarles Early Childhood Center does not. The clearest area-wide academic concern is math: across matched grades 3–8 results, schools averaged 20% proficient compared with 40% statewide, a 20-point gap; the comparable ELA gap was 10 points.
Englewood on the Palisades Charter School stands out among schools sharing grades, leading 11 of 14 matched comparisons and scoring 26% in grade 8 math, 3 points above the state. Its results are not uniformly above state levels, however: grade 8 ELA was 51% versus 53% statewide. At the other end, Janis E. Dismus Middle School had just 1% proficient in grade 7 math and 4% in grade 8, versus 38% and 23% statewide. Dwight Morrow High School/Academies@Englewood also fell below state results in grade 9 ELA (46% versus 51%) and grade 11 NJGPA math (48% versus 61%). Absenteeism is another concern: every school exceeded the 14% state rate, with Quarles highest at 31% and the charter lowest at 18%.
Recent results show no consistent improvement: matched ELA scores held roughly steady on average while state scores fell 3 points, but school math scores fell 3 points as the state average rose slightly. Individual results varied: the charter’s grade 7 ELA rose 15 points, while Dismus grade 7 math fell 14 points. SchoolDigger gives the charter a 29th-percentile ranking and one star; it gives Dr. John Grieco Elementary School the 16th percentile and one star, and Dwight Morrow the 26th percentile and one star. As context, all six schools reported free/reduced lunch eligible figures for 2024–2025, from 47% at the charter to 81% at Dismus; ratios ranged from 8.3 students per teacher at Dismus to 13.2 at Dwight Morrow.
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