Schools in Zip Code 07640

ZIP code 07640 has one school, Harrington Park School, serving pre-K through grade 8, with 627 students. Its 2025–2026 results were above the state result in all 14 listed test comparisons. Across grades 3–8, its average was 73% in ELA versus 51% statewide and 69% in math versus 40%; in grades 5 and 8 science, it averaged 51% versus 23%. The most important finding is that results were consistently stronger than the state’s, although performance varied considerably by grade and test.

Within the school, grade 7 was the standout in ELA: 87% met the standard, 31 points above the state result. Grade 6 was the school’s lowest ELA result at 66%, but still 15 points above the state. Grade 4 led in math at 82%, 35 points above the state, while grade 8 math was the lowest result at 34%, 12 points above the state. The contrast is especially clear in grade 8: math was 34%, while Algebra I was 97%; these are separate assessments. Algebra I also had the largest state comparison gap: the end-of-course result was 97% versus 40% statewide, a 58-point advantage.

Changes over time differed by subject: ELA slipped by 2 points from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while its advantage over the state remained about 22 points; math fell by 3 points and its advantage narrowed from 32 to 29 points. Science improved by 5 points as the state result fell by 1, widening the school’s advantage from 21 to 27 points. SchoolDigger gave Harrington Park School four stars and ranked it 169th of 1,331 schools (87th percentile) in 2025–2026, similar to its 87th–88th percentile standing in the prior two reported years. Other context includes a student-teacher ratio of 11.2 in 2024–2025, about 1% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2022–2023, and chronic absenteeism of 8% in 2024–2025, compared with 14% statewide. With just one school listed, the ZIP code offers no school-to-school comparison.