Summary:
Zip code 07675 has nine schools serving elementary, middle and high school grades, with five elementary schools, three middle schools and one high school. The latest results show a positive statewide picture: every reported 2025–2026 school result was above its matching state result. The most important finding, though, is that local results vary considerably even among schools serving the same grade.
Charles DeWolf Middle School stands out among middle schools: it led in reported grades 6–8 ELA and math and grade-8 science. In grade-8 ELA, it scored 81%, compared with 66% at Holdrum Middle School and 60% at Westwood Regional Middle School, which was often the lowest of the three on shared tests. Elementary leaders depended on the test: Roberge Elementary School led grade-3 ELA at 85%, Woodside Elementary School led grade-3 math at 83%, and Berkeley Elementary led grade-5 math at 82%. Grade-5 math also showed a 31-point spread, from Berkeley’s 82% to Woodside’s 51%. Northern Valley Regional High School at Old Tappan was well above state results in its reported high-school tests, though it has no local high-school peer for comparison.
Across 63 matched results from the two available years, school scores declined by an average of 4 points, while state scores declined by 1 point; the average school-to-state lead narrowed by 3 points. The pattern was not uniform: T. Baldwin Demarest Elementary School and Woodside improved their average results, while Roberge’s average fell 7 points. SchoolDigger ranked DeWolf at the 97th percentile among middle schools and Old Tappan High at the 93rd percentile in 2025–2026. As context, the 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch eligible measure ranged from 1% at Demarest and DeWolf to 18% at Berkeley; these figures alone do not explain school results.
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