Summary:
Zip code 07704 has two Fair Haven schools: Viola L. Sickles School, serving PK–3, and Knollwood School, serving grades 4–8. Both schools’ 2025–2026 results were generally above New Jersey rates, but that strong picture has a notable exception: Knollwood grade 8 Mathematics was just 9% proficient, 14 percentage points below the state’s 23%.
Sickles stood out in grade 3, with 80% proficiency in ELA and 85% in Mathematics—32 and 36 points above the state, respectively. Knollwood was strong across grades 4–7 in both subjects; its best standard ELA result was 86% in grade 5, 34 points above the state. Knollwood also reached 100% in Geometry in both reported results, 48 points above the state in End-of-Course Geometry and 14 points above in grade 8 Geometry. Its grade 8 Mathematics result was the clear low point. Because the schools serve different grades, their test results do not provide a same-grade comparison.
Recent changes were mixed: Knollwood grade 8 Mathematics fell 30 points from the prior year, while its average ELA advantage across the six reported grade-level results widened by 1 point and its average Mathematics advantage narrowed by 8 points. Sickles remained well above state rates, though its grade 3 Mathematics advantage narrowed from 40 to 36 points. SchoolDigger ranks Sickles 52nd of 1,331 schools (96th percentile, five stars) and Knollwood 94th of 743 (87th percentile, four stars); both rankings have slipped over three years. For context, in 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible students were 0.7% at Sickles and 0.6% at Knollwood. Student-teacher ratios were 11.6 and 8.7, respectively, and chronic absenteeism was about 5% at each school, versus 14% statewide.
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