Summary:
ZIP code 07717 has one school, Avon Elementary School, serving pre-K through grade 8 and enrolling 112 students. There are no other local schools in this list to compare with it. In 2025–26, Avon scored above New Jersey in every reported school-grade result, making its consistently higher-than-state performance the clearest takeaway for families.
Avon’s strongest reported results were in grade 5: 100% proficiency in math, 55 percentage points above the state, and 100% in ELA, 48 points above. Its grade 5 science result was 67%, compared with 27% statewide, a 39-point advantage. The relative low point was grade 4 math: 50% proficiency, just 3 points above the state’s 47%. Across grades 3–5, Avon’s unweighted ELA average was 86% versus 49% statewide, while its math average was 76% versus 47%. As the only school listed, Avon has no local school-to-school comparison; some grades 6–8 results are suppressed and are not included.
Year-to-year results were mixed, so the broader upward ranking trend does not mean every grade improved. From 2024–25 to 2025–26, grade 3 ELA rose 20 points and grade 3 math rose 19, while grade 4 ELA fell 20 points and grade 4 math fell 19. SchoolDigger’s school ranking improved from the 57th percentile in 2023–24 to the 83rd in 2024–25 and the 90th in 2025–26; it also gives the Avon Boro School District four stars and ranks it 62nd of 607 districts. As context, in 2024–25, 14% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible, the student-teacher ratio was 6.2, and chronic absenteeism was 2%, compared with 14% statewide.
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