Summary:
Zip code 07730 has nine schools—four elementary, three middle and two high schools—serving students from early childhood through high school, with test results supplied for 2024–2025 and 2025–2026. Results vary considerably between schools: the clearest divide is Grade 3 math, where Middle Road School scored 68% and Lillian Drive School scored 30%, a 39-point gap; the state score was 49%. That sharp variation, especially in elementary math, is the most important finding for families comparing schools in the area.
Middle Road School stands out in several elementary comparisons: it led Grade 3 in ELA and math and Grade 4 in ELA, with Grade 4 ELA at 61%, 15 points above the state. Raritan Valley School led Grade 4 math at 64%, 17 points above state, while Beers Street School led most comparisons for Grades 5–6, including Grade 6 math at 58%, 17 points above state. At the lower end, Lillian Drive scored 30% in Grade 3 math, 20 points below state; in Grade 4 math it scored 38%, while Raritan Valley scored 64%. Results are also uneven within schools: Middle Road was 6 points below state in Grade 4 math despite its other strengths, and Raritan High School’s Grade 11 NJGPA ELA was 2 points above state while its Grade 9 ELA was 16 points below.
The area’s matched-grade ELA average was 52% in 2025–2026, about 2 points above the state average; the math average was 42%, about 1 point below. ELA’s advantage narrowed from 7 points in 2024–2025, while math moved from level with the state to slightly below. Individual trends differ: Middle Road’s Grade 3 ELA fell 15 points between years, but its Grade 3 math rose 4; at Beers Street, Grade 6 ELA fell 17 points while math rose 4. SchoolDigger ranks Middle Road at the 60th percentile and Raritan Valley at the 59th, compared with the 29th percentile for both Lillian Drive and Raritan High. The free/reduced lunch eligible measure for 2024–2025 ranged from 16% at Sycamore Drive Early Childhood Learning Center to 31% at Lillian Drive; this is context, not an explanation of results. No test-score entries are supplied here for Sycamore Drive or Monmouth County Vocational Technical High School.
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