Summary:
Zip code 07731 has six schools in the Howell Township Public School District: five elementary schools serving kindergarten through grade 5 and one middle school serving grades 6–8. The elementary schools average 51% proficient in ELA and 48% in math, compared with state averages of 49% and 47%; the middle school’s averages are below the state in both subjects. The most important finding is that elementary results vary substantially from school to school, so the area-wide averages hide meaningful differences.
Greenville Elementary School leads elementary math at 54% and fifth-grade science at 31%, and is second in ELA at 56%. Aldrich Elementary School has the highest ELA average, 57%, and ranks second in math at 49%. At the lower end, Taunton Elementary School averages 43% in ELA, the lowest among the five, while Land O'Pines Elementary School has the lowest math average at 42%. Taunton’s math average is 50%, however, and its fifth-grade science result is above the state. Howell Township Middle School South averages 51% in ELA and 33% in grade-level math, below state averages by 2 and 1 points; its reported Algebra I and Geometry results exceed state results by 7 to 11 points.
Elementary ELA improved relative to the state from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: the school average rose 2 points while the state average fell 2 points. Math moved the other way: the school average fell 2 points, leaving it just 1 point above the state. Middle School South’s ELA and math averages fell 10 and 6 points, respectively. SchoolDigger ranks Greenville highest among these elementary schools, at the 60th percentile, and Land O'Pines lowest, at the 44th percentile. Context also differs: elementary enrollment ranges from 345 to 530 students, student-teacher ratios from 10.0 to 12.2, and free/reduced lunch eligible shares from 25% to 34% in school year 2024–2025; these measures do not explain test results.
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