Summary:
Zip code 07803 has one listed elementary school, Canfield Avenue School, serving pre-K through grade 6 with 382 students. Its 2025–2026 results show a clear subject contrast: the school’s average proficiency across grades 3–6 was 62% in English language arts (ELA), compared with 49% statewide, while math was roughly at the state level, at 45% versus 46%. Canfield’s clearest strength is ELA, where it outperformed the state in all four tested grades.
Results vary considerably by grade, with fourth-grade math the most notable concern and sixth-grade math a strength. In fourth-grade math, 27% of Canfield students were proficient, compared with 47% statewide—a gap of 20 percentage points—even after a substantial improvement from the prior year. In sixth-grade math, Canfield reached 54%, versus 40% statewide, an advantage of 14 points. ELA was above the state in every tested grade, by 3 to 18 points; the school’s highest ELA result was 70% in grade 5. Grade 5 science was also above the state in 2025–2026, at 31% versus 27%.
Some results improved over the two years, but not across the board. Fourth-grade math rose 11 points, from 17% to 27%, narrowing its shortfall against the state from 30 points to 20. The average ELA advantage over the state grew from about 6 points in 2024–2025 to 12 points in 2025–2026, although sixth-grade ELA fell 13 points, from 75% to 62%. SchoolDigger placed Canfield at the 58th percentile (rank 560 of 1,331) in 2025–2026, compared with the 53rd percentile the year before, and gave it 3 stars in each of the three years shown. In 2024–2025, its student–teacher ratio was 10.6, 43% of students were eligible for free/reduced lunch, and chronic absenteeism was 11%, below the state’s 14%. There is no second listed school for ZIP-code comparisons, and results from different years represent different student cohorts rather than progress for the same children.
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