Summary:
Zip code 07825 has three schools serving 1,134 students across prekindergarten through grade 12: Blairstown Elementary School serves PK–6, Ridge and Valley Charter School serves K–8, and North Warren Regional School serves grades 7–12. The clearest area-wide finding is that elementary ELA results were around the state average, while elementary math was notably lower: across grades 3–6, the schools averaged 51% in ELA versus 49% statewide, and 33% in math versus 45% statewide—a 12-point shortfall.
Ridge and Valley stands out for upper-grade results, leading schools with the same grade reported in ELA in grades 4, 6, 7 and 8, and in regular math in grades 3, 4, 6 and 7. Its grade 7 ELA result was 80%, 21 points above North Warren’s; however, Ridge and Valley’s grade 8 Algebra I result was 36%, 39 points below the state. Blairstown led the two elementary schools in grade 5 ELA (63% versus 47%), but its grade 3 and 4 math results were 22 and 26 points below the state. North Warren’s results also vary: grade 8 Algebra I was 80%, 6 points above the state, while its grade 9 Algebra I result was 18%, 4 points below.
Recent trends offer a mixed picture: the elementary schools’ combined grades 3–6 ELA average rose 3 points to 51% from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while their math average fell 3 points to 33%. North Warren’s grades 7–9 ELA average rose 8 points to 56%, and its SchoolDigger statewide ranking percentile increased 13 points, from 46 to 59. SchoolDigger’s percentile rose 9 points for Ridge and Valley, from 38 to 47, and slipped 1 point for Blairstown, from 40 to 39. Student-teacher ratios range from 7.4 at Ridge and Valley to 11.1 at North Warren; the 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch eligible shares were 28%, 17% and 18%, respectively, at Ridge and Valley, North Warren and Blairstown. These figures are context, not explanations for results; schools serve different grade spans, and Ridge and Valley is much smaller, with 134 students.
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