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Best Public Schools in Zip Code 07853


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Top rankedLong Valley Middle School100th of 743 New Jersey middle schools
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Long Valley Middle School up 24 spots statewide this year
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Summary:

ZIP code 07853 has four schools serving prekindergarten through grade 8: three elementary schools and one middle school, all in the Washington Township School District. In 2025–2026, all four were above state results in every reported ELA and science comparison, and almost all were above state in math. The clearest exception is fourth-grade math at Old Farmers Road School: 42% proficient, compared with 47% statewide. The main takeaway is that results are generally strong against the state, but elementary math varies sharply by school and grade.

Flocktown-Kossmann Elementary School leads the elementary schools in grade 3–5 averages, with 70% in ELA and 66% in math; its ELA average is 5 percentage points above Old Farmers, and its math average is 14 points higher. Benedict A. Cucinella School falls between the other two in both averages, but leads fifth-grade ELA at 74% and math at 66%. Old Farmers has the lowest elementary math average, 52%, yet the highest fifth-grade science result: 40%, or 13 points above the state. Long Valley Middle School stands well above state averages in ELA and math—73% and 52%, respectively, or 20 and 19 points higher—and scored 30% in eighth-grade science versus 19% statewide.

Recent trends are mixed, and the area’s average advantage over the state narrowed in ELA, math and science. Old Farmers had the sharpest change: its math average fell 20 points, from 71% to 52%, while its advantage over the state shrank from 24 points to 4. By contrast, its fifth-grade science result rose from 40% to 40% (an increase of 1 point). SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile for Old Farmers also fell from 81 to 67 between 2023–2024 and 2025–2026; the other three schools each gained 2 points. As context, Flocktown’s 2024–2025 student-teacher ratio was 12.4, compared with 9.9 at Benedict and 10.3 at Old Farmers. All three reported free/reduced lunch eligible shares for school year 2024–2025: 6% at Flocktown, 9% at Benedict and 9% at Old Farmers; these figures describe school context, not the reasons for score differences.

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