Summary:
Zip code 07857 has one listed school, Netcong Elementary School, a district school serving prekindergarten through grade 8. Its latest state test comparisons vary by grade and subject, but math is the clearest concern: the school’s 2025–2026 average was 27%, compared with 40% statewide, a 13-point gap.
No other school in this list can be ranked against Netcong. Within the school’s 2025–2026 results, fifth-grade science stood out: 36% met expectations, 9 points above the state result. Seventh-grade ELA was also above the state, at 60% versus 56%, a 4-point difference. The weakest comparisons were sixth-grade math, at 19% versus 40% statewide, and seventh-grade math, at 17% versus 38%—gaps of 22 and 21 points. Math was below the state in five of six grades; fifth grade was the exception, at 47% versus 46%. SchoolDigger ranked Netcong 785th of 1,331 schools in 2025–2026, in the 41st percentile, with 2 stars.
Results have shifted differently by subject: the ELA average fell from 53% in 2024–2025 to 47% in 2025–2026, while math fell from 33% to 27%; science improved from 21% to 25%. ELA gains in grades 3–5 contrasted with large declines in grades 6 and 8, and science’s improvement came from grade 5, while grade 8 science remained below the state. SchoolDigger’s ranking improved by 56 places and 4 percentile points from 2023–2024, while its star rating stayed at 2. As context, enrollment was 295 and the student-teacher ratio was 8.6 in 2024–2025; 49% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that school year. Chronic absenteeism was 9% in 2024–2025, 5 points below the state’s 14%. This list includes only one school, so it cannot show how results compare across schools.
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