Schools in Zip Code 07901

Schools in ZIP code 07901 include nine schools in the Summit Public School District: seven elementary schools serving PK through grade 5, one middle school serving grades 6–8 and one high school serving grades 9–12. The two Primary Centers serve PK–K, while five elementary schools have comparable test results for grades 3–5. Most importantly, those five schools averaged 77% in ELA, 81% in mathematics and 52% in grade-5 science in 2025–2026—28, 34 and 24 percentage points above state averages.

Franklin Elementary led the five-school group in all three measures, averaging 84% in ELA, 91% in mathematics and 60% in science. Those results were 10, 13 and 11 points above the other four schools’ averages. Jefferson Elementary had the lowest ELA and science averages, at 64% and 39%; those were 16 points below the other four schools’ averages in each subject. Brayton had the lowest mathematics average, 74%. At Lawton C. Johnson Summit Middle School, eighth-grade math proficiency was 40%, below its sixth- and seventh-grade results of 74% and 75%, but 18 points above the state result.

Elementary results declined by an average of 4 points from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, compared with a 1-point average state decline; the high school’s eight matched results fell by an average of 6 points while the state’s were nearly unchanged. SchoolDigger ranked Franklin 18th of 1,331 New Jersey elementary schools and the middle school 43rd of 743 in 2025–2026. School context does not neatly predict results: in 2024–2025, Franklin had 369 students and a 12.7 student-teacher ratio, while Jefferson had 221 students and a 9.4 ratio. Their free/reduced lunch eligible measures that year were 3% and 27%, respectively—contextual figures, not explanations of scores.