Summary:
ZIP code 07950 has four schools—three elementary schools and one middle school—with reported enrollment totaling 1,217, spanning the early grades through grade 8. Morris Plains Borough School serves grades 3–8, and Mountview Road School serves grades 3–5; Alfred Vail School and Mountain Way School serve through grade 2. Most importantly, both schools with supplied test results outperform state rates in every reported, non-suppressed subject and grade.
Morris Plains Borough stands out most broadly: across grades 3–8, its average was 76% in ELA and 72% in math, compared with state averages of 51% and 40%. Mountview also exceeded the state across its reported grades 3–5, averaging 70% in ELA and 70% in math. In the shared grades, Morris Plains led overall in ELA, 73% to 70%, while math was nearly even, 70.2% to 70.4%. Mountview led in grade 3 ELA and math; Morris Plains led in both subjects in grades 4 and 5. Both schools were also above the state in grade 5 science. No test scores are supplied for Alfred Vail or Mountain Way, so they cannot be placed in this achievement comparison.
Recent changes vary by subject: across the two tested schools, shared-grade ELA averages stayed around 72%, while the school-to-state gap widened from 21 to 23 points; math averages fell by 2 points, and the gap narrowed from 26 to 23 points. Grade 5 science fell by 8 points on average, including a 19-point decline at Mountview, while Morris Plains rose by 2 points. SchoolDigger ranks Morris Plains 52nd of 743 (93rd percentile, five stars) and Mountview 221st of 1,331 (83rd percentile, four stars). For context, student-teacher ratios are 8.7:1 and 10.6:1, respectively. In school year 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible was 14% at Morris Plains and 10% at Mountview; it was 49% at Alfred Vail and 12% at Mountain Way. These are school-context observations, not explanations for test results.
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