Summary:
ZIP code 07981 has four schools serving pre-K through grade 12: two elementary schools, one middle school and one high school, with 1,542 students combined. In 2025–2026, the schools’ average results were above state proficiency by 16 points in ELA, 14 points in math and 14 points in science. The clearest area-wide takeaway is that the largest school-to-school difference was in grade 5 math, where Salem Drive School led Bee Meadow School by 29 points.
Whippany Park High School stands out against the state in every reported, unsuppressed high-school test: for example, 73% were proficient in grade 9 ELA, compared with 51% statewide, and 96% in grade 9 Geometry, compared with 50%. Memorial Junior School had its strongest results in Algebra I, with 100% proficient in both reported grade 8 Algebra I measures, versus 75% and 40% statewide. At the elementary level, Bee Meadow led Salem Drive in all three reported ELA grades, while Salem led in grade 4 and grade 5 math; its grade 5 result was 73%, compared with Bee Meadow’s 44%. Bee Meadow’s grade 5 math result was slightly below the state, while Salem’s was 28 points above.
Results and rankings moved in different directions over time. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, the average school-to-state gap widened by 2 points in ELA and 1 point in science, but narrowed by 2 points in math; individual changes varied, including Bee Meadow’s 27-point rise in grade 5 ELA and Salem Drive’s 24-point drop in grade 4 math. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile rankings from 2023–2024 to 2025–2026 rose from 88th to 92nd for Whippany Park and 66th to 71st for Bee Meadow, while Memorial fell from 87th to 81st and Salem from 88th to 71st. As context, the 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch eligible shares were 5% at Whippany Park, 6% at Memorial, 6% at Bee Meadow and 3% at Salem; student-teacher ratios at the two elementary schools were 9.4 and 9.7, respectively. Year-to-year changes do not necessarily reflect the same students.
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