Summary:
The 08049 school list contains one school, Magnolia, a PK–8 school with 396 students. Its results vary substantially by subject and grade, but mathematics is the clearest concern: in 2025–2026, proficiency was below New Jersey’s in all six tested grades, and the school’s grade average was 23% compared with 40% statewide. The most important finding for families is that mathematics was consistently well below state results, with an average gap of 18 percentage points.
There are no other listed schools to compare, so Magnolia is both the highest- and lowest-listed school by default. Its strongest subject comparison was ELA: the unweighted grade average was 53%, slightly above the state average of 51%. That average hides a sharp split, however: grades 6 and 7 were above the state, while grades 3, 4 and 8 were below it; grade 7 was 73% proficient versus 56% statewide, while grade 8 was 37% versus 53%. Science was below the state in both tested grades: grade 5 was 16% versus 27%, and grade 8 was 5% versus 19%.
Compared with 2024–2025, Magnolia’s ELA grade average fell 10 percentage points, narrowing its advantage over the state from 9 points to 2; its mathematics and science deficits widened from 16 to 18 points and from 10 to 13 points. SchoolDigger ranked the school 879th of 1,331 schools, in the 34th percentile with 2 stars, compared with the 39th percentile and 2 stars the prior year. Context measures include 44% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025, a 9.7 student-teacher ratio that year, and chronic absenteeism of 10%—the same as the Magnolia School District and 4 percentage points below the state.
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