Summary:
Zip code 08062 has one listed elementary school, Harrison Township Elementary School, which serves prekindergarten through grade 3 and enrolls 768 students. Its third-grade results are well above state levels in both subjects: in 2025–2026, 63% were proficient in English language arts (ELA), compared with 48% statewide, a 15-point lead; in math, 75% were proficient, compared with 49% statewide, a 26-point lead. The most important finding is that the school outperformed the state in both ELA and math.
Harrison Township Elementary School is both the highest- and lowest-performing school in this list simply because it is the only one; there is no meaningful local school-to-school comparison. Its above-state results also appeared in 2024–2025, when third-grade proficiency was 59% in ELA versus 45% statewide (14 points higher) and 70% in math versus 50% statewide (20 points higher). Math is the stronger subject relative to the state: across the two years, its average advantage was 23 points, compared with 15 points in ELA.
Results improved from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: the school’s proficiency rose 4 points in ELA and 5 in math, while the state rose 3 points in ELA and fell 1 point in math. The school’s lead therefore widened by 1 point in ELA and 5 points in math. SchoolDigger gives it 4 stars; its ranking percentile was 79 in 2023–2024, 77 in 2024–2025, and 81 in 2025–2026. For additional context, in 2024–2025 the student-teacher ratio was 12.5, and 14% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible. Chronic absenteeism was 6%, below the state’s 14% but slightly above the district’s 5%.
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