Summary:
ZIP code 08341 has one listed school, Dr. J.P. Cleary Elementary School, serving 320 students in grades 3–5 in the Buena Regional School District. In 2025–2026, the school’s proficiency rates were below the state’s in every reported grade and subject. The biggest concern is mathematics: the school averaged 17% proficient across grades 3–5, compared with 47% statewide—a 30-point gap.
There is no meaningful top-to-bottom comparison among local schools because Dr. J.P. Cleary is the only school listed; it is both the highest and lowest by default. Within the school, grade 5 ELA was the strongest 2025–2026 result, at 41% proficient versus 52% statewide, an 11-point gap. Grade 5 math was weakest: 11% versus 46% statewide, a 35-point gap. ELA was stronger overall than math, but its average was still 33% compared with 49% statewide, a 15-point shortfall.
Results over time show a mixed pattern: ELA held steady at a 33% average from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, and its average gap with the state narrowed from 17 to 15 points; mathematics fell from a 22% to a 17% average, while its gap widened from 25 to 30 points. Grade 5 science also fell, from 18% to 13%, and its state gap grew from 12 to 15 points. SchoolDigger gives the school 1 star and ranks it in the 16th percentile statewide for 2025–2026, down from the 19th percentile in 2023–2024. In 2024–2025, chronic absenteeism was 20% at the school, compared with 14% statewide and 23% in the district; 62% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible, and the student–teacher ratio was 13.7:1. Because only one school is listed, these figures cannot show differences among schools in the ZIP code.
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