Summary:
ZIP code 08352 has one school, Deerfield Township Elementary School, serving PK–8 and enrolling 325 students; its reported student–teacher ratio was 9 to 1 in 2024–2025. In 2025–2026, the school’s equally weighted grade averages were 33% in ELA and 19% in math, compared with 51% and 40% statewide. The most important finding is that ELA and math results were below the state result in every tested grade.
Because Deerfield is the only school in the ZIP, there is no local school leader or bottom school to compare. Its strongest relative results were Algebra I end-of-course proficiency, at 69% versus 40% statewide—29 percentage points higher—and fifth-grade science, about 1 point below the state (26% versus 27%). The weakest comparisons were third-grade ELA, 19% versus 48% statewide, and third-grade math, 19% versus 49%; those gaps were 29 and 30 points. Eighth-grade math was the school’s lowest math result, at 8% versus 23% statewide.
Year-to-year results were mixed: the ELA grade average rose by 4 points, from 29% in 2024–2025 to 33% in 2025–2026, while the math average fell by 7 points, from 26% to 19%. The two-grade science average rose from 6% to 20%, bringing its gap with the state closer, from 19 points to 3. Algebra I end-of-course results also climbed from 35% to 69%. SchoolDigger ranks the school at 1,067 of 1,331, in the 20th percentile, with 1 star for 2025–2026; its percentile ranking declined from 24th in 2023–2024 to 21st in 2024–2025. As context, 52% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025. With just one school in the ZIP, these figures cannot show how it compares with other local schools.
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