Summary:
ZIP code 08901 has 10 elementary schools—nine district schools and one charter—serving grade spans from kindergarten through grade 5 to prekindergarten through grade 8. Across the shared grades 3–5, the schools’ average proficiency was 24% in ELA and 21% in math, compared with state averages of 49% and 47%; the gaps were about 25 and 26 percentage points. The clearest area-wide finding is that every reported grade 3–5 ELA and math result was below its corresponding state rate.
Robert J. Boyler Elementary School was the strongest grade 3 performer, leading ELA at 46% and math at 46%—16 and 18 points ahead of the next school, McKinley Community School. Boyler’s results were still 2 points below the state in ELA and 4 points below in math. At the other end, Livingston Elementary School had the lowest results in five of the six grade 3–5 ELA and math comparisons, including 4% in both grade 3 subjects, and had the lowest grade 5 ELA and science results (10% and 0%). There are notable exceptions beyond the shared grades: Paul Robeson Community School for the Arts reached 58% in grade 8 ELA, 4 points above the state, while Greater Brunswick Charter School led grade 5 math at 28%.
Recent changes were mixed rather than showing broad improvement: the grade 3–5 school average fell by about 3 points in ELA from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while math rose by less than 1 point. Boyler improved by 5 points in ELA and 11 in math; Livingston declined by 11 and 5 points, respectively. SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking percentile rose for Greater Brunswick Charter, from the 13th to the 22nd percentile between 2023–2024 and 2025–2026, while Livingston’s fell from the 4th to the 0th percentile. Contextual measures do not give a simple guide to results: in 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible enrollment was 76% at Boyler and 83% at the charter, while reported student–teacher ratios ranged from 8.1 at McKinley to 18.9 at the charter.
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