Birchwood Elementary School

Birchwood Elementary School operates as a modestly sized elementary campus in DOVER, New Jersey, one of the schools within Rockaway Township School District. Current enrollment sits at 314 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 405 students each, so Birchwood Elementary School sits 22% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 6 schools in Rockaway Township School District (2,425 students total), Birchwood Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Birchwood Elementary School records that the largest single group is White at 50%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 34% Hispanic, 7% Asian, 6% multiracial, 3% Black. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 68%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting Birchwood Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 21% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Birchwood Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.7%, the actual is 53.8%, a residual of -0.8 points.

Around the school, Morris County reports that median household earnings sit near $137,326, roughly 58% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. Birchwood Elementary School is one of 156 public schools in Morris County (combined enrollment of about 72,239 students).

Dennis B O'Brien Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Birchwood Elementary School at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 39.1%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Birchwood Elementary School's enrollment has expanded 5% since 2018, when it stood at 300 (now 314). Over the same period, the White share expanded from 44% to 50%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 10.1:1 today.

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