Blairstown Elementary School

Set in BLAIRSTOWN, New Jersey, Blairstown Elementary School is a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus, run under Blairstown Elementary Township School District. It enrolls 418 students across grades pre-K through 6.

Blairstown Elementary School is a school of Blairstown Elementary Township School District, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

On demographics, Blairstown Elementary School shows that White students make up the majority at 79%. The remainder comes out to 11% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Warren County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.6:1. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 18% of students at Blairstown Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Warren County runs at roughly 36%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Blairstown Elementary School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 56.2%; actual is 37.4%, a gap of -18.9 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Warren County) reports that median household earnings sit near $100,869, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Warren County runs 41 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,462 students), of which Blairstown Elementary School is one.

Ridge and Valley Charter School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Blairstown Elementary School at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 49.6%.

Blairstown Elementary School operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Blairstown Elementary School's enrollment has decreased 10% since 2018, when it stood at 465 (now 418). White enrollment moved from 85% to 79% across the same window.

On this page, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.