Enrollment
346
Elementary
DISTRICT 325 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ROCKAWAY TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341413004514
Catherine A Dwyer Elementary School
665 MT HOPE AVENUE, WHARTON, NJ 07885 · (973) 361-7450 · Morris County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL346 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 64% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New Jersey public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
9.7:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.6:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
27%
95 students
DISTRICT 20% · STATE 41%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 52 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 54 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 66 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 52 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 61 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 61 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (52) is 15% smaller than its 5th grade class (61).
Student demographics
58%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 61% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Catherine A Dwyer Elementary School→Copeland Middle School
Based on grade levels within Rockaway Township School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
57.4%
NJ avg 53.1% . -3.7pp since 2023
Math
60.1%
NJ avg 41.6% . -2.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 57 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 60 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 57.4% | 60.1% |
| 2023-24 | 61.1% | 62.8% |
% Meeting or Exceeding Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: NJSLA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
54.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
51.1%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New Jersey's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Catherine A Dwyer Elementary School
Catherine A Dwyer Elementary School's state test result (54.5% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catherine A Dwyer Elementary School this school | 346 | 27.5% | 54.5% |
| Helen I. Smith School SADDLE BROOK | 340 | 29.1% | 45.3% |
| Newbury Early Learning Center HOWELL | 365 | 28.8% | 47.0% |
| Aaron Decker School BUTLER | 383 | 26.9% | 49.5% |
| Memorial Elementary School NORTH HALEDON | 349 | 25.5% | 44.5% |
| Greenville Elementary School HOWELL | 345 | 29.6% | 48.9% |
Matched among New Jersey elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Catherine A Dwyer Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Morris County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 54.5% | #438 of 1,290 | #52 of 76 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 60.1% | #404 of 1,319 ▼ 76 | #53 of 77 ▼ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 57.4% | #549 of 1,319 ▼ 116 | #61 of 77 ▼ 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 346 | #917 of 1,562 | #42 of 92 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.7:1 | #281 of 1,390 | #20 of 89 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 58.1% | #575 of 1,392 | #32 of 89 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 27.5% | #895 of 1,481 | #21 of 90 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +13.4% | #180 of 545 | #16 of 40 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
346
+51 (+17%) vs 2020
-2% since 1990-91, when it was 354
Student : Teacher
9.7:1
was 10.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 346 | 35.6 | 9.7:1 | 27% (95) |
| 2023-24 | 309 | 34.6 | 8.9:1 | 12% (37) |
| 2022-23 | 322 | 33.4 | 9.6:1 | 15% (48) |
| 2020-21 | 295 | 28 | 10.5:1 | 16% (48) |
| 2017-18 | 305 | 30 | 10.2:1 | 12% (37) |
| 2015-16 | 319 | 27 | 11.8:1 | 15% (49) |
| 2010-11 | 336 | 23 | 14.6:1 | 12% (40) |
| 2000-01 | 365 | 24 | 15.2:1 | 5% (18) |
| 1990-91 | 354 | 24 | 14.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Catherine A Dwyer Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 13% (305 to 346); teachers up 19% (30 to 35.6).
About Catherine A Dwyer Elementary School
Catherine A Dwyer Elementary School is an elementary school in WHARTON, New Jersey, and it is part of Rockaway Township School District. The school runs kindergarten through 5 and enrolls 346 students.
Rockaway Township School District has 6 schools; together they serve 2,425 students.
More than half of enrollment at Catherine A Dwyer Elementary School is White: 52%. Enrollment also includes 38% Hispanic, 5% Asian, and 4% multiracial. The school's White share is 16 points below the 68% share among Morris County residents. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 58%.
For every teacher at Catherine A Dwyer Elementary School, there are about 9.7 students; the school has 35.6 full-time-equivalent teachers. Compared with the 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey, this school's ratio is lower. The eligibility rate for free or reduced-price meals is 27%. The average for public schools in Morris County is 19%.
Catherine A Dwyer Elementary School earns a B on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 64% of New Jersey public elementary schools.
On BeatsExpectations, Catherine A Dwyer Elementary School is 3.4 points above its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of New Jersey schools.
The school's county is Morris County. According to Census Bureau estimates, median household income comes to about $137,326, 58% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 3% of people live in poverty. There are 156 public schools in the county, enrolling about 72,239, Catherine A Dwyer Elementary School among them.
Dennis B O'Brien Elementary School, about 0.9 miles away, is the closest public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among the 9 closest schools with test data, this one included, Catherine A Dwyer Elementary School ranks 2nd on average proficiency.
The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Large).
Federal enrollment counts rose from 295 (2020-21) to 346 (2024-25).
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Morris County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
514,528
Census ACS
Median income
$137,326
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
58%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
3%
Below federal line
Schools in county
156
72,239 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Rockaway Township School District
- Copeland Middle SchoolMiddle · 799 students
- Stony Brook Elementary SchoolElementary · 365 students
- Birchwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 314 students
- Katharine D Malone Elementary SchoolElementary · 303 students
- Dennis B O'Brien Elementary SchoolElementary · 298 students
Other schools in WHARTON
- Marie V. Duffy Elementary SchoolElementary · 434 students
- Alfred C. MacKinnon Middle SchoolMiddle · 265 students
Nearby schools
- Dennis B O'Brien Elementary School0.9 mi · 298
- Copeland Middle School1.2 mi · 799
- Stony Brook Elementary School1.2 mi · 365
- Birchwood Elementary School1.6 mi · 314
- Dover High School1.9 mi · 1,167
- North Dover Elementary School2.1 mi · 640
Frequently asked questions
About Catherine A Dwyer Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Catherine A Dwyer Elementary School?
Catherine A Dwyer Elementary School enrolls approximately 346 students in grades KG-05.
Is Catherine A Dwyer Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Catherine A Dwyer Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at Catherine A Dwyer Elementary School?
Approximately 9.7:1 students per teacher at Catherine A Dwyer Elementary School.
How diverse is Catherine A Dwyer Elementary School?
Catherine A Dwyer Elementary School reports a student body of 52% White, 38% Hispanic, 1% Black, 5% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is Catherine A Dwyer Elementary School in?
Catherine A Dwyer Elementary School is part of Rockaway Township School District.
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