Catherine A Dwyer Elementary School

As a reasonably sized primary school in WHARTON, New Jersey, Catherine A Dwyer Elementary School educates 346 students from grades K through 5, run under Rockaway Township School District.

Rockaway Township School District comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 2,425 students; Catherine A Dwyer Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Catherine A Dwyer Elementary School reports that the largest single group is White at 52%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest is composed of 38% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 4% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 68%.

In terms of school funding signals, Catherine A Dwyer Elementary School records 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.7:1. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 27% of students at Catherine A Dwyer Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Morris County runs at roughly 19%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Catherine A Dwyer Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 51.1%; this one delivers 54.5%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Morris County) records that the typical household earns roughly $137,326 per year, 58% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Morris County's 156 public schools (combined enrollment of about 72,239 students), Catherine A Dwyer Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Dennis B O'Brien Elementary School, around 0.9 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Catherine A Dwyer Elementary School comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 40.6%.

Catherine A Dwyer Elementary School operates from a commuter-belt location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Catherine A Dwyer Elementary School has climbed 13%, going from 305 students in 2018 to 346 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 22% to 38%.

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