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Center Grove School
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Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 72 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 69 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 69% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 61% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Center Grove School
Located at 25 SCHOOL HOUSE ROAD, in RANDOLPH, New Jersey, Center Grove School is a reasonably sized primary school that enrolls 542 students (grades pre-K through 5), part of Randolph Township School District. Compared to the state average of about 405 students per school, that is 34% above typical.
Randolph Township School District comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 4,223 students; Center Grove School is among them.
In terms of who attends, Center Grove School logs that the largest single group is White, at 58% of enrollment. The remainder is composed of 21% Hispanic, 13% Asian, 4% multiracial, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 68% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, On paper, Center Grove School has 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting Center Grove School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 10% of students at Center Grove 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 lower than the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, Center Grove School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 60.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 69.5%.
Around the school, community-level numbers for Morris County indicate median household income runs about $137,326, 58% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. Across Morris County's 156 public schools (combined enrollment of about 72,239 students), Center Grove School is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Randolph High School, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Center Grove School comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 51.4%.
Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 9%: 496 students in 2018 compared to 542 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 15% to 21%.
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- Randolph High SchoolHigh · 1,275 students
- Randolph Middle SchoolMiddle · 959 students
- Ironia SchoolElementary · 491 students
- Shongum SchoolElementary · 482 students
- Fernbrook SchoolElementary · 474 students
- Randolph High School0.3 mi · 1,275
- Randolph Middle School0.4 mi · 959
- Fernbrook School1.6 mi · 474
- Shongum School1.6 mi · 482
- Ironia School2.3 mi · 491
- Academy Street Elementary School2.4 mi · 509