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Center Grove School
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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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