Harding Township School

Harding Township School is a tight-knit primary school in NEW VERNON, New Jersey, operated by Harding Township School District. The school educates 291 students in grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 28% smaller than the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 405 students.

Operationally, Harding Township School answers to Harding Township School District, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

Demographically, Harding Township School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (83%); the rest breaks down as 8% multiracial, 7% Asian, 2% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 68% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 6.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. Roughly 3% of students at Harding Township School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Morris County (around 19%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Harding Township School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.7%, the actual is 73.3%, a residual of +8.7 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Morris County indicate the typical household earns roughly $137,326 per year, 58% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. Harding Township School is one of 156 public schools in Morris County (combined enrollment of about 72,239 students).

Thomas Jefferson School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Harding Township School comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 65.6%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Harding Township School has contracted 6%, going from 308 students in 2018 to 291 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 7.9:1 in 2018 to 6.7:1 in 2025.

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