Intervale Elementary School

Intervale Elementary School operates as a low-enrollment elementary campus in Boonton, New Jersey, run under Parsippany-Troy Hills Township School District. Current enrollment sits at 287 students spanning grades K through 5. That puts it 29% below the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 405 students.

Parsippany-Troy Hills Township School District runs 14 schools in total, collectively educating 7,027 students. Intervale Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Intervale Elementary School reports that the most-represented group is Asian (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 31% White, 18% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Black. That is meaningfully more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 11%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Intervale Elementary School has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 19% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Intervale Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 55.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 64.8%.

Around the school, census data for Morris County shows median household income runs about $137,326, roughly 58% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. In all, Morris County runs 156 public schools (combined enrollment of about 72,239 students), of which Intervale Elementary School is one.

Briarcliff Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Intervale Elementary School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 69.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 287 students in 2018 compared to 287 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 46% to 31% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 12.9:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 today.

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