Lebanon Borough School
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 50 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 56% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Lebanon Borough School
Lebanon Borough School, a tiny K-5 school in LEBANON, New Jersey, part of Lebanon Borough School District, teaches 88 students, covering grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 78% leaner than the state mean of about 405.
Lebanon Borough School is a school of Lebanon Borough School District, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.
On the student-mix side, Lebanon Borough School shows that White students make up the majority at 76%. Beyond that, the school records 18% Hispanic, 5% Asian.
Looking at school resources, The school reports having 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 6.4:1. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 16% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lebanon Borough School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 57.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 56.4%.
Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Hunterdon County put median household earnings sit near $141,715, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. Across Hunterdon County's 55 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,056 students), Lebanon Borough School is one campus in the mix.
Round Valley is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lebanon Borough School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 60.8%.
Lebanon Borough School operates from an outer-ring location.
Five-year trend. Lebanon Borough School's enrollment has ticked down 18% since 2018, when it stood at 107 (now 88). Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 7% to 18%.
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