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Enrollment
392
Elementary
DISTRICT 341 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PARSIPPANY-TROY HILLS TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341248004448
Littleton Elementary School
250 Brooklawn Drive, Morris Plains, NJ 07950 · (973) 682-2847 · Morris County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL392 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 92% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New Jersey public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.0:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
11%
43 students
DISTRICT 19% · STATE 41%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 53 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 74 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 57 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 59 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 63 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 86 | 22% |
This year's kindergarten class (53) is 38% smaller than its 5th grade class (86).
Student demographics
67%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
74.5%
NJ avg 53.1% . -4.8pp since 2023
Math
76.9%
NJ avg 41.6% . -2.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 75 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 77 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 74.5% | 76.9% |
| 2023-24 | 79.3% | 79.5% |
% Meeting or Exceeding Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: NJSLA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
73.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
60.2%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+13.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 74% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 60% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Littleton Elementary School
Littleton Elementary School's state test result (73.7% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Littleton Elementary School this school | 392 | 11.0% | 73.7% |
| Amsterdam Elementary School Hillsborough | 376 | 10.6% | 65.6% |
| Stony Brook Elementary School PENNINGTON | 395 | 12.7% | 79.3% |
| Littlebrook School PRINCETON | 374 | 10.7% | 76.7% |
| Triangle Elementary School Hillsborough | 362 | 17.7% | 73.3% |
| George Washington School Edgewater | 333 | 12.9% | N/A |
Matched among New Jersey elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Littleton Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Morris County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 73.7% | #104 of 1,290 | #10 of 76 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 76.9% | #136 of 1,319 ▼ 66 | #14 of 77 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 74.5% | #174 of 1,319 ▼ 80 | #17 of 77 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 392 | #731 of 1,562 | #27 of 92 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.3:1 | #1,135 of 1,390 | #85 of 89 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.0% | #247 of 1,392 | #8 of 89 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 11.0% | #1,226 of 1,481 | #48 of 90 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +4.5% | #395 of 545 | #33 of 40 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
392
-30 (-7%) vs 2020
+14% since 1990-91, when it was 345
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
was 15.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 392 | 29.6 | 13.3:1 | 11% (43) |
| 2023-24 | 427 | 29.6 | 14.4:1 | 8% (33) |
| 2022-23 | 411 | 27.7 | 14.9:1 | 6% (24) |
| 2020-21 | 422 | 28 | 15.1:1 | 4% (17) |
| 2017-18 | 375 | 30.1 | 12.5:1 | 5% (19) |
| 2015-16 | 394 | 27 | 14.6:1 | 6% (25) |
| 2010-11 | 392 | 20 | 19.6:1 | 5% (19) |
| 2000-01 | 442 | 22 | 20.1:1 | 2% (10) |
| 1990-91 | 345 | 18 | 19.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Littleton Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 5% (375 to 392); teachers down 2% (30.1 to 29.6).
About Littleton Elementary School
A mid-sized elementary school in Morris Plains, New Jersey, Littleton Elementary School is part of Parsippany-Troy Hills Township School District. It is open to students in pre-K through 5 and enrolls 392 students.
District-wide, Parsippany-Troy Hills Township School District has 14 schools and 7,027 students.
The biggest share of students at Littleton Elementary School, 42%, is Asian. Next come 37% White, 13% Hispanic, 5% Black, and 4% multiracial. That compares with about 11% Asian among all Morris County residents. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 67%.
With 29.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 13.3:1. Statewide, elementary schools in New Jersey average 11.4:1. Roughly 11% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Littleton Elementary School earns an A on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 92% of New Jersey public elementary schools.
Test results at Littleton Elementary School are 13.5 points above what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (73.7% actual, 60.2% predicted).
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Morris County show that median household income comes to about $137,326, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 58% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 3%. Morris County counts 156 public schools with about 72,239 students.
Parsippany Hills High School sits about 0.3 miles from Littleton Elementary School. Littleton Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. The school's 73.7% average proficiency ranks 2nd among 8 nearby schools.
NCES describes the area around Littleton Elementary School as Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment fell by 7% across 4 years, from 422 in 2020-21 to 392 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 15.1:1 to 13.3:1.
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Morris County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
514,528
Census ACS
Median income
$137,326
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
58%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
3%
Below federal line
Schools in county
156
72,239 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Parsippany-Troy Hills Township School District
- Parsippany Hills High SchoolHigh · 1,035 students
- Brooklawn Middle SchoolMiddle · 925 students
- Parsippany High SchoolHigh · 900 students
- Central Middle SchoolMiddle · 755 students
- Lake Hiawatha Elementary SchoolElementary · 445 students
- Knollwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 394 students
Other schools in Morris Plains
- Parsippany Hills High SchoolHigh · 1,035 students
- Morris Plains Borough SchoolMiddle · 398 students
- Alfred Vail SchoolElementary · 342 students
- Mountview Road SchoolElementary · 276 students
- Mountain Way SchoolElementary · 201 students
Other Littleton Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Littleton Elementary. Littleton Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Littleton Elementary SchoolAVONDALE, AZ · 802 students
Nearby schools
- Parsippany Hills High School0.3 mi · 1,035
- Brooklawn Middle School0.5 mi · 925
- Mount Tabor Elementary School0.9 mi · 340
- Lake Parsippany Elementary School1.1 mi · 284
- Morris County School of Technology1.7 mi · 885
- Eastlake Elementary School1.7 mi · 364
Frequently asked questions
About Littleton Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Littleton Elementary School?
Littleton Elementary School enrolls approximately 392 students in grades PK-05.
Is Littleton Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Littleton Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Littleton Elementary School?
Approximately 13.3:1 students per teacher at Littleton Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Littleton Elementary School?
Student demographics at Littleton Elementary School are roughly 37% White, 13% Hispanic, 5% Black, 42% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is Littleton Elementary School in?
Littleton Elementary School is part of Parsippany-Troy Hills Township School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.