Mount Olive High School

Located at 18 COREY ROAD, in FLANDERS, New Jersey, Mount Olive High School is a well-populated high school that works with 1,520 students (grades 9 through 12), operated by Mount Olive Township School District. Compared to the state average of about 929 students per school, that is 64% bigger than typical.

Mount Olive Township School District comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 4,776 students; Mount Olive High School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Mount Olive High School logs that 52% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder looks like 21% Hispanic, 13% Asian, 9% Black, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 68% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 126 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 12.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 22% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Mount Olive High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 53.9%; this one delivers 45.7%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Morris County) reports that median household income runs about $137,326, about 58% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. In all, Morris County runs 156 public schools (combined enrollment of about 72,239 students), of which Mount Olive High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Chester M. Stephens Elementary School, around 0.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mount Olive High School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 50.8%.

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

Over the past 7-year window. Mount Olive High School's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 1,526 (now 1,520). White enrollment moved from 68% to 52% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 today.

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