Mount Tabor Elementary School

Located at 900 PARK RD & ROUTE 53, in MOUNT TABOR, New Jersey, Mount Tabor Elementary School is a low-enrollment primary school that instructs 340 students (grades K through 5), run under Parsippany-Troy Hills Township School District.

Across the 14 schools in Parsippany-Troy Hills Township School District (7,027 students total), Mount Tabor Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Mount Tabor Elementary School records that the largest single group is Asian at 45%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 31% White, 17% Hispanic, 4% Black, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Morris County as a whole is about 11% Asian, so the school skews noticeably more Asian than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Mount Tabor Elementary School records 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. About 17% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Mount Tabor Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of New Jersey public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 56.7%; Mount Tabor Elementary School posts 72.8%, +16.1 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, Morris County reports that median household earnings sit near $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 Tabor Elementary School is one.

Morris County School of Technology is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Mount Tabor Elementary School comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 67.2%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Mount Tabor Elementary School's enrollment has declined 23% since 2018, when it stood at 440 (now 340). Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 10% to 17%.

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