Mountain View Elementary School

Mountain View Elementary School is an elementary-level community of mid-tier scale in FLANDERS, New Jersey, one of the schools within Mount Olive Township School District, hosting 565 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 40% above the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 405 students.

Mountain View Elementary School is one of 6 schools operated by Mount Olive Township School District, a district that enrolls 4,776 students overall.

On demographics, Mountain View Elementary School logs that the most-represented group is White (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 25% Hispanic, 12% Asian, 5% Black, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Morris County as a whole is about 68% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.9:1. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 21% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Mountain View Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 54.5%; this one delivers 54.4%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Morris County put 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%. Across Morris County's 156 public schools (combined enrollment of about 72,239 students), Mountain View Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

West Morris Central High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mountain View Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Mountain View Elementary School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 53.3%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Five-year trend. Mountain View Elementary School's enrollment has edged up 31% since 2018, when it stood at 430 (now 565). Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 14% to 25%. Class-load math has tightened: from 12.5:1 in 2018 to 9.9:1 in 2025.

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