Mountview Road School

Mountview Road School is a compact elementary-level community in MORRIS PLAINS, New Jersey, overseen by Hanover Township School District. The school serves 276 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 405 students each, so Mountview Road School sits 32% leaner than that benchmark.

Mountview Road School is one of 4 schools operated by Hanover Township School District, a district that hosts 1,234 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Mountview Road School logs that the largest single group is White, at 62% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 18% Hispanic, 10% Asian, 7% multiracial, 4% Black.

In terms of school funding signals, Mountview Road School records 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. About 10% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Morris County's rate of about 19%.

After controlling for student poverty, Mountview Road School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.6%, the actual is 66.3%, a residual of +5.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Morris County put the typical household earns roughly $137,326 per year, roughly 58% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. In all, Morris County runs 156 public schools (combined enrollment of about 72,239 students), of which Mountview Road School is one.

Morris Plains Borough School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Mountview Road School at 3rd of 6; the average score across the group is 67.2%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 17%: 333 students in 2018 compared to 276 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 9% to 18% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 12.0:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 today.

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