Enrollment
331
Elementary
DISTRICT 279 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WARREN TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341698005310
Mt. Horeb School
80 Mount Horeb Road, Warren, NJ 07059 · (908) 753-5300 · Somerset County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL331 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 74% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
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
9.3:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 8.0:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
5%
15 students
DISTRICT 10% · STATE 41%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 51 | 15% |
| Kindergarten | 38 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 43 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 49 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 47 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 57 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 46 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (38) is 17% smaller than its 5th grade class (46).
Student demographics
59%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Mt. Horeb School→Warren Middle School
Based on grade levels within Warren Township School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
70.2%
NJ avg 53.1% . +1.8pp since 2023
Math
77.5%
NJ avg 41.6% . +6.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 78 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 70.2% | 77.5% |
| 2023-24 | 68.4% | 71.1% |
% 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
66.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
63.7%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 64% 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 Mt. Horeb School
Mt. Horeb School's state test result (66.3% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mt. Horeb School this school | 331 | 4.5% | 66.3% |
| Cedar Hill School TOWACO | 329 | 1.5% | 76.4% |
| Bee Meadow School Whippany | 294 | 6.1% | 52.3% |
| Orchard Elementary School RIDGEWOOD | 348 | 5.2% | 82.4% |
| Clara E Coleman School GLEN ROCK | 322 | 0.9% | 74.9% |
| Somerville Elementary School RIDGEWOOD | 394 | 3.8% | 80.8% |
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 Mt. Horeb School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Somerset County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 66.3% | #206 of 1,290 | #18 of 42 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 77.5% | #121 of 1,319 ▲ 73 | #9 of 42 ▲ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 70.2% | #261 of 1,319 ▲ 21 | #11 of 42 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 331 | #982 of 1,562 | #35 of 46 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.3:1 | #189 of 1,390 | #17 of 45 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 58.7% | #553 of 1,392 | #31 of 45 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 4.5% | #1,350 of 1,481 | #40 of 45 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +37.3% | #40 of 545 | #1 of 13 |
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
331
+129 (+64%) vs 2020
-1% since 1990-91, when it was 334
Student : Teacher
9.3:1
was 7.0:1
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 | 331 | 35.5 | 9.3:1 | 5% (15) |
| 2023-24 | 337 | 34.7 | 9.7:1 | 3% (11) |
| 2022-23 | 248 | 32.5 | 7.6:1 | 2% (4) |
| 2020-21 | 202 | 29 | 7.0:1 | 1% (3) |
| 2017-18 | 241 | 27.3 | 8.8:1 | 0% (0) |
| 2015-16 | 266 | 32 | 8.3:1 | 1% (3) |
| 2010-11 | 355 | 30 | 11.8:1 | 0% (0) |
| 2000-01 | 273 | 26 | 10.5:1 | 0% (1) |
| 1990-91 | 334 | 22 | 15.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Mt. Horeb School.
Since 2017-18: students up 37% (241 to 331); teachers up 30% (27.3 to 35.5).
About Mt. Horeb School
Mt. Horeb School is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as an elementary school in Warren, New Jersey. Enrollment is 331 students in 2024-25, and the school serves pre-K through 5.
Enrollment across the 5 schools in Warren Township School District totals 1,663 students.
At Mt. Horeb School, White students make up 59% of the student body. It is also 21% Asian, 13% Hispanic, and 5% multiracial. Pick two students at random and there is a 59% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Federal staffing data show 35.5 full-time-equivalent teachers at Mt. Horeb School and a ratio of 9.3:1. The school has fewer students per teacher than the 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey. The count of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch equals 5% of enrollment. The rate at public schools in Somerset County averages 28%, higher than here.
Measured against New Jersey public elementary schools, Mt. Horeb School receives a B+. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
On BeatsExpectations, Mt. Horeb School is 2.6 points above its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of New Jersey schools.
Somerset County has about 349,846 residents, and the median household income is $140,374, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 58% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 4%. In all, Somerset County has 84 public schools and roughly 51,276 students.
Angelo L. Tomaso School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.4 miles away. The five-mile area around Mt. Horeb School holds at least 8 other public schools. Mt. Horeb School's average proficiency of 66.3% compares with 52.1% for its nearest scored neighbors.
Mt. Horeb School falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal records list enrollment at Mt. Horeb School as 202 in 2020-21 and 331 in 2024-25. A change that size can reflect a shift in the grades the school serves as well as a change in students. The number of students per teacher rose from 7.0 to 9.3 over 4 years.
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Somerset County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
349,846
Census ACS
Median income
$140,374
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
58%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
84
51,276 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Warren Township School District
- Warren Middle SchoolMiddle · 547 students
- Central SchoolElementary · 312 students
- Angelo L. Tomaso SchoolElementary · 261 students
- Woodland SchoolElementary · 212 students
Other schools in Warren
- Watchung Hills Regional High SchoolHigh · 1,653 students
- Warren Middle SchoolMiddle · 547 students
- Central SchoolElementary · 312 students
- Angelo L. Tomaso SchoolElementary · 261 students
- Woodland SchoolElementary · 212 students
- Developmental Learning Center WarrenCombined · 94 students
Nearby schools
- Angelo L. Tomaso School1.4 mi · 261
- Developmental Learning Center Warren1.8 mi · 94
- Central School2.2 mi · 312
- Crim Primary School2.7 mi · 396
- Warren Middle School3.1 mi · 547
- Hazelwood Elementary School3.3 mi · 198
Frequently asked questions
About Mt. Horeb SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Mt. Horeb School?
Mt. Horeb School enrolls approximately 331 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Mt. Horeb School serve?
Mt. Horeb School serves grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Mt. Horeb School have?
Mt. Horeb School employs 36 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.3:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Mt. Horeb School?
At Mt. Horeb School, the student body is approximately 59% White, 13% Hispanic, 2% Black, 21% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Mt. Horeb School?
Mt. Horeb School is overseen by Warren Township School District in Somerset County.
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