Nixon Elementary School

Nixon Elementary School is a K-5 school of modestly sized scale in LANDING, New Jersey, one of the schools within Roxbury Township School District, caters to 261 students in grades pre-K through 4. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 405 students each, so Nixon Elementary School sits 36% below that benchmark.

Roxbury Township School District runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 3,359 students. Nixon Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Nixon Elementary School logs that 48% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 38% Hispanic, 6% Black, 5% Asian, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Morris County as a whole is about 68% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Nixon Elementary School lists 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. About 37% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Morris County (around 19%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Nixon Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.8%, the actual is 40.3%, a residual of -5.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, Morris County reports that median household earnings sit near $137,326, roughly 58% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 Nixon Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Mount Arlington Public School, around 0.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Nixon Elementary School comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 37.4%.

Nixon Elementary School operates from an outer-ring location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 5%: 275 students in 2018 compared to 261 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 25% to 38%.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.