North Dover Elementary School

North Dover Elementary School is a K-5 school of sprawling scale in DOVER, New Jersey, part of Dover Public School District, serveing 640 students in grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 405 students each, so North Dover Elementary School sits 58% bigger than that benchmark.

Dover Public School District runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 3,208 students. North Dover Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, North Dover Elementary School shows that nearly all students (94%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 2% Black. By comparison, Morris County as a whole is about 16% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. About 75% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Morris County runs at roughly 19%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, North Dover Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.1%, the actual is 21.0%, a residual of -4.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Morris County put median household income runs about $137,326, roughly 58% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Morris County's 156 public schools (combined enrollment of about 72,239 students), North Dover Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Dover High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around North Dover Elementary School. On composite proficiency, North Dover Elementary School comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 35.9%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 7%: 686 students in 2018 compared to 640 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 10.5:1 today.

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