Old Farmers Road School
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 71 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 71 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 61% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Old Farmers Road School
Old Farmers Road School is one of the moderately sized elementary schools in LONG VALLEY, New Jersey, run under Washington Township School District, with 345 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.
Washington Township School District comprises 16 schools with combined enrollment of 9,381 students; Old Farmers Road School is among them.
Demographically, Old Farmers Road School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (83%). The remainder is composed of 10% Hispanic, 4% Asian, 2% multiracial. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 68%.
On the resource side, On paper, Old Farmers Road School has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.4:1. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 9% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is south of Morris County's rate of about 19%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Old Farmers Road School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 61.2%; this one delivers 64.2%.
Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Morris County put median household income runs about $137,326, 58% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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), Old Farmers Road School is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is Long Valley Middle School, roughly 1.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Old Farmers Road School comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 62.2%.
Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Old Farmers Road School has ticked up 5%, going from 328 students in 2018 to 345 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 89% to 83%. Class-load math has fell: from 11.7:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 in 2025.
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