Rockaway Meadow Elementary School

Located at 160 EDWARDS ROAD, in PARSIPPANY, New Jersey, Rockaway Meadow Elementary School is a tight-knit primary school that works with 257 students (grades K through 5), operated by Parsippany-Troy Hills Township School District. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 405 students each, so Rockaway Meadow Elementary School sits 37% below that benchmark.

Parsippany-Troy Hills Township School District comprises 14 schools with combined enrollment of 7,027 students; Rockaway Meadow Elementary School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Rockaway Meadow Elementary School lists that the largest single group is Asian at 35%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 34% White, 27% Hispanic, 2% Black. By comparison, Morris County as a whole is about 11% Asian, so the school skews visibly more Asian than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. Around 29% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Morris County runs at roughly 19%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Rockaway Meadow Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 50.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 62.6%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Morris County put the typical household earns roughly $137,326 per year, 58% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. In all, Morris County runs 156 public schools (combined enrollment of about 72,239 students), of which Rockaway Meadow Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Lake Hiawatha Elementary School, around 1.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Rockaway Meadow Elementary School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Rockaway Meadow Elementary School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 66.7%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Rockaway Meadow Elementary School has increased 13%, going from 228 students in 2018 to 257 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 43% to 34%.

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