Rockaway Valley School

Rockaway Valley School is a reasonably sized elementary-level community in BOONTON TOWNSHIP, New Jersey, part of Boonton Township School District. The school instructs 396 students in grades pre-K through 8.

Operationally, Rockaway Valley School answers to Boonton Township School District, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Rockaway Valley School logs that the largest single group is White, at 77% of enrollment; the rest looks like 11% Hispanic, 10% Asian, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 68% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Rockaway Valley School has 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. Roughly 2% of students at Rockaway Valley School qualify 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 meaningfully below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Rockaway Valley School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.1%, the actual is 68.8%, a residual of +3.7 points.

Around the school, Morris County reports that the typical household earns roughly $137,326 per year, roughly 58% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 Valley School is one.

The closest other public school is School Street School, roughly 1.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Rockaway Valley School comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 64.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 7%: 427 students in 2018 compared to 396 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 87% to 77%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 10.7:1 in 2018 to 9.2:1 today.

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