Sandyston Walpack Consolidated School

Located at 100 ROUTE 560, in LAYTON, New Jersey, Sandyston Walpack Consolidated School is a micro-enrollment elementary campus that instructs 130 students (grades pre-K through 6), operated by Sandyston-Walpack Consolidated School District. That puts it 68% smaller than the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 405 students.

Sandyston Walpack Consolidated School sits inside Sandyston-Walpack Consolidated School District, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

Demographically, Sandyston Walpack Consolidated School shows that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 8% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. Around 23% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Sandyston Walpack Consolidated School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.5%, the actual is 49.2%, a residual of -4.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Sussex County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $116,186 per year, roughly 40% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Sussex County's 46 public schools (combined enrollment of about 19,579 students), Sandyston Walpack Consolidated School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Montague Township School, around 5.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Sandyston Walpack Consolidated School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 48.6%.

Sandyston Walpack Consolidated School operates from an outlying location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 8%: 141 students in 2018 compared to 130 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 88% to 82%. Class-load math has widened: from 8.3:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, the feed for Sandyston Walpack Consolidated School typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.