Enrollment
365
Elementary
DISTRICT 325 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ROCKAWAY TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341413004520
Stony Brook Elementary School
44 STONY BROOK ROAD, ROCKAWAY, NJ 07866 · (973) 627-2411 · Morris County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL365 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 71% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New Jersey public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
9.2:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.6:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
7%
26 students
DISTRICT 20% · STATE 41%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 50 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 54 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 69 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 58 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 68 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 66 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (50) is 24% smaller than its 5th grade class (66).
Student demographics
51%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 61% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Stony Brook Elementary School→Copeland Middle School
Based on grade levels within Rockaway Township School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
65.4%
NJ avg 53.1% . +3.0pp since 2023
Math
74.6%
NJ avg 41.6% . +0.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 65 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 75 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 65.4% | 74.6% |
| 2023-24 | 62.4% | 73.9% |
% Meeting or Exceeding Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: NJSLA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
64.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
62.3%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 62% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Stony Brook Elementary School
Stony Brook Elementary School's state test result (64.1% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stony Brook Elementary School this school | 365 | 7.1% | 64.1% |
| Valley Road School CLARK | 390 | 7.7% | 52.4% |
| Memorial School Emerson | 374 | 9.4% | 51.0% |
| Dickerson Elementary School Chester | 356 | 6.2% | N/A |
| Highland Elementary School MIDLAND PARK | 306 | 7.8% | 65.7% |
| Brookside Elementary School WESTWOOD | 390 | 12.6% | 65.2% |
Matched among New Jersey elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Stony Brook Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Morris County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 64.1% | #264 of 1,290 | #36 of 76 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 74.6% | #170 of 1,319 ▼ 29 | #19 of 77 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 65.4% | #376 of 1,319 ▲ 24 | #48 of 77 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 365 | #825 of 1,562 | #35 of 92 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.2:1 | #168 of 1,390 | #10 of 89 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 51.1% | #777 of 1,392 | #50 of 89 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 7.1% | #1,313 of 1,481 | #60 of 90 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +1.4% | #496 of 545 | #39 of 40 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
365
-16 (-4%) vs 2020
+27% since 1990-91, when it was 288
Student : Teacher
9.2:1
was 10.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 365 | 39.6 | 9.2:1 | 7% (26) |
| 2023-24 | 382 | 39.6 | 9.7:1 | 3% (13) |
| 2022-23 | 391 | 38.6 | 10.1:1 | 5% (19) |
| 2020-21 | 381 | 35 | 10.9:1 | 4% (15) |
| 2017-18 | 360 | 33 | 10.9:1 | 3% (10) |
| 2015-16 | 321 | 32 | 10.0:1 | 5% (17) |
| 2010-11 | 405 | 19 | 21.3:1 | 4% (18) |
| 2000-01 | 430 | 26 | 16.5:1 | 3% (13) |
| 1990-91 | 288 | 17 | 16.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Stony Brook Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 1% (360 to 365); teachers up 20% (33 to 39.6).
About Stony Brook Elementary School
Stony Brook Elementary School is an elementary school in ROCKAWAY, New Jersey, and it is part of Rockaway Township School District. Students in kindergarten through 5 make up the school's enrollment of 365 students.
Rockaway Township School District includes 6 schools. Together they enroll 2,425 students.
The share of White students at Stony Brook Elementary School is 66%, a majority. Smaller groups are 22% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, and 4% Asian. Census estimates put Morris County at about 68% White, close to the school's figure. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 51%.
Stony Brook Elementary School has 39.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 9.2:1. The school's 9.2:1 compares with an average of 11.4:1 for elementary schools in New Jersey. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 7%. That rate is below the 19% average among public schools in Morris County.
On the allk12 Grade, Stony Brook Elementary School lands at B+, ahead of 71% of New Jersey public elementary schools.
Based on student poverty, the model expects 62.3% at Stony Brook Elementary School; the school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 64.1%.
In Morris County, where the school is located, the median household earns about $137,326 a year, roughly 58% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 3%. Public schools in Morris County number 156, with about 72,239 students.
Copeland Middle School sits about 0.2 miles from Stony Brook Elementary School. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. By average proficiency, Stony Brook Elementary School is 1st among 8 schools close by.
The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Large).
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 4% drop, from 381 to 365. The student-to-teacher ratio dropped from 10.9:1 in 2020-21 to 9.2:1 in 2024-25.
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Morris County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
514,528
Census ACS
Median income
$137,326
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
58%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
3%
Below federal line
Schools in county
156
72,239 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Rockaway Township School District
- Copeland Middle SchoolMiddle · 799 students
- Catherine A Dwyer Elementary SchoolElementary · 346 students
- Birchwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 314 students
- Katharine D Malone Elementary SchoolElementary · 303 students
- Dennis B O'Brien Elementary SchoolElementary · 298 students
Other schools in ROCKAWAY
- Morris Knolls High SchoolHigh · 1,450 students
- Morris Hills High SchoolHigh · 1,140 students
- Copeland Middle SchoolMiddle · 799 students
- Katharine D Malone Elementary SchoolElementary · 303 students
- Thomas Jefferson Middle SchoolMiddle · 299 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolElementary · 272 students
Other Stony Brook Elementary schools
3 other US public schools in 3 states are named Stony Brook Elementary. Stony Brook Elementary School is the 3rd largest of the 4.
- Stony Brook Elementary SchoolPENNINGTON, NJ · 395 students
- Stony Brook Elementary SchoolYork, PA · 484 students
- Stony Brook ElementaryBrewster, MA · 242 students
Nearby schools
- Copeland Middle School0.2 mi · 799
- Catherine A Dwyer Elementary School1.2 mi · 346
- Dennis B O'Brien Elementary School1.3 mi · 298
- Lincoln Elementary School1.3 mi · 272
- Thomas Jefferson Middle School1.4 mi · 299
- Birchwood Elementary School1.4 mi · 314
Frequently asked questions
About Stony Brook Elementary SchoolHow large is Stony Brook Elementary School?
Stony Brook Elementary School enrolls approximately 365 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Stony Brook Elementary School serve?
Stony Brook Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Stony Brook Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Stony Brook Elementary School is approximately 9.2:1 (40 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Stony Brook Elementary School?
At Stony Brook Elementary School, the student body is approximately 66% White, 22% Hispanic, 1% Black, 4% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is Stony Brook Elementary School public or private?
Stony Brook Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Rockaway Township School District.
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