Stony Brook Elementary School

As a mid-tier elementary school in ROCKAWAY, New Jersey, Stony Brook Elementary School instructs 365 students from grades K through 5, one of the schools within Rockaway Township School District.

Within Rockaway Township School District, which oversees 6 schools and 2,425 students, Stony Brook Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Stony Brook Elementary School records that the largest single group is White, at 66% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 22% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 4% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with Morris County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Stony Brook Elementary School shows 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. Roughly 7% of students at Stony Brook Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Morris County (around 19%), the school's rate is south of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Stony Brook Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.3%, the actual is 64.1%, a residual of +1.8 points.

In the surrounding community, Morris County reports that the typical household earns roughly $137,326 per year, about 58% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. Stony Brook Elementary School is one of 156 public schools in Morris County (combined enrollment of about 72,239 students).

Copeland Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Stony Brook Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 50.6%.

Stony Brook Elementary School operates from a suburban location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 360 students in 2018 compared to 365 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 16% to 22%. Class-load math has tightened: from 10.9:1 in 2018 to 9.2:1 in 2025.

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