Valley Road School

Valley Road School, a medium-sized K-5 school in STANHOPE, New Jersey, one of the schools within Stanhope School District, educates 346 students, covering grades pre-K through 8.

Valley Road School is a school of Stanhope School District, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

Looking at the student body, Valley Road School shows that the most-represented group is White (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 37% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Sussex County as a whole is about 82% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school employs 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.3:1. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 24% of students at Valley Road School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Valley Road School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 53.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 48.1%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Sussex County) shows 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. Valley Road School is one of 46 public schools in Sussex County (combined enrollment of about 19,579 students).

The closest other public school is Lenape Valley Regional High School, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Valley Road School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Valley Road School at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 38.9%.

Valley Road School operates from a residential location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 7%: 322 students in 2018 compared to 346 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 75% to 53%.

On allk12, the feed for Valley Road School typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.