Willow Grove Elementary School

Located at 601 WILLOW GROVE STREET, in HACKETTSTOWN, New Jersey, Willow Grove Elementary School is an intimate elementary campus that teaches 320 students (grades 2 through 4), run under Hackettstown Public School District. Enrollment runs roughly 21% leaner than the state mean of about 405.

Hackettstown Public School District runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,978 students. Willow Grove Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Willow Grove Elementary School reports that 49% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 42% White, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial, 2% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 13%.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. Roughly 45% of students at Willow Grove Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Warren County runs at roughly 36%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Willow Grove Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.5%, the actual is 52.7%, a residual of +11.2 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Warren County) reports that median household earnings sit near $100,869, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Willow Grove Elementary School is one of 41 public schools in Warren County (combined enrollment of about 15,462 students).

Nearest neighbor: Hackettstown Middle School, around 1.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Willow Grove Elementary School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Willow Grove Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 51.9%.

Willow Grove Elementary School operates from an outer-ring location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 26%: 253 students in 2018 compared to 320 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 23% to 49% over that span.

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