NCES CCD 2024-25 10 schools NJ

Best-Resourced Schools in Morristown, NJ

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10 public K-12 schools in Morristown from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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10
Schools
4,775
Students
59.6/100
Avg Resource Index
9.8:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Morristown has more public-school enrollment than 53% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Morristown High School enrolls 38.0% of Morristown's public-school students. That is enough concentration for one institution to pull the citywide enrollment, staffing, and Resource Index averages toward its own profile. The smaller campuses below should therefore be compared directly rather than inferred from the headline mean; their grade configurations and program footprints can be materially different even inside the same district.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

5 of Morristown's 10 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 1 middle and 1 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Morristown lists only 10 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 22 to 1,816 students, a 83-fold range. In a portfolio this compact, the smallest record may be a specialized or nonstandard setting rather than a miniature version of the largest campus. That distinction affects how ratios and program fields should be read. Compare similarly configured grade levels first; combining the extremes into one city average conceals more than it explains.

City enrollment
Top 47%
School count
Top 41%
Resource Index average
98th percentile
Teacher staffing
99th percentile

Morristown High School accounts for 38.0% of all Morristown public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Morristown-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Morristown school enrollment varies 83× across entities

Morristown school enrollment ranges from 22 students (lowest) to 1,816 students (highest), a spread of 1,794 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Morristown student-teacher ratio is 9.8:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

1 of Morristown's 10 listed schools are charters

10% of the city's listed public-school campuses are reported as charter schools in NCES CCD. Charter status identifies a different governance arrangement; it does not establish admissions availability, academic quality, or the share of city students enrolled in those campuses. Open each school record to compare enrollment and staffing directly.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

# School Score
1. Central Park School 88
2. Normandy Park School 65
3. Sussex Avenue School 64
4. Unity Charter School 63
5. Hillcrest School 62
6. Frelinghuysen Middle School 61
7. Alexander Hamilton 54
8. Thomas Jefferson School 53
9. Lafayette Learning Center 49
10. Morristown High School 37

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Morristown

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Unity Charter School 73.7/100
  2. 2 Normandy Park School 63.4/100
  3. 3 Lafayette Learning Center 63.1/100
  4. 4 Thomas Jefferson School 62.3/100
  5. 5 Frelinghuysen Middle School 61.8/100

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Which Morristown school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Central Park School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Morristown schools in this federal-data comparison at 88/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Morristown, NJ? ▼

Morristown has 10 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,775 students. 1 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 9.8:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.