Delaware Township School, Sergeantsville NJ

Original Research by School Decision on Delaware Township School

Delaware Township School serves students from prekindergarten through eighth grade in Sergeantsville, a small unincorporated crossroads village within rural Hunterdon County. The school is the sole building in the Delaware Township School District, and because it ends at eighth grade, families send their children elsewhere for high school. There is no graduation rate to report here, as the school does not serve those grades.

The community around the school is historically preserved and overwhelmingly residential. Sergeantsville has no modern downtown or major employers; its 18th- and 19th-century stone and frame dwellings cluster around a single intersection. The village saw little industrial development even in its heyday, and after its creamery closed in the late 1930s the local economy stagnated. That stagnation preserved the historic built fabric, and the village center was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Today the area is quiet and car-dependent beyond the immediate crossroads. No new housing developments or growth pressures are evident. For a family considering this school, the setting suggests a stable, low-change environment where the town itself is unlikely to shift character quickly.

The school enrolls a moderate number of students across its ten grades. The student body is predominantly white, with a smaller Hispanic population and very small shares of Asian, Black, and multiracial students. A very small proportion of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which is an indicator that the community served is, broadly, one of low poverty. Data on students with disabilities and English learners was not available in the source material, so a parent may want to ask the school directly about those support structures.

On state assessments, the school’s results vary notably by grade and subject. In English language arts, the majority of tested grades show proficiency rates that are solid and fairly consistent across the elementary and middle school years. In math, the picture is more uneven. Several grades perform at a level that is respectable, but the eighth-grade math result is low, as is the eighth-grade science result. That drop-off in the final year of middle school is a clear soft spot in the school’s academic profile. A family with a child approaching eighth grade may want to discuss with the school how math and science instruction is structured in those upper grades, and what support or acceleration options exist. Overall, the school’s combined proficiency across all subjects and grades places it above the midpoint when compared to other districts in Hunterdon County.

The school does not serve high school grades, so there are no course offerings in AP, dual credit, or career pathways to assess. The district brief turned up no recent parent-relevant changes such as boundary shifts, program launches, or leadership turnover. No data on discipline, staffing, attendance, or chronic absenteeism was available. A parent evaluating this school is working mostly from test results and the character of the community, with several dimensions of school quality simply not reported in the data provided.

This is a school that fits a family seeking a small, rural, PK-through-8 setting in a historically quiet township, with the understanding that high school will be elsewhere and that the final year of math and science may need attention. The surrounding area is not growing, not dense, and not commercially active. The school’s academic performance is generally solid for the elementary and early middle grades, with a notable challenge in eighth grade that warrants a conversation.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 351%

School 51% · District 51%

▲ 1 pts above state median · ▼ 10 pts below county median

Grade 463%

School 63% · District 63%

▲ 17 pts above state median · ▲ 11 pts above county median

Grade 556%

School 56% · District 56%

▲ 14 pts above state median · ▲ 6 pts above county median

Grade 666%

School 66% · District 66%

▲ 32 pts above state median · ▲ 19 pts above county median

Grade 751%

School 51% · District 51%

▲ 17 pts above state median · ▲ 1 pts above county median

Grade 817%

School 17% · District 17%

even with state median · ▼ 6 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 339%

School 39% · District 39%

▼ 6 pts below state median · ▼ 14 pts below county median

Grade 463%

School 63% · District 63%

▲ 7 pts above state median · even with county median

Grade 559%

School 59% · District 59%

▲ 6 pts above state median · ▼ 1 pts below county median

Grade 653%

School 53% · District 53%

▼ 1 pts below state median · ▼ 8 pts below county median

Grade 765%

School 65% · District 65%

▲ 8 pts above state median · ▼ 7 pts below county median

Grade 863%

School 63% · District 63%

▲ 5 pts above state median · ▼ 12 pts below county median

Science

Grade 559%

School 59% · District 59%

▲ 32 pts above state median · ▲ 19 pts above county median

Grade 819%

School 19% · District 19%

▲ 6 pts above state median · ▼ 11 pts below county median

This schoolDelaware Township School District, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.