Florence M. Burd

Florence M. Burd serves 255 students in pre-kindergarten through fourth grade in Newton, New Jersey. It earns a composite score of 9.0 out of 10 — Exceptional — built on a near-perfect growth score of 9.9.

That growth mark signals that students here are gaining academic ground faster than at virtually every school in the state, regardless of where they started. The data back that pattern. Florence M.

Burd outperforms 98% of New Jersey's public schools, a position that places it 54th out of 2,463 statewide. Within Newton, it ranks first among the city's eight public schools. A student-teacher ratio of 9.1 to 1 keeps class sizes tight, giving teachers the capacity to move individual students forward rather than pace to the middle.

The academic score of 7.1 is solid on its own — but the outsized growth score suggests instruction here is accelerating students well above expectations. For families evaluating elementary options, Florence M. Burd ranks 34th among 1,496 elementary schools in New Jersey.

Parents looking for a school where students don't just perform — but visibly improve — will find that combination hard to match.

With a student-teacher ratio of 9.1:1, Florence M. Burd offers a notably low ratio compared to the national average. This typically means smaller class sizes and more opportunities for one-on-one interaction between students and teachers.