Catherine A Dwyer Elementary School
Wharton, NJ · Elementary School
Catherine A Dwyer Elementary School is a elementary school in Wharton, NJ with 322 students enrolled and a 64% proficiency rate. Part of Rockaway Township School District. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
Catherine A Dwyer Elementary School is a elementary school located in Wharton, New Jersey. The school serves 322 students. The student-to-teacher ratio is 9.8:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 64% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading.
15% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Catherine A Dwyer Elementary School is part of the Rockaway Township School District in New Jersey.
How This School Compares
Catherine A Dwyer Elementary School has 322 students enrolled, making it smaller than the average school in Rockaway Township School District (397 students). Its 64% proficiency rate is 5 percentage points above the district average of 59%. Compared to the New Jersey state average of 56%, the school performs 7 points higher. With a 9.8:1 student-teacher ratio, it offers smaller class sizes than the national average.
Frequently Asked Questions
Catherine A Dwyer Elementary School has 322 students enrolled. The student-to-teacher ratio is 9.8:1.
According to EDFacts data, 64% of students at Catherine A Dwyer Elementary School meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Catherine A Dwyer Elementary School is part of the Rockaway Township School District in Wharton, New Jersey. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
this entity is one of the data points covered by this site’s U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment dataset. The detail above comes directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the context that follows situates the headline numbers against the broader distribution across U.S. public schools and districts.
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For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.