Enrollment
374
Elementary
DISTRICT 418 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HOWELL TOWNSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340756003862
Ardena Elementary School
355 ADELPHIA ROAD, FARMINGDALE, NJ 07727 · (732) 751-2485 · Monmouth County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL374 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 38% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New Jersey public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
10.2:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.8:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
30%
114 students
DISTRICT 30% · STATE 41%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 59 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 60 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 56 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 78 | 21% |
| Grade 4 | 61 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 60 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (59) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (60).
Student demographics
52%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 56% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
54.7%
NJ avg 53.1% . -1.2pp since 2023
Math
44.8%
NJ avg 41.6% . -1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 45 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 54.7% | 44.8% |
| 2023-24 | 55.9% | 45.8% |
% Meeting or Exceeding Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: NJSLA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
45.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.5%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 45% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New Jersey's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Ardena Elementary School
Ardena Elementary School's state test result (45.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ardena Elementary School this school | 374 | 30.5% | 45.0% |
| Greenville Elementary School HOWELL | 345 | 29.6% | 48.9% |
| Adelphia Early Learning Center FREEHOLD | 357 | 30.8% | N/A |
| E Raymond Appleby Elementary School SPOTSWOOD | 365 | 30.7% | 38.0% |
| Lenox School POMPTON LAKES | 355 | 31.8% | 41.3% |
| Newbury Early Learning Center HOWELL | 365 | 28.8% | 47.0% |
Matched among New Jersey elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Ardena Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Monmouth County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 45.0% | #634 of 1,290 | #57 of 89 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 44.8% | #695 of 1,319 ▼ 49 | #66 of 93 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 54.7% | #600 of 1,319 ▼ 41 | #58 of 93 ▼ 11 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 374 | #789 of 1,562 | #58 of 112 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.2:1 | #399 of 1,390 | #42 of 98 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.1% | #745 of 1,392 | #38 of 98 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 30.5% | #851 of 1,481 | #41 of 105 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +7.5% | #313 of 545 | #26 of 46 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
374
+50 (+15%) vs 2020
-37% since 1990-91, when it was 593
Student : Teacher
10.2:1
was 10.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 374 | 36.6 | 10.2:1 | 30% (114) |
| 2023-24 | 324 | 30.9 | 10.5:1 | 24% (79) |
| 2022-23 | 334 | 35.6 | 9.4:1 | 25% (82) |
| 2020-21 | 324 | 30 | 10.8:1 | 25% (81) |
| 2017-18 | 348 | 30.9 | 11.3:1 | 24% (82) |
| 2015-16 | 338 | 29 | 11.7:1 | 23% (79) |
| 2010-11 | 444 | 27 | 16.4:1 | 26% (114) |
| 2000-01 | 550 | 32 | 17.2:1 | 12% (67) |
| 1990-91 | 593 | 32 | 18.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Ardena Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 7% (348 to 374); teachers up 18% (30.9 to 36.6).
About Ardena Elementary School
Ardena Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in FARMINGDALE, New Jersey, administered by Howell Township Public School District. The school has 374 students in 2024-25 across kindergarten through 5.
Howell Township Public School District is the district for Ardena Elementary School. It has 12 schools and 6,047 students.
The share of White students at Ardena Elementary School is 63%, a majority. Smaller groups are 29% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 3% Black, and 2% Asian. For comparison, the population of Monmouth County is roughly 74% White. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 52%.
Classroom staffing at Ardena Elementary School totals 36.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 10.2:1. Compared with the 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey, this school's ratio is lower. Federal data show 30% of students (114) are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Monmouth County is similar, at 29%.
On the allk12 Grade, Ardena Elementary School lands at C+, ahead of 38% of New Jersey public elementary schools.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, Ardena Elementary School would be expected to post about 49.5%. Its actual average proficiency rate across its state test results is 45.0%.
In Monmouth County, median household income comes to about $124,845, roughly 51% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Monmouth County counts 186 public schools with about 91,053 students.
A public school about 0.6 miles away, Memorial Elementary School, is the closest to Ardena Elementary School. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. On proficiency, Ardena Elementary School is ahead of the 43.4% nearby average, ranking 3rd of 8.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Large, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 15% gain, from 324 to 374.
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Monmouth County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
645,353
Census ACS
Median income
$124,845
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
51%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
186
91,053 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Howell Township Public School District
- Howell Township Middle School NorthMiddle · 970 students
- Howell Township Middle School SouthMiddle · 893 students
- Land O'Pines Elementary SchoolElementary · 530 students
- Ramtown Elementary SchoolElementary · 483 students
- Aldrich Elementary SchoolElementary · 470 students
- Edith M. Griebling Elementary SchoolElementary · 457 students
Other schools in FARMINGDALE
- Howell High SchoolHigh · 1,775 students
- Howell Township Middle School NorthMiddle · 970 students
- Edith M. Griebling Elementary SchoolElementary · 457 students
- Farmingdale ElementaryElementary · 160 students
Nearby schools
- Memorial Elementary School0.6 mi · 414
- Adelphia Early Learning Center0.7 mi · 357
- Howell Township Middle School North1.6 mi · 970
- Edith M. Griebling Elementary School1.8 mi · 457
- Howell High School2.0 mi · 1,775
- Farmingdale Elementary2.1 mi · 160
Frequently asked questions
About Ardena Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Ardena Elementary School?
Ardena Elementary School enrolls approximately 374 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Ardena Elementary School serve?
Ardena Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many teachers does Ardena Elementary School have?
Ardena Elementary School employs 37 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.2:1.
What is the student diversity at Ardena Elementary School?
Student demographics at Ardena Elementary School are roughly 63% White, 29% Hispanic, 3% Black, 2% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is Ardena Elementary School in?
Ardena Elementary School is part of Howell Township Public School District.
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