Atlantic Highlands Elementary School

As a low-enrollment elementary-level community in ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS, New Jersey, Atlantic Highlands Elementary School instructs 245 students from grades pre-K through 6, one of the schools within Atlantic Highlands School District. That puts it 40% smaller than the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 405 students.

Atlantic Highlands Elementary School is a school of Atlantic Highlands School District, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Atlantic Highlands Elementary School records that 80% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder looks like 11% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 2% Black.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting Atlantic Highlands Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 14% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Monmouth County runs at roughly 29%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Atlantic Highlands Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 58.6%; this one delivers 51.7%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Monmouth County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $124,845 per year, 51% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Atlantic Highlands Elementary School is one of 186 public schools in Monmouth County (combined enrollment of about 91,053 students).

Atlantic Highlands Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Atlantic Highlands Elementary School comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 52.1%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 6 years, enrollment at Atlantic Highlands Elementary School has edged down 23%, going from 318 students in 2018 to 245 in 2024. White enrollment moved from 88% to 80% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 10.8:1 in 2018 to 8.2:1 today.

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