Avon Elementary School
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 85 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 64 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 10 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 9 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 67% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 58% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Avon Elementary School
Avon Elementary School is one of the very small primary schools in AVON, New Jersey, part of Avon Boro School District, with 112 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 72% below the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 405 students.
Avon Elementary School sits inside Avon Boro School District, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.
On demographics, Avon Elementary School shows that nearly all students (88%) are White. Other groups include 9% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Monmouth County as a whole is about 74% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 6.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. About 14% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Monmouth County runs at roughly 29%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, Avon Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.3%, the actual is 66.7%, a residual of +8.3 points.
In the area at large, census data for Monmouth County shows median household earnings sit near $124,845, roughly 51% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Avon Elementary School is one of 186 public schools in Monmouth County (combined enrollment of about 91,053 students).
Bradley Beach Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Avon Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 29.7%.
Avon Elementary School operates from a commuter-belt location.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 21%: 142 students in 2018 compared to 112 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 7.9:1 in 2018 to 6.3:1 in 2025.
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