Bayview Elementary School

As a medium-sized K-5 school in BELFORD, New Jersey, Bayview Elementary School enrolls 364 students from grades K through 5, one of the schools within Middletown Township Public School District.

Bayview Elementary School is one of 16 schools operated by Middletown Township Public School District, a district that educates 8,752 students overall.

Demographically, Bayview Elementary School shows that White students make up the majority at 79%. Beyond that, the school records 15% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. An estimated 16% of students are eligible 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 lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Bayview Elementary School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 57.1%; this one comes in at 42.7%, -14.4 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Monmouth County indicate median household income runs about $124,845, 51% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Bayview Elementary School is one of 186 public schools in Monmouth County (combined enrollment of about 91,053 students).

Middletown High School North is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Bayview Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Bayview Elementary School at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 48.0%.

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

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Bayview Elementary School has changed only slightly, going from 372 students in 2018 to 364 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 10% to 15%. Class-load math has fell: from 11.0:1 in 2018 to 9.9:1 in 2025.

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