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Honest take: what's the hardest part about being a student at Bayville Elementary School?
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Enrollment
475
Elementary
DISTRICT 589 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BERKELEY TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340156004574
Bayville Elementary School
356 ATLANTIC CITY BLVD, BAYVILLE, NJ 08721 · (732) 269-1300 · Ocean County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL475 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 45% 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.
- C+Beats 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
10.9:1
44 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.5:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
37%
178 students
DISTRICT 37% · STATE 41%
Community
1
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 85 | 18% |
| Kindergarten | 73 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 82 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 72 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 77 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 86 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (73) is 15% smaller than its 4th grade class (86).
Student demographics
53%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 50% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Bayville Elementary School→Berkeley Township Elementary School
Based on grade levels within Berkeley Township School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
48.1%
NJ avg 53.1% . +1.2pp since 2023
Math
45.2%
NJ avg 41.6% . +5.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 48 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 up about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 48.1% | 45.2% |
| 2023-24 | 46.9% | 39.7% |
% 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
44.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
45.6%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 45% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 46% 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 Bayville Elementary School
Bayville Elementary School's state test result (44.8% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bayville Elementary School this school | 475 | 37.5% | 44.8% |
| Lanes Mill Elementary School BRICK | 557 | 35.2% | 37.0% |
| Lloyd Road Elementary School ABERDEEN | 519 | 36.8% | 50.2% |
| Ramtown Elementary School HOWELL | 483 | 30.6% | 45.4% |
| Edith M. Griebling Elementary School FARMINGDALE | 457 | 37.6% | 43.7% |
| Beachwood Elementary School BEACHWOOD | 480 | 39.6% | 38.3% |
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 Bayville Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Ocean County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 44.8% | #638 of 1,290 | #11 of 51 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 45.2% | #683 of 1,319 ▲ 64 | #17 of 52 ▲ 11 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 48.1% | #757 of 1,319 ▼ 10 | #17 of 52 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 475 | #467 of 1,562 | #33 of 70 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.9:1 | #579 of 1,390 | #17 of 59 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 53.5% | #705 of 1,392 | #20 of 59 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 37.5% | #749 of 1,481 | #42 of 67 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +17.9% | #121 of 545 | #9 of 28 |
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
475
-24 (-5%) vs 2020
+25% since 1990-91, when it was 381
Student : Teacher
10.9:1
was 11.9:1
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 | 475 | 43.8 | 10.9:1 | 37% (178) |
| 2023-24 | 511 | 44.5 | 11.5:1 | 36% (182) |
| 2022-23 | 506 | 45.5 | 11.1:1 | 29% (148) |
| 2020-21 | 499 | 42 | 11.9:1 | 32% (159) |
| 2017-18 | 403 | 36.4 | 11.1:1 | 41% (164) |
| 2015-16 | 399 | 40 | 10.0:1 | 35% (140) |
| 2010-11 | 408 | 33 | 12.4:1 | 31% (125) |
| 2000-01 | 465 | 33 | 14.1:1 | 27% (125) |
| 1990-91 | 381 | 29 | 13.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Bayville Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 18% (403 to 475); teachers up 20% (36.4 to 43.8).
About Bayville Elementary School
Bayville Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school that serves part of BAYVILLE, New Jersey. It had 475 students in 2024-25, spanning pre-K through 4.
Bayville Elementary School sits within Berkeley Township School District, which has 4 schools and 2,362 students.
Federal enrollment data show Bayville Elementary School is 62% White. Other groups include 28% Hispanic, 4% Black, 3% multiracial, and 2% Asian. The county population is about 83% White. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 53, compared with 70 nationally.
Its staff includes 43.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 10.9 students per teacher. It is about the same as the 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey. Bayville Elementary School has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 37%.
Among New Jersey public elementary schools, Bayville Elementary School outscored 45%, which works out to a B- on the allk12 Grade.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Bayville Elementary School falls in the middle 80% of New Jersey schools: 44.8% actual against 45.6% predicted.
Ocean County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $89,863, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Ocean County's 117 public schools enroll about 66,051 students and include Bayville Elementary School.
H & M Potter School, about 0.7 miles away, is the closest public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. By average proficiency, Bayville Elementary School is 3rd among 9 schools close by.
NCES assigns Bayville Elementary School the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment decreased 5% over 4 years, reaching 475 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 11.9:1 to 10.9:1.
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Ocean County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
654,362
Census ACS
Median income
$89,863
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
117
66,051 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Berkeley Township School District
- Clara B. Worth Elementary SchoolElementary · 666 students
- H & M Potter SchoolElementary · 627 students
- Berkeley Township Elementary SchoolMiddle · 594 students
Other schools in BAYVILLE
- Central Regional High SchoolHigh · 1,489 students
- Central Regional Middle SchoolMiddle · 680 students
- Clara B. Worth Elementary SchoolElementary · 666 students
- H & M Potter SchoolElementary · 627 students
- Berkeley Township Elementary SchoolMiddle · 594 students
Nearby schools
- H & M Potter School0.7 mi · 627
- Ocean Gate Elementary School0.9 mi · 141
- Berkeley Township Elementary School1.2 mi · 594
- Pine Beach Elementary School1.6 mi · 371
- Beachwood Elementary School1.8 mi · 480
- Island Heights Elementary School1.9 mi · 142
Frequently asked questions
About Bayville Elementary SchoolHow large is Bayville Elementary School?
Bayville Elementary School enrolls approximately 475 students in grades PK-04.
What age range does Bayville Elementary School serve?
Bayville Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 04.
How many students per teacher at Bayville Elementary School?
Approximately 10.9:1 students per teacher at Bayville Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Bayville Elementary School?
Student demographics at Bayville Elementary School are roughly 62% White, 28% Hispanic, 4% Black, 2% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is Bayville Elementary School in?
Bayville Elementary School is part of Berkeley Township School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.