Cedar Creek Elementary School

Located at 220 WESTERN BLVD, in LANOKA HARBOR, New Jersey, Cedar Creek Elementary School is a moderately sized elementary school that educates 432 students (grades 1 through 5), overseen by Lacey Township School District.

Within Lacey Township School District, which oversees 6 schools and 3,913 students, Cedar Creek Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Cedar Creek Elementary School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (82%). The remainder comes out to 9% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Ocean County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Cedar Creek Elementary School has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.3:1. The state averages about 11.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 27% of students at Cedar Creek Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Ocean County runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Cedar Creek Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 51.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 43.0%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Ocean County put the typical household earns roughly $89,863 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Ocean County runs 117 public schools (combined enrollment of about 66,051 students), of which Cedar Creek Elementary School is one.

Mill Pond Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Cedar Creek Elementary School comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 35.7%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Cedar Creek Elementary School has contracted 15%, going from 508 students in 2018 to 432 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 93% to 82% over that span.

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