Cedar Drive Middle School

Located at 73 CEDAR DRIVE, in COLTS NECK, New Jersey, Cedar Drive Middle School is a cozy 6-8 campus that educates 319 students (grades 6 through 8), part of Colts Neck Township School District. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 578 students each, so Cedar Drive Middle School sits 45% leaner than that benchmark.

Within Colts Neck Township School District, which oversees 3 schools and 1,007 students, Cedar Drive Middle School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Cedar Drive Middle School shows that nearly all students (84%) are White; the rest consists of 9% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Monmouth County as a whole is about 74% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Cedar Drive Middle School reports 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 7.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 10.9:1 average. An estimated 3% 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 somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Cedar Drive Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.3%, the actual is 69.0%, a residual of +4.7 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Monmouth County) reports that median household income runs about $124,845, about 51% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Cedar Drive Middle School is one of 186 public schools in Monmouth County (combined enrollment of about 91,053 students).

The closest other public school is Colts Neck High School, roughly 1.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Cedar Drive Middle School. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Cedar Drive Middle School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 55.0%.

Cedar Drive Middle School operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. Cedar Drive Middle School's enrollment has fell 9% since 2018, when it stood at 350 (now 319). The White share of enrollment fell from 91% to 84% over that span.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.