Enrollment
319
Middle
DISTRICT 336 · STATE 578
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·COLTS NECK TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340345003760
Cedar Drive Middle School
73 CEDAR DRIVE, COLTS NECK, NJ 07722 · (732) 946-0055 · Monmouth County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL319 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 89% of New Jersey public middle schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
7.6:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 8.3:1 · STATE 10.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
3%
11 students
DISTRICT 3% · STATE 41%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 110 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 102 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 107 | 34% |
Student demographics
28%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 24% · 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
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Colts Neck Township School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
88.3%
NJ avg 53.1% . +7.5pp since 2023
Math
76.1%
NJ avg 41.6% . +6.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 88 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 76 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 88.3% | 76.1% |
| 2023-24 | 80.8% | 69.2% |
% 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
69.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
64.3%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 69% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 64% 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 Cedar Drive Middle School
Cedar Drive Middle School's state test result (69.0% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cedar Drive Middle School this school | 319 | 3.4% | 69.0% |
| Mendham Township Middle School BROOKSIDE | 342 | 0.9% | 86.7% |
| Haines Sixth Grade Center MEDFORD | 299 | 7.4% | 64.3% |
| Maple Place Middle School OCEANPORT | 256 | 8.2% | 61.4% |
| Franklin Avenue Middle School Franklin Lakes | 369 | 3.3% | 61.5% |
| Belhaven Middle School LINWOOD | 347 | 10.4% | 62.8% |
Matched among New Jersey middle 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 Cedar Drive Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Monmouth County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 69.0% | #37 of 433 | #4 of 33 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 76.1% | #30 of 437 ▲ 13 | #5 of 35 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 88.3% | #11 of 437 ▲ 26 | #3 of 35 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 319 | #362 of 445 | #27 of 35 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 7.6:1 | #9 of 417 | #2 of 32 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 28.4% | #384 of 419 | #26 of 32 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 3.4% | #398 of 436 | #30 of 33 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.9% | #168 of 282 | #25 of 32 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
319
-8 (-2%) vs 2020
+19% since 1990-91, when it was 269
Student : Teacher
7.6:1
was 7.4:1
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 | 319 | 42.1 | 7.6:1 | 3% (11) |
| 2023-24 | 320 | 43.9 | 7.3:1 | 4% (13) |
| 2022-23 | 328 | 32.9 | 10.0:1 | 5% (18) |
| 2020-21 | 327 | 44 | 7.4:1 | 4% (12) |
| 2017-18 | 350 | 43.1 | 8.1:1 | 1% (4) |
| 2015-16 | 368 | 46 | 8.0:1 | 4% (15) |
| 2010-11 | 462 | 40 | 11.6:1 | 2% (9) |
| 2000-01 | 655 | 52 | 12.6:1 | 1% (7) |
| 1990-91 | 269 | 29 | 9.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Cedar Drive Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 9% (350 to 319); teachers down 2% (43.1 to 42.1).
About Cedar Drive Middle School
Federal records list Cedar Drive Middle School as a middle-grades school in COLTS NECK, New Jersey. There are 319 students enrolled, covering grades 6 through 8. That puts enrollment 45% below the 578-student average for middle schools in New Jersey.
The district, Colts Neck Township School District, has 1,007 students enrolled across 3 schools.
The share of students at Cedar Drive Middle School who are White is 84%. Smaller groups are 9% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, and 3% Asian. County-wide, 74% of Monmouth County residents are White. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 28%.
Teacher count: 42.1 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 7.6:1. Across middle schools in New Jersey, the average ratio is 10.9:1. Roughly 3% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Monmouth County is 29%.
Cedar Drive Middle School holds an A allk12 Grade, placing it above 89% of New Jersey public middle schools.
Cedar Drive Middle School posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 69.0%, compared with a predicted 64.3%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of New Jersey schools on BeatsExpectations.
In the wider Monmouth County area, the median household earns about $124,845 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 51% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 4%. Cedar Drive Middle School shares Monmouth County with 185 other public schools.
About 1.4 miles separate Cedar Drive Middle School from the closest public school, Colts Neck High School. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, Cedar Drive Middle School is 1st of 6 nearby schools with test data.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The student count changed little between 2020-21 (327) and 2024-25 (319).
Parents, students, and staff can share information on athletics, class schedules, and weather closures here. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Monmouth County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
645,353
Census ACS
Median income
$124,845
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
51%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
186
91,053 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Colts Neck Township School District
- Conover Road Primary SchoolElementary · 366 students
- Conover Road Elementary SchoolElementary · 322 students
Other schools in COLTS NECK
- Colts Neck High SchoolHigh · 1,430 students
- Conover Road Primary SchoolElementary · 366 students
- Conover Road Elementary SchoolElementary · 322 students
Nearby schools
- Colts Neck High School1.4 mi · 1,430
- Conover Road Primary School1.7 mi · 366
- Conover Road Elementary School1.8 mi · 322
- Dwight D. Eisenhower School2.8 mi · 582
- Joseph J Catena School2.9 mi · 445
- Marlboro High School3.1 mi · 1,700
Frequently asked questions
About Cedar Drive Middle SchoolHow many students attend Cedar Drive Middle School?
Cedar Drive Middle School enrolls approximately 319 students in grades 06-08.
Is Cedar Drive Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Cedar Drive Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at Cedar Drive Middle School?
Approximately 7.6:1 students per teacher at Cedar Drive Middle School.
What is the student diversity at Cedar Drive Middle School?
Student demographics at Cedar Drive Middle School are roughly 84% White, 9% Hispanic, 1% Black, 3% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is Cedar Drive Middle School in?
Cedar Drive Middle School is part of Colts Neck Township School District.
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