Cedar Grove Elementary School

Cedar Grove Elementary School is a roomy primary school in TOMS RIVER, New Jersey, one of the schools within Toms River Regional School District. The school caters to 931 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 405 students each, so Cedar Grove Elementary School sits 130% bigger than that benchmark.

Toms River Regional School District comprises 18 schools with combined enrollment of 14,323 students; Cedar Grove Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Cedar Grove Elementary School logs that 65% of the student body identifies as White; the rest reads as 27% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 3% Asian, 2% Black. The wider county runs roughly 83% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Cedar Grove Elementary School has 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting Cedar Grove Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Around 40% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Cedar Grove Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 44.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 39.4%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Ocean County) records that the typical household earns roughly $89,863 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Ocean County runs 117 public schools (combined enrollment of about 66,051 students), of which Cedar Grove Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Washington Street Elementary School, around 0.9 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Cedar Grove Elementary School comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 35.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Cedar Grove Elementary School has climbed 9%, going from 852 students in 2018 to 931 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 78% to 65%.

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