Clifton Ave Grade School

Clifton Ave Grade School operates as a compact elementary school in LAKEWOOD, New Jersey, one of the schools within Lakewood Township School District. Current enrollment sits at 331 students spanning grades 3 through 6.

Lakewood Township School District comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 4,193 students; Clifton Ave Grade School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Clifton Ave Grade School lists that nearly all students (86%) are Hispanic; the rest breaks down as 6% Black, 5% White, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 11% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 7.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 92% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Ocean County's rate of about 44%.

With demographic context factored in, Clifton Ave Grade School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 15.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 26.1%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Ocean County) shows that median household earnings sit near $89,863, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Ocean County's 117 public schools (combined enrollment of about 66,051 students), Clifton Ave Grade School is one campus in the mix.

Ella G Clarke Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Clifton Ave Grade School. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Clifton Ave Grade School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 27.6%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Clifton Ave Grade School has fell 47%, going from 627 students in 2018 to 331 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 11.6:1 in 2018 to 7.0:1 in 2025.

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