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College Achieve Greater Asbury Park Charter School District
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 22 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 30% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 21% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About College Achieve Greater Asbury Park Charter School District
College Achieve Greater Asbury Park Charter School District, a cozy multi-level school in Neptune, New Jersey, part of College Achieve Greater Asbury Park Charter School Distr, educates 522 students, covering grades K through 12. That puts it 44% smaller than the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 934 students.
College Achieve Greater Asbury Park Charter School Distr is the operating authority for College Achieve Greater Asbury Park Charter School District, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.
Looking at the student body, College Achieve Greater Asbury Park Charter School District shows that 51% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 44% Hispanic, 5% White. By comparison, Monmouth County as a whole is about 6% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, College Achieve Greater Asbury Park Charter School District reports 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.0:1. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 83% of students at College Achieve Greater Asbury Park Charter School District qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Monmouth County runs at roughly 29%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, College Achieve Greater Asbury Park Charter School District tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 20.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 29.6%.
Across the wider county, Monmouth County reports that median household earnings sit near $124,845, 51% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Monmouth County's 186 public schools (combined enrollment of about 91,053 students), College Achieve Greater Asbury Park Charter School District is one campus in the mix.
Summerfield Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around College Achieve Greater Asbury Park Charter School District. On composite proficiency, College Achieve Greater Asbury Park Charter School District comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 38.5%.
The school occupies a residential site. As a public charter, College Achieve Greater Asbury Park Charter School District runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at College Achieve Greater Asbury Park Charter School District has rose 211%, going from 168 students in 2018 to 522 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share contracted from 80% to 51%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 18.0:1 today.
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