Cove Road School

Cove Road School operates as a rural-scale middle school in HAZLET, New Jersey, overseen by Hazlet Township Public School District. Current enrollment sits at 175 students spanning grades 5 through 6. Compared to the state average of about 578 students per school, that is 70% below typical.

Within Hazlet Township Public School District, which oversees 8 schools and 2,657 students, Cove Road School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Cove Road School logs that the largest single group is White, at 74% of enrollment. Other groups include 17% Hispanic, 5% Black, 2% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with Monmouth County as a whole.

On the resource side, Cove Road School reports 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.9:1. The state averages around 10.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 29% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Cove Road School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.5%; this one delivers 45.9%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Monmouth County indicate median household earnings sit near $124,845, about 51% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Monmouth County runs 186 public schools (combined enrollment of about 91,053 students), of which Cove Road School is one.

Middle Road School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Cove Road School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 36.8%.

Cove Road School operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. Cove Road School's enrollment has edged down 15% since 2018, when it stood at 206 (now 175).

On allk12, the feed for Cove Road School typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.