Eagleswood Elementary School

Eagleswood Elementary School is a tiny K-5 school in WEST CREEK, New Jersey, one of the schools within Eagleswood Township School District. The school hosts 136 students in grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 66% below the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 405 students.

Eagleswood Elementary School sits inside Eagleswood Township School District, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

In terms of who attends, Eagleswood Elementary School records that nearly all students (85%) are White; the rest looks like 13% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Ocean County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting Eagleswood Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 39% 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, Eagleswood Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 44.8%; this one delivers 33.2%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Ocean County indicate median household income runs about $89,863, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Ocean County runs 117 public schools (combined enrollment of about 66,051 students), of which Eagleswood Elementary School is one.

Frog Pond Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Eagleswood Elementary School comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 45.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 4%: 142 students in 2018 compared to 136 in 2025.

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