East Dover Elementary School

East Dover Elementary School is a primary school of middle-of-the-pack scale in TOMS RIVER, New Jersey, overseen by Toms River Regional School District, teacheing 584 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 44% larger than the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 405 students.

Across the 18 schools in Toms River Regional School District (14,323 students total), East Dover Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, East Dover Elementary School shows that the largest single group is White, at 66% of enrollment. Other groups include 24% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 4% Black. By comparison, Ocean County as a whole is about 83% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, East Dover Elementary School has 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. Roughly 44% of students at East Dover Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, East Dover Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.1%, the actual is 28.9%, a residual of -13.2 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Ocean County indicate the typical household earns roughly $89,863 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. East Dover Elementary School is one of 117 public schools in Ocean County (combined enrollment of about 66,051 students).

The closest other public school is Toms River High School East, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), East Dover Elementary School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 41.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 12%: 660 students in 2018 compared to 584 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 19% to 24% across the same window.

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