Ella G Clarke Elementary School

Located at 455 MANETTA AVENUE, in LAKEWOOD, New Jersey, Ella G Clarke Elementary School is an intimate K-5 school that instructs 314 students (grades 3 through 6), operated by Lakewood Township School District. Compared to the state average of about 405 students per school, that is 22% smaller than typical.

Lakewood Township School District runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 4,193 students. Ella G Clarke Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Ella G Clarke Elementary School lists that 91% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest comes out to 5% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 11%.

Looking at school resources, Ella G Clarke Elementary School lists 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. An estimated 94% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Ocean County's rate of about 44%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Ella G Clarke Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 14.6%, the actual is 28.7%, a residual of +14.1 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Ocean County indicate the typical household earns roughly $89,863 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Ocean County runs 117 public schools (combined enrollment of about 66,051 students), of which Ella G Clarke Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Lakewood Early Childhood Center, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Ella G Clarke Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Ella G Clarke Elementary School at 3rd of 6; the average score across the group is 30.9%.

Ella G Clarke Elementary School operates from a city-core location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 22%: 405 students in 2018 compared to 314 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 5.6:1 in 2018 to 8.2:1 today.

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