Enrollment
314
Elementary
DISTRICT 387 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LAKEWOOD TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340822004640
Ella G Clarke Elementary School
455 MANETTA AVENUE, LAKEWOOD, NJ 08701 · (732) 905-3620 · Ocean County
GRADES 03–06ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL314 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 49% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New Jersey public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
8.2:1
38 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 8.1:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
94%
296 students
DISTRICT 92% · STATE 41%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 60 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 90 | 29% |
| Grade 5 | 69 | 22% |
| Grade 6 | 95 | 30% |
Student demographics
17%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 25% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
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NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
39.7%
NJ avg 53.1% . +1.8pp since 2023
Math
28.9%
NJ avg 41.6% . +3.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 29 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 39.7% | 28.9% |
| 2023-24 | 37.9% | 25.5% |
% Meeting or Exceeding Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: NJSLA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
28.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
14.6%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 29% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 15% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Ella G Clarke Elementary School
Ella G Clarke Elementary School's state test result (28.7% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ella G Clarke Elementary School this school | 314 | 94.3% | 28.7% |
| Livingston Elementary School NEW BRUNSWICK | 342 | 93.3% | 11.4% |
| Clifton Ave Grade School LAKEWOOD | 331 | 91.8% | 26.1% |
| Lincoln Elementary School NEW BRUNSWICK | 356 | 93.3% | 15.1% |
| Piner Elementary School Lakewood | 364 | 92.6% | N/A |
| Stony Brook School North Plainfield | 272 | 89.3% | 19.4% |
Matched among New Jersey elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Ella G Clarke Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Ocean County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 28.7% | #986 of 1,290 | #41 of 51 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 28.9% | #996 of 1,319 ▲ 11 | #45 of 52 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 39.7% | #942 of 1,319 ▼ 17 | #31 of 52 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 314 | #1,047 of 1,562 | #52 of 70 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.2:1 | #54 of 1,390 | #6 of 59 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 16.7% | #1,332 of 1,392 | #59 of 59 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 94.3% | #22 of 1,481 | #1 of 67 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -22.5% | #133 of 798 | #7 of 30 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
314
-111 (-26%) vs 2020
-37% since 1990-91, when it was 495
Student : Teacher
8.2:1
was 9.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 314 | 38.2 | 8.2:1 | 94% (296) |
| 2023-24 | 353 | 41.7 | 8.5:1 | 97% (342) |
| 2022-23 | 266 | 38.2 | 7.0:1 | 95% (253) |
| 2020-21 | 425 | 46 | 9.2:1 | 96% (407) |
| 2017-18 | 405 | 72 | 5.6:1 | 94% (379) |
| 2015-16 | 477 | 70 | 6.8:1 | 97% (464) |
| 2010-11 | 881 | 65 | 13.6:1 | 94% (824) |
| 2000-01 | 573 | 36 | 15.9:1 | 60% (343) |
| 1990-91 | 495 | 25 | 19.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Ella G Clarke Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 22% (405 to 314); teachers down 47% (72 to 38.2).
About Ella G Clarke Elementary School
Ella G Clarke Elementary School is a small elementary school serving families in LAKEWOOD, New Jersey. Total enrollment is 314 students, and the grades served are 3 through 6. By comparison, elementary schools in New Jersey enroll about 405 students on average.
Ella G Clarke Elementary School sits within Lakewood Township School District, which has 8 schools and 4,193 students.
Hispanic students are 91% of those enrolled at Ella G Clarke Elementary School. Beyond that, enrollment is 5% Black. In Ocean County overall, about 11% of residents are Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 17, compared with 70 nationally.
Its staff includes 38.2 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 8.2 students per teacher. The average for elementary schools in New Jersey, 11.4:1, is higher. Ella G Clarke Elementary School has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 94%. Among public schools in Ocean County, the average eligibility rate is 44%.
On the allk12 Grade, Ella G Clarke Elementary School lands at B-, ahead of 49% of New Jersey public elementary schools.
In New Jersey, Ella G Clarke Elementary School is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 28.7% actual against a predicted 14.6%.
The school is in Ocean County, where the median household earns about $89,863 a year, about 34% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. Across Ocean County, 117 public schools serve about 66,051 students.
Measured in a straight line, Lakewood Early Childhood Center is about 0.2 miles from Ella G Clarke Elementary School. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Among 6 nearby schools that report test results, Ella G Clarke Elementary School ranks 3rd on proficiency.
By NCES locale, the school is City: Small, or inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment was 314 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 425. The ratio of students to teachers went from 9.2:1 to 8.2:1 over the same years.
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Ocean County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
654,362
Census ACS
Median income
$89,863
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
117
66,051 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Lakewood Township School District
- Lakewood High SchoolHigh · 1,295 students
- Lakewood Middle SchoolMiddle · 574 students
- Spruce Street Elementary SchoolElementary · 554 students
- Oak Street Elem SchoolElementary · 513 students
- Piner Elementary SchoolElementary · 364 students
- Clifton Ave Grade SchoolElementary · 331 students
Other schools in LAKEWOOD
- Lakewood High SchoolHigh · 1,295 students
- Lakewood Middle SchoolMiddle · 574 students
- Spruce Street Elementary SchoolElementary · 554 students
- Ocean Academy Charter SchoolCombined · 551 students
- Oak Street Elem SchoolElementary · 513 students
- Piner Elementary SchoolElementary · 364 students
Nearby schools
- Lakewood Early Childhood Center0.2 mi · 248
- Lakewood Middle School0.3 mi · 574
- Lakewood High School0.4 mi · 1,295
- Clifton Ave Grade School0.8 mi · 331
- Piner Elementary School1.5 mi · 364
- Spruce Street Elementary School1.9 mi · 554
Frequently asked questions
About Ella G Clarke Elementary SchoolHow large is Ella G Clarke Elementary School?
Ella G Clarke Elementary School enrolls approximately 314 students in grades 03-06.
Is Ella G Clarke Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Ella G Clarke Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades 03-06.
How many teachers does Ella G Clarke Elementary School have?
Ella G Clarke Elementary School employs 38 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 8.2:1.
What is the student diversity at Ella G Clarke Elementary School?
Student demographics at Ella G Clarke Elementary School are roughly 2% White, 91% Hispanic, 5% Black, 2% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Ella G Clarke Elementary School?
Ella G Clarke Elementary School is overseen by Lakewood Township School District in Ocean County.
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