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Emma Havens Young Elementary School
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 152 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 156 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 125 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 152 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 131 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 127 | 15% |
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 36 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 41 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 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 36.0% | 41.0% |
| 2023-24 | 34.8% | 36.0% |
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 34% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 38% 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%.
Where Emma Havens Young Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Ocean County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 34.4% | #870 of 1,290 | #29 of 51 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 41.0% | #767 of 1,319 | #27 of 52 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 36.0% | #1,013 of 1,319 | #38 of 52 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 843 | #42 of 1,562 | #2 of 70 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.7:1 | #797 of 1,390 | #28 of 59 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.4% | #601 of 1,392 | #17 of 59 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 51.5% | #567 of 1,481 | #22 of 67 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +11.8% | #206 of 545 | #14 of 28 |
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 843 | 72.3 | 11.7:1 | 51% (434) |
| 2023-24 | 833 | 67 | 12.4:1 | 46% (385) |
| 2022-23 | 756 | 61.1 | 12.4:1 | 43% (328) |
| 2020-21 | 732 | 60 | 12.2:1 | 40% (290) |
| 2017-18 | 754 | 66.1 | 11.4:1 | 42% (319) |
| 2015-16 | 823 | 73 | 11.3:1 | 44% (366) |
| 2010-11 | 894 | 56 | 16.0:1 | 35% (312) |
| 2000-01 | 987 | 63 | 15.7:1 | 17% (167) |
| 1990-91 | 1,058 | 51 | 20.8:1 | N/A |
About Emma Havens Young Elementary School
Among the schools in BRICK, New Jersey, is Emma Havens Young Elementary School, a large elementary school. Enrolled students number 843 students, in kindergarten through 5. Enrollment is 108% higher than the average for elementary schools in New Jersey, which is about 405.
Brick Township Public School District includes 12 schools. Together they enroll 8,224 students.
Roughly 53% of students at Emma Havens Young Elementary School are White. Other groups make up 38% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Black, and 2% Asian. County-wide, 83% of Ocean County residents are White. Pick two students at random and there is a 57% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Emma Havens Young Elementary School employs 72.3 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 11.7:1. That is close to the 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey. Emma Havens Young Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch eligibility rate is 51%.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Emma Havens Young Elementary School falls in the middle 80% of New Jersey schools: 34.4% actual against 38.0% predicted.
Emma Havens Young Elementary School is located in Ocean County, where the median household income is $89,863, about 34% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 7%. Besides Emma Havens Young Elementary School, Ocean County has 116 other public schools.
The nearest public school is Drum Point Road Elementary School, at about 0.1 miles. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On state test proficiency, Emma Havens Young Elementary School ranks 6th in a group of 7 nearby schools.
NCES assigns Emma Havens Young Elementary School the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school enrolled 843 students in 2024-25, 111 more than the 732 it had in 2020-21.
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