Fairview Elementary School

Fairview Elementary School is a primary school of intimate scale in RED BANK, New Jersey, operated by Middletown Township Public School District, works with 291 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 28% smaller than the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 405 students.

Middletown Township Public School District comprises 16 schools with combined enrollment of 8,752 students; Fairview Elementary School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Fairview Elementary School logs that 81% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 8% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 4% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, Fairview Elementary School reports 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. Roughly 12% of students at Fairview Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Monmouth County (around 29%), the school's rate is south of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Fairview Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.8%, the actual is 64.3%, a residual of +4.5 points.

In the broader community, Monmouth County reports that the typical household earns roughly $124,845 per year, about 51% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Fairview Elementary School is one of 186 public schools in Monmouth County (combined enrollment of about 91,053 students).

Nearest neighbor: River Plaza Elementary School, around 1.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Fairview Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Fairview Elementary School comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 47.5%.

Fairview Elementary School operates from a bedroom-community location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 6%: 308 students in 2018 compared to 291 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment decreased from 16% to 6% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 12.2:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 in 2025.

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