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How has Frank Defino Central Elementary School changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
510
Elementary
DISTRICT 464 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MARLBORO TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340972003946
Frank Defino Central Elementary School
175 Route 79 North, MARLBORO, NJ 07746 · (732) 972-2099 · Monmouth County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL510 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 88% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats 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
10.7:1
48 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.6:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
15%
79 students
DISTRICT 12% · STATE 41%
Community
1
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 70 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 75 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 88 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 93 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 99 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 85 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (70) is 18% smaller than its 5th grade class (85).
Student demographics
58%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 54% · 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
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
72.8%
NJ avg 53.1% . -2.9pp since 2023
Math
75.8%
NJ avg 41.6% . -2.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 73 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 76 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 72.8% | 75.8% |
| 2023-24 | 75.7% | 78.2% |
% 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
69.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.7%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 69% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 58% 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 Frank Defino Central Elementary School
Frank Defino Central Elementary School's state test result (69.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frank Defino Central Elementary School this school | 510 | 15.5% | 69.3% |
| Radburn Elementary School FAIR LAWN | 445 | 11.5% | 86.5% |
| Kresson School VOORHEES | 527 | 15.7% | 68.3% |
| Wemrock Brook School MANALAPAN | 513 | 15.8% | 71.1% |
| Robertsville Elementary School MORGANVILLE | 438 | 14.4% | 70.7% |
| Edward T. Hamilton VOORHEES | 517 | 16.6% | 66.1% |
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 Frank Defino Central Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Monmouth County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 69.3% | #166 of 1,290 | #9 of 89 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 75.8% | #149 of 1,319 ▼ 64 | #13 of 93 ▼ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 72.8% | #207 of 1,319 ▼ 59 | #20 of 93 ▼ 9 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 510 | #386 of 1,562 | #19 of 112 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.7:1 | #532 of 1,390 | #55 of 98 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.8% | #585 of 1,392 | #19 of 98 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 15.5% | #1,125 of 1,481 | #67 of 105 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +2.8% | #453 of 545 | #38 of 46 |
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
510
-8 (-2%) vs 2020
-7% since 1990-91, when it was 546
Student : Teacher
10.7:1
was 10.8:1
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 | 510 | 47.8 | 10.7:1 | 15% (79) |
| 2023-24 | 533 | 51.6 | 10.3:1 | 12% (62) |
| 2022-23 | 526 | 48.8 | 10.8:1 | 5% (24) |
| 2020-21 | 518 | 48 | 10.8:1 | 8% (44) |
| 2017-18 | 496 | 45.8 | 10.8:1 | 6% (28) |
| 2015-16 | 504 | 42 | 12.0:1 | 4% (22) |
| 2010-11 | 677 | 33 | 20.5:1 | 2% (12) |
| 2000-01 | 929 | 52 | 17.9:1 | 1% (11) |
| 1990-91 | 546 | 34 | 16.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Frank Defino Central Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 3% (496 to 510); teachers up 4% (45.8 to 47.8).
About Frank Defino Central Elementary School
Frank Defino Central Elementary School is an elementary school in MARLBORO, New Jersey, according to federal school records. Grades offered run from kindergarten through 5, with 510 students enrolled. The average among elementary schools in New Jersey is roughly 405 students; this school is 26% larger than that.
The 8 schools in Marlboro Township School District enroll 4,481 students altogether, Frank Defino Central Elementary School among them.
Frank Defino Central Elementary School is 58% White by enrollment. Other reported shares: 27% Asian, 9% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, and 2% Black. That compares with about 74% White among all Monmouth County residents. Pick two students at random and there is a 58% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The school reports 47.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 10.7 students per teacher. The school has fewer students per teacher than the 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 15%. Compared with the 29% average for public schools in Monmouth County, the school's rate is lower.
Frank Defino Central Elementary School is graded A by allk12, scoring above 88% of New Jersey public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Frank Defino Central Elementary School scores 69.3% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 57.7%.
In the county around the school, Monmouth County, the median household income is $124,845, about 51% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. Monmouth County is home to 186 public schools and about 91,053 public school students.
The nearest public school is Marlboro High School, at about 0.8 miles. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools with test data average 63.2% proficiency; Frank Defino Central Elementary School posts 69.3%.
Frank Defino Central Elementary School falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over 4 years, enrollment stayed close to where it was, going from 518 to 510.
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Monmouth County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
645,353
Census ACS
Median income
$124,845
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
51%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
186
91,053 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Marlboro Township School District
- Marlboro Middle SchoolMiddle · 935 students
- Marlboro Memorial Middle SchoolMiddle · 761 students
- Frank J. Dugan Elementary SchoolElementary · 624 students
- Marlboro Elementary SchoolElementary · 551 students
- Asher Holmes Elementary SchoolElementary · 444 students
- Robertsville Elementary SchoolElementary · 438 students
Other schools in MARLBORO
- Marlboro High SchoolHigh · 1,700 students
- Marlboro Middle SchoolMiddle · 935 students
- Frank J. Dugan Elementary SchoolElementary · 624 students
- Marlboro Elementary SchoolElementary · 551 students
Nearby schools
- Marlboro High School0.8 mi · 1,700
- Marlboro Middle School1.0 mi · 935
- Marlboro Elementary School1.4 mi · 551
- Frank J. Dugan Elementary School1.8 mi · 624
- David C Abbott Early Learning Center2.1 mi · 218
- Robertsville Elementary School2.3 mi · 438
Frequently asked questions
About Frank Defino Central Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Frank Defino Central Elementary School?
Frank Defino Central Elementary School enrolls approximately 510 students in grades KG-05.
Is Frank Defino Central Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Frank Defino Central Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Frank Defino Central Elementary School have?
Frank Defino Central Elementary School employs 48 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.7:1.
What is the student diversity at Frank Defino Central Elementary School?
Student demographics at Frank Defino Central Elementary School are roughly 58% White, 9% Hispanic, 2% Black, 27% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is Frank Defino Central Elementary School public or private?
Frank Defino Central Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Marlboro Township School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.