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What's the biggest difference between Frank J. Dugan Elementary School and what you expected?
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Enrollment
624
Elementary
DISTRICT 464 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MARLBORO TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340972006030
Frank J. Dugan Elementary School
48 TOPANEMUS ROAD, MARLBORO, NJ 07746 · (732) 972-2110 · Monmouth County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL624 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 78% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
13.2:1
47 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.6:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
12%
72 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 | 86 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 76 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 117 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 99 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 111 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 135 | 22% |
This year's kindergarten class (86) is 36% smaller than its 5th grade class (135).
Student demographics
45%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
74.3%
NJ avg 53.1% . +3.1pp since 2023
Math
67.8%
NJ avg 41.6% . -0.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 74 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 68 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 74.3% | 67.8% |
| 2023-24 | 71.2% | 68.0% |
% 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
65.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.9%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 65% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 60% 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 J. Dugan Elementary School
Frank J. Dugan Elementary School's state test result (65.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frank J. Dugan Elementary School this school | 624 | 11.5% | 65.0% |
| Marlboro Elementary School MARLBORO | 551 | 8.7% | 68.0% |
| Lakeview Elementary School DENVILLE | 699 | 10.7% | 68.3% |
| Whiton Elementary School Neshanic Station | 617 | 13.1% | 64.0% |
| Wemrock Brook School MANALAPAN | 513 | 15.8% | 71.1% |
| Helen L Beeler MARLTON | 557 | 16.2% | 41.0% |
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 J. Dugan Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Monmouth County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 65.0% | #238 of 1,290 | #19 of 89 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 67.8% | #280 of 1,319 ▼ 35 | #27 of 93 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 74.3% | #178 of 1,319 ▲ 41 | #18 of 93 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 624 | #191 of 1,562 | #4 of 112 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.2:1 | #1,120 of 1,390 | #94 of 98 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 44.9% | #941 of 1,392 | #52 of 98 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 11.5% | #1,212 of 1,481 | #82 of 105 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +4.9% | #381 of 545 | #30 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
624
+1 (+0%) vs 2020
-16% since 1990-91, when it was 744
Student : Teacher
13.2:1
was 12.7:1
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 | 624 | 47.4 | 13.2:1 | 12% (72) |
| 2023-24 | 636 | 48.9 | 13.0:1 | 6% (36) |
| 2022-23 | 649 | 45.9 | 14.1:1 | 1% (8) |
| 2020-21 | 623 | 49 | 12.7:1 | 4% (23) |
| 2017-18 | 595 | 49.4 | 12.1:1 | 4% (24) |
| 2015-16 | 567 | 49 | 11.6:1 | 2% (10) |
| 2010-11 | 723 | 36 | 20.1:1 | 2% (17) |
| 2000-01 | 777 | 49 | 15.9:1 | 3% (21) |
| 1990-91 | 744 | 40 | 18.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Frank J. Dugan Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 5% (595 to 624); teachers down 4% (49.4 to 47.4).
About Frank J. Dugan Elementary School
Frank J. Dugan Elementary School is a public elementary school run by Marlboro Township School District in MARLBORO, New Jersey. It enrolls 624 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are kindergarten through 5. That is 54% larger than the average of about 405 students for elementary schools in New Jersey.
Marlboro Township School District has 8 schools; together they serve 4,481 students.
The share of White students at Frank J. Dugan Elementary School is 72%, a majority. The school is also 18% Asian and 7% Hispanic. Census estimates put Monmouth County at about 74% White, close to the school's figure. A diversity index of 45% means there is a 45% chance two randomly chosen students at Frank J. Dugan Elementary School are from different groups.
Frank J. Dugan Elementary School lists 47.4 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 13.2 students per teacher. The gap from the 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey is 1.7 students per teacher. About 12% of students at Frank J. Dugan Elementary School are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Monmouth County is 29%.
Among New Jersey public elementary schools, Frank J. Dugan Elementary School outscored 78%, which works out to an A- on the allk12 Grade.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Frank J. Dugan Elementary School would score about 59.9%. It scores 65.0%, 5.2 points above that figure.
For the population of Monmouth County, median household income comes to about $124,845, 51% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Monmouth County counts 186 public schools with about 91,053 students.
A public school about 0.4 miles away, Marlboro Elementary School, is the closest to Frank J. Dugan Elementary School. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Frank J. Dugan Elementary School. On proficiency, Frank J. Dugan Elementary School is ahead of the 63.2% nearby average, ranking 6th of 9.
Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Large: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment held near 624, starting from 623.
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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
- Marlboro Elementary SchoolElementary · 551 students
- Frank Defino Central Elementary SchoolElementary · 510 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
- Marlboro Elementary SchoolElementary · 551 students
- Frank Defino Central Elementary SchoolElementary · 510 students
Nearby schools
- Marlboro Elementary School0.4 mi · 551
- Marlboro Middle School1.0 mi · 935
- Marlboro High School1.4 mi · 1,700
- Lafayette Mills School1.8 mi · 459
- Frank Defino Central Elementary School1.8 mi · 510
- Asher Holmes Elementary School2.1 mi · 444
Frequently asked questions
About Frank J. Dugan Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Frank J. Dugan Elementary School?
Frank J. Dugan Elementary School enrolls approximately 624 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Frank J. Dugan Elementary School serve?
Frank J. Dugan Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Frank J. Dugan Elementary School?
Approximately 13.2:1 students per teacher at Frank J. Dugan Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Frank J. Dugan Elementary School?
Student demographics at Frank J. Dugan Elementary School are roughly 72% White, 7% Hispanic, 2% Black, 18% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees Frank J. Dugan Elementary School?
Frank J. Dugan Elementary School is overseen by Marlboro Township School District in Monmouth County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.