Frederic A. Priff Elementary School

Frederic A. Priff Elementary School is one of the low-enrollment elementary schools in WARETOWN, New Jersey, run under Ocean Township School District, with 241 students on its rolls from grades 3 through 6. Compared to the state average of about 405 students per school, that is 40% smaller than typical.

Ocean Township School District comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 558 students; Frederic A. Priff Elementary School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Frederic A. Priff Elementary School lists that White students make up the majority at 75%. The remainder breaks down as 15% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 2% Black. By comparison, Ocean County as a whole is about 83% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Frederic A. Priff Elementary School reports 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. An estimated 44% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Frederic A. Priff Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.9%, the actual is 35.9%, a residual of -6.0 points.

In the broader community, Ocean County reports that median household earnings sit near $89,863, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Ocean County runs 117 public schools (combined enrollment of about 66,051 students), of which Frederic A. Priff Elementary School is one.

Waretown Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Frederic A. Priff Elementary School comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 37.0%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Frederic A. Priff Elementary School's enrollment has climbed 27% since 2018, when it stood at 190 (now 241). White enrollment moved from 91% to 75% across the same window. Class-load math has rose: from 8.5:1 in 2018 to 16.2:1 in 2025.

On allk12, recent activity here tends to focus on school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.