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Freehold Borough High School
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 39 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Freehold Borough High School
Located at 2 Robertsville Road, in FREEHOLD, New Jersey, Freehold Borough High School is a reasonably sized high school that instructs 1,376 students (grades 9 through 12), one of the schools within Freehold Regional High School District. Compared to the state average of about 929 students per school, that is 48% larger than typical.
Within Freehold Regional High School District, which oversees 6 schools and 9,784 students, Freehold Borough High School is one campus in the system.
Demographically, Freehold Borough High School reports that the largest single group is Hispanic at 42%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder comes out to 39% White, 10% Asian, 7% Black. By comparison, Monmouth County as a whole is about 13% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the resource side, Freehold Borough High School reports 97 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.7:1 average. An estimated 41% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Monmouth County (around 29%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Freehold Borough High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 43.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 42.5%.
In the surrounding community, census data for Monmouth County shows median household earnings sit near $124,845, roughly 51% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Freehold Borough High School is one of 186 public schools in Monmouth County (combined enrollment of about 91,053 students).
Freehold Learning Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Freehold Borough High School. On composite proficiency, Freehold Borough High School comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 54.0%.
The school occupies a residential site.
Looking at the recent track record. Freehold Borough High School's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 1,400 (now 1,376). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 53% to 39%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 today.
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