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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at Freehold Intermediate School this year?
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Enrollment
498
Middle
DISTRICT 508 · STATE 578
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FREEHOLD BOROUGH SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340558003790
Freehold Intermediate School
280 PARK AVENUE, FREEHOLD, NJ 07728 · (732) 761-2156 · Monmouth County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL498 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 46% of New Jersey public middle schools
- C-Test 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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
9.8:1
51 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.1:1 · STATE 10.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
81%
401 students
DISTRICT 80% · STATE 41%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 162 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 165 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 171 | 34% |
Student demographics
34%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 36% · 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
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Freehold Borough School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
39.8%
NJ avg 53.1% . +1.1pp since 2023
Math
24.4%
NJ avg 41.6% . +2.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 24 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 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 39.8% | 24.4% |
| 2023-24 | 38.7% | 21.9% |
% 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
28.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
22.1%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 28% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 22% 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 Freehold Intermediate School
Freehold Intermediate School's state test result (28.5% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Freehold Intermediate School this school | 498 | 80.5% | 28.5% |
| Smalley Elementary School Bound Brook | 424 | 81.6% | 21.9% |
| Washington Middle School HARRISON | 466 | 85.0% | 33.0% |
| Red Bank Middle School RED BANK | 600 | 83.3% | 35.4% |
| North Plainfield Middle School North Plainfield | 538 | 78.6% | 21.7% |
| Somerset School North Plainfield | 485 | 82.1% | 18.5% |
Matched among New Jersey middle 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 Freehold Intermediate School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Monmouth County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 28.5% | #344 of 433 | #29 of 33 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 24.4% | #342 of 437 ▲ 2 | #31 of 35 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 39.8% | #342 of 437 ▼ 2 | #31 of 35 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 498 | #254 of 445 | #19 of 35 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.8:1 | #109 of 417 | #20 of 32 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 34.1% | #365 of 419 | #24 of 32 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 80.5% | #31 of 436 | #3 of 33 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +1.8% | #102 of 122 | N/A |
Ranked against other public middle 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
498
-37 (-7%) vs 2020
+23% since 1990-91, when it was 405
Student : Teacher
9.8:1
was 13.7:1
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 | 498 | 50.6 | 9.8:1 | 81% (401) |
| 2023-24 | 519 | 47.9 | 10.8:1 | 80% (416) |
| 2022-23 | 541 | 48.4 | 11.2:1 | 71% (382) |
| 2020-21 | 535 | 39 | 13.7:1 | 76% (407) |
| 2017-18 | 489 | 38.9 | 12.6:1 | 71% (347) |
| 2015-16 | 468 | 35 | 13.4:1 | 72% (339) |
| 2010-11 | 393 | 27 | 14.6:1 | 54% (211) |
| 2000-01 | 333 | 23 | 14.5:1 | 51% (170) |
| 1990-91 | 405 | 26 | 15.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Freehold Intermediate School.
Since 2017-18: students up 2% (489 to 498); teachers up 30% (38.9 to 50.6).
About Freehold Intermediate School
Freehold Intermediate School is a mid-sized middle school serving families in FREEHOLD, New Jersey. Enrollment stands at 498 students, covering grades 6 through 8.
Freehold Intermediate School is one school in a 3-school district, Freehold Borough School District, which enrolls 1,523 students.
By race and ethnicity, Freehold Intermediate School is 80% Hispanic. Next come 10% White, 6% Black, and 2% Asian. The county population is about 13% Hispanic. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 34%.
On staff are 50.6 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 9.8:1. Middle schools in New Jersey have an average ratio of 10.9:1. About 81% of students at Freehold Intermediate School are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Monmouth County average 29%.
On the allk12 Grade, Freehold Intermediate School lands at B-, ahead of 46% of New Jersey public middle schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Freehold Intermediate School falls in the middle 80% of New Jersey schools: 28.5% actual against 22.1% predicted.
In Monmouth County, the median household earns about $124,845 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 51%, and about 4% of people live in poverty. Monmouth County has 186 public schools with about 91,053 students, including Freehold Intermediate School.
Park Avenue Elementary School is less than a tenth of a mile away, making it the nearest public school. Freehold Intermediate School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Freehold Intermediate School at 7th of 7.
Locale data from NCES put Freehold Intermediate School in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more (Suburb: Large).
In 2020-21, Freehold Intermediate School enrolled 535 students. By 2024-25, that number had fallen to 498. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (9.8:1) than in 2020-21 (13.7:1).
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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 Freehold Borough School District
- Freehold Learning CenterElementary · 562 students
- Park Avenue Elementary SchoolElementary · 463 students
Other schools in FREEHOLD
- Freehold Borough High SchoolHigh · 1,376 students
- Dwight D. Eisenhower SchoolMiddle · 582 students
- Clifton T. Barkalow SchoolMiddle · 574 students
- Freehold Learning CenterElementary · 562 students
- Marshall W. Errickson SchoolElementary · 464 students
- Park Avenue Elementary SchoolElementary · 463 students
Nearby schools
- Park Avenue Elementary School0.0 mi · 463
- West Freehold School1.2 mi · 447
- Early Childhood Learning Center1.2 mi · 95
- Clifton T. Barkalow School1.3 mi · 574
- Freehold Borough High School1.3 mi · 1,376
- Laura Donovan School1.7 mi · 441
Frequently asked questions
About Freehold Intermediate SchoolHow many students attend Freehold Intermediate School?
Freehold Intermediate School enrolls approximately 498 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Freehold Intermediate School serve?
Freehold Intermediate School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Freehold Intermediate School?
Approximately 9.8:1 students per teacher at Freehold Intermediate School.
How diverse is Freehold Intermediate School?
Freehold Intermediate School reports a student body of 10% White, 80% Hispanic, 6% Black, 2% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees Freehold Intermediate School?
Freehold Intermediate School is overseen by Freehold Borough School District in Monmouth County.
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