Enrollment
130
Elementary
STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SPRING LAKE BOROUGH·NCES 341557004106
H W Mountz Elementary School
411 Tuttle Ave, Spring Lake, NJ 07762 · (732) 449-6380 · Monmouth County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL130 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 98% 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.
- 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
5.6:1
23 FTE teachers
STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
4%
5 students
STATE 41%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 22 | 17% |
| Kindergarten | 7 | 5% |
| Grade 1 | 18 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 11 | 8% |
| Grade 3 | 14 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 5 | 4% |
| Grade 5 | 13 | 10% |
| Grade 6 | 14 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 13 | 10% |
| Grade 8 | 13 | 10% |
Student demographics
10%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
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
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NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
92.7%
NJ avg 53.1% . +0.7pp since 2023
Math
90.9%
NJ avg 41.6% . +4.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 93 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 91 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 92.7% | 90.9% |
| 2023-24 | 92.0% | 86.6% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NJ schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
86.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
64.1%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+22.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 86% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 64% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 22 points, placing it in New Jersey's top 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 H W Mountz Elementary School
H W Mountz Elementary School's state test result (86.1% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| H W Mountz Elementary School this school | 130 | 3.8% | 86.1% |
| Nokomis School Medford Lakes | 126 | 4.0% | N/A |
| Port Republic Elementary School District PORT REPUBLIC | 110 | 2.7% | 57.1% |
| Thomas A. Edison Elementary School WESTMONT | 159 | 3.1% | 64.5% |
| Island Heights Elementary School ISLAND HEIGHTS | 142 | 2.1% | 65.3% |
| Wenonah Elementary School WENONAH | 158 | 3.2% | 60.4% |
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 H W Mountz Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Monmouth County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 86.1% | #9 of 1,290 | #2 of 89 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 90.9% | #8 of 1,319 ▲ 14 | #2 of 93 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 92.7% | #8 of 1,319 ▼ 1 | #1 of 93 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 130 | #1,485 of 1,562 | #108 of 112 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 3.8% | #1,371 of 1,481 | #97 of 105 |
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
130
-39 (-23%) vs 2020
-17% since 1990-91, when it was 156
Student : Teacher
5.6:1
was 7.3:1
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 | 130 | 23.3 | 5.6:1 | 4% (5) |
| 2023-24 | 141 | 22.5 | 6.3:1 | N/A |
| 2022-23 | 152 | 21.4 | 7.1:1 | 2% (3) |
| 2020-21 | 169 | 23 | 7.3:1 | 2% (3) |
| 2017-18 | 196 | 26 | 7.5:1 | 0% (0) |
| 2015-16 | 207 | 26 | 8.0:1 | 0% (0) |
| 2010-11 | 267 | 19 | 14.1:1 | 1% (3) |
| 2000-01 | 316 | 29 | 10.9:1 | 1% (2) |
| 1990-91 | 156 | 16 | 9.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for H W Mountz Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 34% (196 to 130); teachers down 11% (26 to 23.3).
About H W Mountz Elementary School
H W Mountz Elementary School is a small elementary school in Spring Lake, New Jersey. The school had 130 students in pre-K through 8 in 2024-25. An average school in this group (elementary schools in New Jersey) has about 405 students.
Spring Lake Borough operates H W Mountz Elementary School.
Most students at H W Mountz Elementary School are White: 95% of enrollment. Other students are 2% Hispanic and 2% Black. That is higher than the 74% White share among all Monmouth County residents. By the diversity index, H W Mountz Elementary School comes in at 10%.
Federal staffing data show 23.3 full-time-equivalent teachers at H W Mountz Elementary School and a ratio of 5.6:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in New Jersey is 11.4:1, higher than at this school. The count of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch equals 4% of enrollment. That rate is below the 29% average among public schools in Monmouth County.
allk12 grades H W Mountz Elementary School an A+. The grade compares the school only with New Jersey public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
H W Mountz Elementary School outperforms its prediction by 22.1 points. The model expects 64.1% for a school with its free or reduced-price lunch share in New Jersey; the school's rate is 86.1%.
County data help place the school in context: in Monmouth County, median household income is about $124,845, about 51% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 4%. H W Mountz Elementary School is among the 186 public schools in Monmouth County.
The nearest other public school, Spring Lake Heights Elementary School, is about 0.4 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. H W Mountz Elementary School is 2nd of 8 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Suburb: Large.
Enrollment was 169 in 2020-21 and 130 in 2024-25, a decrease of 39 students. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 7.3:1 to 5.6:1.
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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
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Frequently asked questions
About H W Mountz Elementary SchoolHow many students attend H W Mountz Elementary School?
H W Mountz Elementary School enrolls approximately 130 students in grades PK-08.
What grades does H W Mountz Elementary School serve?
H W Mountz Elementary School serves grades PK-08.
How many students per teacher at H W Mountz Elementary School?
Approximately 5.6:1 students per teacher at H W Mountz Elementary School.
How diverse is H W Mountz Elementary School?
H W Mountz Elementary School reports a student body of 95% White, 2% Hispanic, 2% Black.
Who oversees H W Mountz Elementary School?
H W Mountz Elementary School is overseen by Spring Lake Borough in Monmouth County.
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