Holmdel High School

Holmdel High School is a secondary school of mid-sized scale in HOLMDEL, New Jersey, run under Holmdel Township School District, enrolling 934 students in grades 9 through 12.

Holmdel Township School District comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 2,821 students; Holmdel High School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Holmdel High School shows that 72% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school lists 16% Asian, 6% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. Compared to Monmouth County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In terms of school funding signals, Holmdel High School reports 89 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.7:1 average. Roughly 3% of students at Holmdel High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Monmouth County runs at roughly 29%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Holmdel High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.6%, the actual is 61.4%, a residual of -3.3 points.

Around the school, 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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Holmdel High School is one of 186 public schools in Monmouth County (combined enrollment of about 91,053 students).

Nearest neighbor: William R. Satz School, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Holmdel High School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 61.9%.

Holmdel High School operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 936 students in 2018 compared to 934 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.