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How has Joseph C. Caruso School changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
595
Elementary
DISTRICT 374 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·KEANSBURG SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340786003884
Joseph C. Caruso School
81 Frances Place, KEANSBURG, NJ 07734 · (732) 787-2007 · Monmouth County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL595 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 6% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
9.6:1
62 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.9:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
75%
449 students
DISTRICT 72% · STATE 41%
Community
1
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 97 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 107 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 76 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 113 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 83 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 119 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (97) is 18% smaller than its 5th grade class (119).
Student demographics
69%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · 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
Students here typically continue to
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Keansburg School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
20.4%
NJ avg 53.1% . +1.9pp since 2023
Math
17.3%
NJ avg 41.6% . +2.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 20 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 17 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 20.4% | 17.3% |
| 2023-24 | 18.5% | 14.7% |
% 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
16.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
24.9%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 16% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 25% 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 Joseph C. Caruso School
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joseph C. Caruso School this school | 595 | 75.5% | 16.3% |
| Phillipsburg Elementary School PHILLIPSBURG | 621 | 77.0% | 26.3% |
| Phillipsburg Early Childhood Learning Center PHILLIPSBURG | 449 | 73.7% | N/A |
| Child Family Center MILLVILLE | 554 | 75.3% | N/A |
| Joseph A. Citta Elementary School TOMS RIVER | 511 | 73.8% | 24.0% |
| Philipsburg Primary School PHILLIPSBURG | 420 | 76.2% | N/A |
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 Joseph C. Caruso School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Monmouth County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 16.3% | #1,178 of 1,290 | #85 of 89 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 17.3% | #1,194 of 1,319 ▼ 9 | #87 of 93 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 20.4% | #1,223 of 1,319 ▲ 3 | #88 of 93 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 595 | #235 of 1,562 | #6 of 112 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.6:1 | #261 of 1,390 | #28 of 98 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.9% | #189 of 1,392 | #5 of 98 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 75.5% | #277 of 1,481 | #14 of 105 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +5.5% | #365 of 545 | #29 of 46 |
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
595
-111 (-16%) vs 2020
+26% since 1990-91, when it was 471
Student : Teacher
9.6:1
was 7.9:1
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 | 595 | 61.7 | 9.6:1 | 75% (449) |
| 2023-24 | 638 | 59.2 | 10.8:1 | 49% (312) |
| 2022-23 | 667 | 60.3 | 11.1:1 | 49% (326) |
| 2020-21 | 706 | 89 | 7.9:1 | 51% (360) |
| 2017-18 | 564 | 81.5 | 6.9:1 | 48% (268) |
| 2015-16 | 213 | 25 | 8.5:1 | 77% (165) |
| 2010-11 | 231 | 19 | 12.2:1 | 69% (159) |
| 2000-01 | 312 | 24 | 13.0:1 | 61% (190) |
| 1990-91 | 471 | 36 | 13.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Joseph C. Caruso School.
Since 2017-18: students up 5% (564 to 595); teachers down 24% (81.5 to 61.7).
About Joseph C. Caruso School
Among the schools in KEANSBURG, New Jersey, is Joseph C. Caruso School, a mid-sized elementary school. It teaches 595 students in kindergarten through 5. By comparison, elementary schools in New Jersey enroll about 405 students on average.
Besides Joseph C. Caruso School, Keansburg School District runs 3 other schools. The district enrolls 1,444 students.
No group is above 50% at Joseph C. Caruso School; the largest is White, at 41%. Beyond that, enrollment is 33% Hispanic, 16% Black, and 8% multiracial. The White share of the county population is higher, at 74%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Joseph C. Caruso School scores 69%.
Staffing at Joseph C. Caruso School comes to 61.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 9.6:1. The school's 9.6:1 compares with an average of 11.4:1 for elementary schools in New Jersey. On the income side, 75% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is above the 29% average among public schools in Monmouth County.
On the allk12 Grade, Joseph C. Caruso School lands at D, ahead of 6% of New Jersey public elementary schools.
Joseph C. Caruso School sits between the top and bottom 10% of New Jersey schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate across its state test results of 16.3% and a predicted 24.9%.
For Monmouth County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $124,845, about 51% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 4%. The county has 186 public schools and about 91,053 students.
A public school about 0.6 miles away, Joseph R. Bolger Middle School, is the closest to Joseph C. Caruso School. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Joseph C. Caruso School comes in 6th of 6 nearby schools on average proficiency.
By NCES locale, the school is Suburb: Large, or in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment figures show a decrease of 111 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25. The ratio of students to teachers went from 7.9:1 to 9.6:1 over the same years.
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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 Keansburg School District
- Keansburg High SchoolHigh · 379 students
- Joseph R. Bolger Middle SchoolMiddle · 318 students
- Keansburg Early Learning CenterElementary · 152 students
Other schools in KEANSBURG
- Keansburg High SchoolHigh · 379 students
- Joseph R. Bolger Middle SchoolMiddle · 318 students
- Keansburg Early Learning CenterElementary · 152 students
Nearby schools
- Joseph R. Bolger Middle School0.6 mi · 318
- Keansburg High School0.6 mi · 379
- Keansburg Early Learning Center0.6 mi · 152
- Ocean Avenue Elementary School1.0 mi · 283
- Lillian Drive School1.3 mi · 260
- Raritan High School1.5 mi · 781
Frequently asked questions
About Joseph C. Caruso SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Joseph C. Caruso School?
Joseph C. Caruso School enrolls approximately 595 students in grades KG-05.
Is Joseph C. Caruso School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Joseph C. Caruso School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at Joseph C. Caruso School?
Approximately 9.6:1 students per teacher at Joseph C. Caruso School.
How diverse is Joseph C. Caruso School?
Joseph C. Caruso School reports a student body of 41% White, 33% Hispanic, 16% Black, 1% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees Joseph C. Caruso School?
Joseph C. Caruso School is overseen by Keansburg School District in Monmouth County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.