Knollwood School

Located at 224 HANCE ROAD, in FAIR HAVEN, New Jersey, Knollwood School is a reasonably sized 6-8 campus that hosts 502 students (grades 4 through 8), part of Fair Haven School District.

Knollwood School is one of 2 schools operated by Fair Haven School District, a district that works with 966 students overall.

On demographics, Knollwood School lists that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 3% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 74% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 10.9:1 average. Roughly 1% of students at Knollwood School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. 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, Knollwood School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 65.8%; this one delivers 71.8%.

In the surrounding community, Monmouth County reports that median household income runs about $124,845, 51% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Monmouth County's 186 public schools (combined enrollment of about 91,053 students), Knollwood School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Red Bank Regional High School, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Knollwood School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Knollwood School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 48.8%.

Knollwood School operates from an outer-ring location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 14%: 584 students in 2018 compared to 502 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 10.8:1 in 2018 to 8.8:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.