Lacey Township High School

Lacey Township High School is a reasonably sized secondary school in LANOKA HARBOR, New Jersey, run under Lacey Township School District. The school enrolls 1,119 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 20% bigger than the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 929 students.

Lacey Township School District comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 3,913 students; Lacey Township High School is among them.

On demographics, Lacey Township High School logs that nearly all students (81%) are White. Beyond that, the school lists 14% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Ocean County as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 81 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 31% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Ocean County runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Lacey Township High School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 49.3%; this one comes in at 33.5%, -15.8 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Ocean County) shows that median household earnings sit near $89,863, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Ocean County's 117 public schools (combined enrollment of about 66,051 students), Lacey Township High School is one campus in the mix.

Lacey Township Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lacey Township High School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 37.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lacey Township High School has decreased 7%, going from 1,204 students in 2018 to 1,119 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 89% to 81% over that span. Class-load math has rose: from 11.8:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 in 2025.

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