Lakewood Early Childhood Center

Lakewood Early Childhood Center is a K-5 school of small scale in LAKEWOOD, New Jersey, part of Lakewood Township School District, educateing 248 students in grades pre-K through K. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 405 students each, so Lakewood Early Childhood Center sits 39% leaner than that benchmark.

Lakewood Township School District runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 4,193 students. Lakewood Early Childhood Center is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Lakewood Early Childhood Center lists that 64% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder is composed of 31% White, 5% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 11%.

Looking at school resources, Lakewood Early Childhood Center logs 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 5.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting Lakewood Early Childhood Center tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 85% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Ocean County runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Ocean County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $89,863 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Lakewood Early Childhood Center is one of 117 public schools in Ocean County (combined enrollment of about 66,051 students).

The closest other public school is Ella G Clarke Elementary School, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lakewood Early Childhood Center has climbed 23%, going from 202 students in 2018 to 248 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment shrank from 75% to 64% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 202.0:1 in 2018 to 5.3:1 today.

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