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Lloyd Road Elementary School
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Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 63 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 42 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 7 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 50% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 46% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Lloyd Road Elementary School
Located at 401 LLOYD ROAD, in ABERDEEN, New Jersey, Lloyd Road Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary-level community that instructs 519 students (grades 4 through 5), run under Matawan-Aberdeen Regional School District. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 405 students each, so Lloyd Road Elementary School sits 28% bigger than that benchmark.
Within Matawan-Aberdeen Regional School District, which oversees 7 schools and 3,912 students, Lloyd Road Elementary School is one campus in the system.
On the student-mix side, Lloyd Road Elementary School records that the most-represented group is White (55%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 24% Hispanic, 8% Black, 6% multiracial, 5% Asian. By comparison, Monmouth County as a whole is about 74% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.
On the resource side, Lloyd Road Elementary School shows 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. Roughly 37% of students at Lloyd Road Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
After controlling for student poverty, Lloyd Road Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.0%, the actual is 50.2%, a residual of +4.2 points.
In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Monmouth County put the typical household earns roughly $124,845 per year, about 51% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Lloyd Road Elementary School is one of 186 public schools in Monmouth County (combined enrollment of about 91,053 students).
The closest other public school is Cambridge Park Elementary School, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lloyd Road Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Lloyd Road Elementary School at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 56.6%.
Lloyd Road Elementary School operates from a suburban location.
Over the past 7-year window. Lloyd Road Elementary School's enrollment has ticked down 10% since 2018, when it stood at 576 (now 519). Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 17% to 24%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 11.4:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 today.
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