Long Beach Island Grade School

Long Beach Island Grade School is one of the minimally staffed K-5 schools in SHIP BOTTOM, New Jersey, part of Long Beach Island School District, with 92 students on its rolls from grades 3 through 6. That puts it 77% smaller than the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 405 students.

Long Beach Island School District runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 196 students. Long Beach Island Grade School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Long Beach Island Grade School shows that nearly all students (86%) are White. The remainder reads as 8% Hispanic, 7% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 5.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. Around 14% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Ocean County runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Long Beach Island Grade School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 58.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 49.6%.

In the surrounding 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), Long Beach Island Grade School is one campus in the mix.

Ethel A. Jacobsen Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Long Beach Island Grade School comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 53.9%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Long Beach Island Grade School has decreased 26%, going from 125 students in 2018 to 92 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 22% to 8% across the same window.

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