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Manalapan-Englishtown Middle School
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NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 79 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 62 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 1 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 58% 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 Manalapan-Englishtown Middle School
Manalapan-Englishtown Middle School operates as a well-populated 6-8 campus in Manalapan, New Jersey, run under Manalapan-Englishtown Regional School District. Current enrollment sits at 1,207 students spanning grades 7 through 8. That puts it 109% bigger than the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 578 students.
Manalapan-Englishtown Middle School is one of 8 schools operated by Manalapan-Englishtown Regional School District, a district that instructs 4,502 students overall.
On the student-mix side, Manalapan-Englishtown Middle School shows that White students make up the majority at 69%; the rest consists of 13% Asian, 12% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Black.
On the income-and-resources front, Manalapan-Englishtown Middle School logs 87 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.9:1. The state averages around 10.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 15% of students at Manalapan-Englishtown Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Monmouth County (around 29%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Manalapan-Englishtown Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 58.0%; this one delivers 61.3%.
Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Monmouth County) logs that median household income runs about $124,845, 51% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Manalapan-Englishtown Middle School is one of 186 public schools in Monmouth County (combined enrollment of about 91,053 students).
Nearest neighbor: Wemrock Brook School, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Manalapan-Englishtown Middle School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Manalapan-Englishtown Middle School at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 64.3%.
Manalapan-Englishtown Middle School operates from a low-density location.
Five-year trend. Manalapan-Englishtown Middle School's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 1,223 (now 1,207). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 76% to 69% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 12.1:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 today.
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