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Manasquan High School
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NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 58 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 48 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 17 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 15 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 50% 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 Manasquan High School
Manasquan High School is one of the medium-sized senior highs in Manasquan, New Jersey, operated by Manasquan School District, with 917 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12.
Across the 2 schools in Manasquan School District (1,392 students total), Manasquan High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
In terms of who attends, Manasquan High School records that 79% of the student body identifies as White; the rest comes out to 17% Hispanic.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 79 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 16% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Monmouth County runs at roughly 29%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, Manasquan High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.5%, the actual is 49.8%, a residual of -7.7 points.
In the broader community, Monmouth County reports that median household earnings sit near $124,845, 51% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Monmouth County's 186 public schools (combined enrollment of about 91,053 students), Manasquan High School is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is Manasquan Elementary School, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Manasquan High School at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 65.7%.
The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Manasquan High School has contracted 3%, going from 945 students in 2018 to 917 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 10% to 17% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 in 2025.
On allk12, the feed for Manasquan High School typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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