Maple Place Middle School

Maple Place Middle School operates as a tight-knit junior high in OCEANPORT, New Jersey, operated by Oceanport School District. Current enrollment sits at 256 students spanning grades 5 through 8. That puts it 56% leaner than the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 578 students.

Oceanport School District comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 610 students; Maple Place Middle School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Maple Place Middle School shows that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 7% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 2% Black. The wider county runs roughly 74% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school reports having 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.9:1, putting Maple Place Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 8% of students are eligible 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 somewhat below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Maple Place Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 61.7%; this one delivers 61.4%.

Around the school, census data for Monmouth County shows median household earnings sit near $124,845, about 51% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Monmouth County's 186 public schools (combined enrollment of about 91,053 students), Maple Place Middle School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Gregory Elementary School, roughly 0.9 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Maple Place Middle School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 32.9%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Maple Place Middle School's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 252 (now 256). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 9.3:1 today.

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