Memorial Elementary School
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 57 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 15 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 14 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Memorial Elementary School
Set in FREEHOLD, New Jersey, Memorial Elementary School is a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus, run under Howell Township Public School District. It instructs 414 students across grades K through 5.
Howell Township Public School District runs 12 schools in total, collectively educating 6,047 students. Memorial Elementary School is one of those campuses.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Memorial Elementary School reports that the largest single group is White, at 71% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school shows 14% Hispanic, 7% Asian, 4% multiracial, 3% Black. Compared to Monmouth County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.3:1. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 21% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than Monmouth County's rate of about 29%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Memorial Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.9%, the actual is 43.6%, a residual of -11.3 points.
In the area at large, 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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Memorial Elementary School is one of 186 public schools in Monmouth County (combined enrollment of about 91,053 students).
Nearest neighbor: Adelphia Early Learning Center, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Memorial Elementary School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 45.0%.
The school occupies an outer-ring site.
Trend over the last 7 years. Memorial Elementary School's enrollment has grew 20% since 2018, when it stood at 344 (now 414).
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