Midtown Community Elementary School

Midtown Community Elementary School is a primary school of middle-of-the-pack scale in NEPTUNE, New Jersey, part of Neptune Township School District, instructing 437 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Neptune Township School District comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 3,374 students; Midtown Community Elementary School is among them.

Demographically, Midtown Community Elementary School shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 57%. Beyond that, the school lists 35% Black, 4% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 13% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Midtown Community Elementary School has 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.9:1. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 90% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Monmouth County runs at roughly 29%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Midtown Community Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 16.8%, the actual is 12.2%, a residual of -4.6 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Monmouth County put median household income runs about $124,845, 51% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Monmouth County's 186 public schools (combined enrollment of about 91,053 students), Midtown Community Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Midtown Community Elementary School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 26.6%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Five-year trend. Midtown Community Elementary School's enrollment has grew 18% since 2018, when it stood at 371 (now 437). Hispanic enrollment moved from 44% to 57% across the same window. Class-load math has rose: from 8.8:1 in 2018 to 9.9:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.