Navesink Elementary School

Navesink Elementary School is a tight-knit elementary-level community in ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS, New Jersey, overseen by Middletown Township Public School District. The school enrolls 210 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 405 students each, so Navesink Elementary School sits 48% leaner than that benchmark.

Navesink Elementary School is one of 16 schools operated by Middletown Township Public School District, a district that caters to 8,752 students overall.

On demographics, Navesink Elementary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (81%). Beyond that, the school logs 9% Hispanic, 7% multiracial.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 11% of students at Navesink Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Monmouth County runs at roughly 29%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Navesink Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 60.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 74.2%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Monmouth County put the typical household earns roughly $124,845 per year, 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), Navesink Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Atlantic Highlands Elementary School, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Navesink Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Navesink Elementary School at 1st of 5; the average score across the group is 48.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Navesink Elementary School has shrank 23%, going from 274 students in 2018 to 210 in 2025.

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