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Enrollment
1,129
High
DISTRICT 482 · STATE 929
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEPTUNE TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341116004032
Neptune High School
55 NEPTUNE BOULEVARD, NEPTUNE, NJ 07753 · (732) 776-2200 · Monmouth County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,129 STUDENTS
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Scored higher than 11% of New Jersey public high schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New Jersey public high schools
Student : Teacher
13.0:1
87 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.9:1 · STATE 12.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
66%
747 students
DISTRICT 64% · STATE 41%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 269 | 24% |
| Grade 10 | 269 | 24% |
| Grade 11 | 285 | 25% |
| Grade 12 | 306 | 27% |
Student demographics
67%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 68% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Neptune Township School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
14.4%
NJ avg 53.1% . -18.9pp since 2023
Math
11.4%
NJ avg 41.6% . +0.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 14 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 11 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 19 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 14.4% | 11.4% |
| 2023-24 | 33.3% | 10.8% |
% Meeting or Exceeding Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: NJSLA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NJ schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
15.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
29.9%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-14.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 15% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 30% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Neptune High School
Neptune High School's state test result (15.1% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neptune High School this school | 1,129 | 66.2% | 15.1% |
| Rahway High School RAHWAY | 1,286 | 63.2% | 17.3% |
| Science Park High School NEWARK | 964 | 68.0% | 78.2% |
| Woodbury Jr-Sr High School Woodbury | 818 | 71.5% | 19.4% |
| Penns Grove High School CARNEYS POINT | 632 | 69.5% | 11.9% |
| Oakcrest High School MAYS LANDING | 949 | 66.3% | 15.7% |
Matched among New Jersey high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Neptune High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Monmouth County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 15.1% | #347 of 397 | #29 of 30 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 11.4% | #318 of 400 ▲ 9 | #27 of 31 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 14.4% | #368 of 395 ▼ 36 | #30 of 31 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,129 | #146 of 442 | #11 of 36 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.0:1 | #245 of 388 | #22 of 31 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.2% | #68 of 389 | #3 of 31 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 66.2% | #83 of 405 | #4 of 31 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.5% | #44 of 200 | #7 of 24 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,129
-141 (-11%) vs 2020
-2% since 1990-91, when it was 1,147
Student : Teacher
13.0:1
was 11.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,129 | 87 | 13.0:1 | 66% (747) |
| 2023-24 | 1,102 | 91 | 12.1:1 | 56% (618) |
| 2022-23 | 1,203 | 95 | 12.7:1 | 34% (411) |
| 2020-21 | 1,270 | 115 | 11.0:1 | 50% (629) |
| 2017-18 | 1,336 | 105.3 | 12.7:1 | 49% (660) |
| 2015-16 | 1,404 | 101 | 13.9:1 | 53% (740) |
| 2010-11 | 1,299 | 89 | 14.6:1 | 46% (602) |
| 2000-01 | 1,106 | 78 | 14.2:1 | 33% (368) |
| 1990-91 | 1,147 | 83 | 13.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Neptune High School.
Since 2017-18: students down 15% (1,336 to 1,129); teachers down 17% (105.3 to 87).
About Neptune High School
Neptune High School is one of the public schools in NEPTUNE, New Jersey. It is a mid-sized high school. The school teaches grades 9 through 12 and enrolls 1,129 students. The school is 22% above the average for high schools in New Jersey.
In Neptune Township School District, 7 schools enroll a combined 3,374 students.
Hispanic students make up 40% of enrollment at Neptune High School, the largest share of any group. Other reported shares: 37% Black, 15% White, 4% multiracial, and 3% Asian. That compares with about 13% Hispanic among all Monmouth County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 67%.
A staff of 87 full-time-equivalent teachers puts the student-to-teacher ratio at 13.0:1. It is about the same as the 12.7:1 average for high schools in New Jersey. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 66%. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Monmouth County is 29%.
Neptune High School earns a D on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 11% of New Jersey public high schools.
Neptune High School trails its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results by 14.9 points (15.1% versus 29.9%), a bottom-10% result in New Jersey on BeatsExpectations.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Monmouth County show that median household income comes to about $124,845, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 51% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 4%. Monmouth County counts 186 public schools with about 91,053 students.
A public school about 0.2 miles away, Monmouth County Academy of Allied Health and Science, is the closest to Neptune High School. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools with test data average 27.2% proficiency; Neptune High School posts 15.1%.
For locale, NCES codes Neptune High School as Suburb: Large.
The school shrank from 1,270 students in 2020-21 to 1,129 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 11.0:1; by 2024-25 it was 13.0:1.
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Monmouth County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
645,353
Census ACS
Median income
$124,845
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
51%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
186
91,053 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Neptune Township School District
- Neptune Middle SchoolMiddle · 595 students
- Midtown Community Elementary SchoolElementary · 437 students
- Summerfield Elementary SchoolElementary · 389 students
- Green Grove Elementary SchoolElementary · 296 students
- Gables Elementary SchoolElementary · 284 students
- Shark River Hills Elementary SchoolElementary · 244 students
Other schools in NEPTUNE
- Neptune Middle SchoolMiddle · 595 students
- College Achieve Greater Asbury Park Charter School DistrictCombined · 522 students
- Midtown Community Elementary SchoolElementary · 437 students
- Summerfield Elementary SchoolElementary · 389 students
- Monmouth County Academy of Allied Health and ScienceHigh · 300 students
- Green Grove Elementary SchoolElementary · 296 students
Nearby schools
- Monmouth County Academy of Allied Health and Science0.2 mi · 300
- Neptune Middle School0.2 mi · 595
- Gables Elementary School0.3 mi · 284
- Woodrow Wilson0.6 mi · 264
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School1.0 mi · 195
- Midtown Community Elementary School1.0 mi · 437
Frequently asked questions
About Neptune High SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Neptune High School?
Neptune High School enrolls approximately 1,129 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does Neptune High School serve?
Neptune High School serves grades 09-12.
How many teachers does Neptune High School have?
Neptune High School employs 87 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.0:1.
How diverse is Neptune High School?
Neptune High School reports a student body of 15% White, 40% Hispanic, 37% Black, 3% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is Neptune High School public or private?
Neptune High School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Neptune Township School District.
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