Neptune Middle School

Neptune Middle School is one of the average-sized junior highs in NEPTUNE, New Jersey, operated by Neptune Township School District, with 595 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

Across the 7 schools in Neptune Township School District (3,374 students total), Neptune Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Neptune Middle School reports that the most-represented group is Black (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 38% Hispanic, 11% White, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Monmouth County as a whole is about 6% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Neptune Middle School records 65 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 10.9:1 average. An estimated 72% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Monmouth County runs at roughly 29%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Neptune Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.0%, the actual is 27.9%, a residual of +0.9 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Monmouth County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $124,845 per year, about 51% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Monmouth County's 186 public schools (combined enrollment of about 91,053 students), Neptune Middle School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Gables Elementary School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Neptune Middle School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Neptune Middle School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 29.8%.

Neptune Middle School operates from a commuter-belt location.

Over the past 7-year window. Neptune Middle School's enrollment has fell 20% since 2018, when it stood at 741 (now 595). The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 28% to 38% over that span.

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