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Enrollment
464
Elementary
DISTRICT 369 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341011004004
Nut Swamp Elementary School
925 Nut Swamp Road, MIDDLETOWN, NJ 07748 · (732) 671-5795 · Monmouth County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL464 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 55% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- B+Test 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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
11.5:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.2:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
2%
7 students
DISTRICT 14% · STATE 41%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 70 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 77 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 77 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 86 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 76 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 78 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (70) is 10% smaller than its 5th grade class (78).
Student demographics
19%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 33% · 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
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
67.5%
NJ avg 53.1% . +4.3pp since 2023
Math
73.2%
NJ avg 41.6% . +13.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 68 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 73 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 13 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 67.5% | 73.2% |
| 2023-24 | 63.2% | 60.2% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
60.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.3%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 65% 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%.
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 Nut Swamp Elementary School
Nut Swamp Elementary School's state test result (60.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nut Swamp Elementary School this school | 464 | 1.5% | 60.5% |
| Brielle Elementary School BRIELLE | 471 | 2.3% | 62.4% |
| Shrewsbury Borough Elementary School SHREWSBURY | 439 | 0.7% | 70.0% |
| Viola L Sickles School FAIR HAVEN | 464 | 0.6% | 86.2% |
| Central School HADDONFIELD | 447 | 0.7% | 85.2% |
| Lincroft Elementary School LINCROFT | 486 | 2.9% | 58.7% |
Matched among New Jersey elementary 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 Nut Swamp Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Monmouth County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 60.5% | #326 of 1,290 | #31 of 89 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 73.2% | #192 of 1,319 ▲ 183 | #18 of 93 ▲ 21 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 67.5% | #325 of 1,319 ▲ 59 | #32 of 93 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 464 | #504 of 1,562 | #33 of 112 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.5:1 | #748 of 1,390 | #72 of 98 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 18.6% | #1,319 of 1,392 | #93 of 98 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 1.5% | #1,437 of 1,481 | #103 of 105 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -19.9% | #172 of 798 | #13 of 50 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
464
-50 (-10%) vs 2020
-16% since 1990-91, when it was 554
Student : Teacher
11.5:1
was 13.2:1
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 | 464 | 40.3 | 11.5:1 | 2% (7) |
| 2023-24 | 501 | 37.7 | 13.3:1 | 1% (5) |
| 2022-23 | 510 | 39.3 | 13.0:1 | 1% (6) |
| 2020-21 | 514 | 39 | 13.2:1 | 1% (3) |
| 2017-18 | 579 | 39 | 14.8:1 | 1% (6) |
| 2015-16 | 565 | 39 | 14.5:1 | 3% (18) |
| 2010-11 | 549 | 29 | 18.9:1 | 0% (0) |
| 2000-01 | 561 | 27 | 20.8:1 | 0% (2) |
| 1990-91 | 554 | 27 | 20.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Nut Swamp Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 20% (579 to 464); teachers up 3% (39 to 40.3).
About Nut Swamp Elementary School
Nut Swamp Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school with its address in MIDDLETOWN, New Jersey. The student body numbers 464 students, from kindergarten through 5.
The 16 schools in Middletown Township Public School District enroll 8,752 students altogether, Nut Swamp Elementary School among them.
The large majority of students at Nut Swamp Elementary School, 90%, are White. The rest of enrollment is 7% Hispanic and 2% multiracial. Among all residents of Monmouth County, the White share is about 74%. By the diversity index, Nut Swamp Elementary School comes in at 19%.
The school reported 40.3 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25 and a ratio of 11.5:1. Elementary schools in New Jersey average about 11.4:1, a similar figure. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 2%. The rate at public schools in Monmouth County averages 29%, higher than here.
allk12 grades Nut Swamp Elementary School a B. The grade compares the school only with New Jersey public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Nut Swamp Elementary School posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 60.5%, compared with a predicted 65.3%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of New Jersey schools on BeatsExpectations.
Monmouth County has about 645,353 residents, and median household income is about $124,845, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 51%, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. The public schools of Monmouth County number 186 and enroll about 91,053.
Thompson Middle School is located about 0.1 miles from Nut Swamp Elementary School. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. The nearest schools with test data average 54.6%, lower than Nut Swamp Elementary School's 60.5%.
Nut Swamp Elementary School has an NCES locale of Suburb: Large.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, Nut Swamp Elementary School went from 514 students to 464. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.2:1 in 2020-21 to 11.5:1 in 2024-25.
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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 Middletown Township Public School District
- Middletown High School SouthHigh · 1,406 students
- Middletown High School NorthHigh · 1,289 students
- Thompson Middle SchoolMiddle · 862 students
- Thorne Middle SchoolMiddle · 597 students
- Bayshore Middle SchoolMiddle · 534 students
- New Monmouth Elementary SchoolElementary · 508 students
Other schools in MIDDLETOWN
- Middletown High School SouthHigh · 1,406 students
- Middletown High School NorthHigh · 1,289 students
- Thompson Middle SchoolMiddle · 862 students
- New Monmouth Elementary SchoolElementary · 508 students
- Middletown Village Elementary SchoolElementary · 426 students
Nearby schools
- Thompson Middle School0.1 mi · 862
- Middletown High School South0.7 mi · 1,406
- River Plaza Elementary School1.8 mi · 268
- Fairview Elementary School1.8 mi · 291
- Middletown Village Elementary School2.1 mi · 426
- Red Bank Primary School2.4 mi · 543
Frequently asked questions
About Nut Swamp Elementary SchoolHow large is Nut Swamp Elementary School?
Nut Swamp Elementary School enrolls approximately 464 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Nut Swamp Elementary School serve?
Nut Swamp Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Nut Swamp Elementary School have?
Nut Swamp Elementary School employs 40 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.5:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Nut Swamp Elementary School?
At Nut Swamp Elementary School, the student body is approximately 90% White, 7% Hispanic, 0% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is Nut Swamp Elementary School public or private?
Nut Swamp Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Middletown Township Public School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.