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Enrollment
513
Elementary
DISTRICT 387 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LAKEWOOD TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340822005981
Oak Street Elem School
75 OAK STREET, LAKEWOOD, NJ 08701 · (732) 905-3670 · Ocean County
GRADES 03–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL513 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 38% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats 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
7.1:1
73 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 8.1:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
91%
469 students
DISTRICT 92% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 166 | 32% |
| Grade 4 | 113 | 22% |
| Grade 5 | 119 | 23% |
| Grade 6 | 115 | 22% |
Student demographics
26%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 25% · 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
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within Lakewood Township School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
32.8%
NJ avg 53.1% . -3.0pp since 2023
Math
21.3%
NJ avg 41.6% . +1.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 33 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 21 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 32.8% | 21.3% |
| 2023-24 | 35.8% | 20.1% |
% 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
24.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
16.1%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 24% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 16% 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 Oak Street Elem School
Oak Street Elem School's state test result (24.1% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oak Street Elem School this school | 513 | 91.4% | 24.1% |
| Spruce Street Elementary School LAKEWOOD | 554 | 92.6% | N/A |
| SALOME URENA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Newark | 516 | 87.0% | 20.1% |
| Sonia Sotomayor School No 25 ELIZABETH | 591 | 90.5% | 22.2% |
| Washington Community School PLAINFIELD | 557 | 87.6% | 14.4% |
| Public School Number Three WEST NEW YORK | 506 | 90.1% | 33.8% |
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 Oak Street Elem School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Ocean County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 24.1% | #1,065 of 1,290 | #48 of 51 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 21.3% | #1,131 of 1,319 ▼ 44 | #50 of 52 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 32.8% | #1,065 of 1,319 ▼ 91 | #42 of 52 ▼ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 513 | #375 of 1,562 | #26 of 70 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 7.1:1 | #15 of 1,390 | #4 of 59 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 26.1% | #1,257 of 1,392 | #54 of 59 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 91.4% | #45 of 1,481 | #5 of 67 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -44.7% | #13 of 798 | #2 of 30 |
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
513
-139 (-21%) vs 2020
-14% since 1990-91, when it was 600
Student : Teacher
7.1:1
was 8.1:1
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 | 513 | 72.7 | 7.1:1 | 91% (469) |
| 2023-24 | 656 | 75.7 | 8.7:1 | 92% (601) |
| 2022-23 | 534 | 74.2 | 7.2:1 | 97% (517) |
| 2020-21 | 652 | 81 | 8.1:1 | 93% (608) |
| 2017-18 | 928 | 81.5 | 11.4:1 | 90% (833) |
| 2015-16 | 1,032 | 87 | 11.9:1 | 93% (963) |
| 2010-11 | 1,028 | 70 | 14.7:1 | 90% (928) |
| 2000-01 | 1,137 | 86 | 13.2:1 | 61% (694) |
| 1990-91 | 600 | 31 | 19.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Oak Street Elem School.
Since 2017-18: students down 45% (928 to 513); teachers down 11% (81.5 to 72.7).
About Oak Street Elem School
At 75 OAK STREET in LAKEWOOD, New Jersey, Oak Street Elem School operates as a medium-sized elementary school. Classes run from 3 through 6, and the school has 513 students. Against the 405-student average for elementary schools in New Jersey, enrollment here is 27% higher.
Lakewood Township School District, which runs Oak Street Elem School, has 8 schools and 4,193 students.
Hispanic students make up 86% of enrollment at Oak Street Elem School. The remaining students are 6% Black, 4% White, and 3% Asian. Census figures show Ocean County is about 11% Hispanic. Pick two students at random and there is a 26% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The school has about 7.1 students per teacher and 72.7 full-time-equivalent teachers. This ratio sits 4.4 below the 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 91%. The 44% average for public schools in Ocean County is 47 points lower.
allk12 grades Oak Street Elem School a C+. The grade compares the school only with New Jersey public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
A school with Oak Street Elem School's lunch-eligibility share in New Jersey is predicted to score 16.1%. Oak Street Elem School scores 24.1%, 8.0 points above that line.
Ocean County census figures show that the median household income is $89,863, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 34% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 7%. Ocean County is home to 117 public schools and about 66,051 public school students.
The closest public school to Oak Street Elem School is Spruce Street Elementary School, about 0.1 miles away. Oak Street Elem School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. The nearest schools with test data average 30.0%, higher than Oak Street Elem School's 24.1%.
Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment is down 21% from 2020-21, when Oak Street Elem School had 652 students, to 2024-25, when it had 513.
Topics for discussion here include school events, clubs, and volunteer needs. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Ocean County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
654,362
Census ACS
Median income
$89,863
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
117
66,051 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Lakewood Township School District
- Lakewood High SchoolHigh · 1,295 students
- Lakewood Middle SchoolMiddle · 574 students
- Spruce Street Elementary SchoolElementary · 554 students
- Piner Elementary SchoolElementary · 364 students
- Clifton Ave Grade SchoolElementary · 331 students
- Ella G Clarke Elementary SchoolElementary · 314 students
Other schools in LAKEWOOD
- Lakewood High SchoolHigh · 1,295 students
- Lakewood Middle SchoolMiddle · 574 students
- Spruce Street Elementary SchoolElementary · 554 students
- Ocean Academy Charter SchoolCombined · 551 students
- Piner Elementary SchoolElementary · 364 students
- Clifton Ave Grade SchoolElementary · 331 students
Other Oak Street Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Oak Street Elementary. Oak Street Elem School is the 2nd largest of the 3.
- Oak Street ElementaryFalls Church, VA · 587 students
- Oak Street ElementaryFranklin, MA · 398 students
Nearby schools
- Spruce Street Elementary School0.1 mi · 554
- Ocean Academy Charter School1.5 mi · 551
- Clifton Ave Grade School2.0 mi · 331
- Ella G Clarke Elementary School2.0 mi · 314
- Lakewood Early Childhood Center2.0 mi · 248
- Lakewood Middle School2.2 mi · 574
Frequently asked questions
About Oak Street Elem SchoolHow large is Oak Street Elem School?
Oak Street Elem School enrolls approximately 513 students in grades 03-06.
Is Oak Street Elem School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Oak Street Elem School is an elementary school covering grades 03-06.
How many teachers does Oak Street Elem School have?
Oak Street Elem School employs 73 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 7.1:1.
What is the student diversity at Oak Street Elem School?
Student demographics at Oak Street Elem School are roughly 4% White, 86% Hispanic, 6% Black, 3% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Oak Street Elem School?
Oak Street Elem School is overseen by Lakewood Township School District in Ocean County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.