Ocean Avenue Elementary School

Set in NORTH MIDDLETOWN, New Jersey, Ocean Avenue Elementary School is a tight-knit elementary campus, operated by Middletown Township Public School District. It instructs 283 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 405 students each, so Ocean Avenue Elementary School sits 30% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 16 schools in Middletown Township Public School District (8,752 students total), Ocean Avenue Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Ocean Avenue Elementary School lists that 64% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school shows 19% Hispanic, 8% Black, 7% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 74%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 11.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 39% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Monmouth County's rate of about 29%.

After controlling for student poverty, Ocean Avenue Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 44.9%; this one delivers 31.7%.

Across the wider county, census data for Monmouth County shows median household income runs about $124,845, roughly 51% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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), Ocean Avenue Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Keansburg Early Learning Center, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Ocean Avenue Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Ocean Avenue Elementary School comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 33.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 5%: 298 students in 2018 compared to 283 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 80% to 64% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 in 2025.

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