Enrollment
283
Elementary
DISTRICT 369 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341011003988
Ocean Avenue Elementary School
235 OCEAN AVENUE, NORTH MIDDLETOWN, NJ 07748 · (732) 787-0092 · Monmouth County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL283 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 12% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
10.8:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.2:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
39%
110 students
DISTRICT 14% · STATE 41%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 40 | 14% |
| Kindergarten | 47 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 39 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 37 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 34 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 44 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 42 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (47) is 12% larger than its 5th grade class (42).
Student demographics
55%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
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NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
40.7%
NJ avg 53.1% . +1.3pp since 2023
Math
27.2%
NJ avg 41.6% . -6.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 27 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 1 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 6 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 40.7% | 27.2% |
| 2023-24 | 39.4% | 33.3% |
% 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
31.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.9%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-13.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% 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 Ocean Avenue Elementary School
Ocean Avenue Elementary School's state test result (31.7% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ocean Avenue Elementary School this school | 283 | 38.9% | 31.7% |
| Whiting Elementary School WHITING | 266 | 37.2% | 43.2% |
| Clarence B. Lamb Elementary School WRIGHTSTOWN | 294 | 36.7% | 41.0% |
| Lillian M. Dunfee Elementary BARNEGAT | 325 | 35.7% | N/A |
| Broad Street Elementary School GIBBSTOWN | 290 | 32.8% | 30.4% |
| Montague Township School MONTAGUE | 329 | 43.8% | 45.5% |
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 Ocean Avenue Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Monmouth County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 31.7% | #928 of 1,290 | #76 of 89 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 27.2% | #1,024 of 1,319 ▼ 156 | #82 of 93 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.7% | #917 of 1,319 ▼ 23 | #79 of 93 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 283 | #1,176 of 1,562 | #83 of 112 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.8:1 | #570 of 1,390 | #60 of 98 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.9% | #667 of 1,392 | #29 of 98 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 38.9% | #727 of 1,481 | #31 of 105 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.0% | #616 of 798 | #41 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
283
-13 (-4%) vs 2020
-23% since 1990-91, when it was 366
Student : Teacher
10.8:1
was 11.8:1
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 | 283 | 26.2 | 10.8:1 | 39% (110) |
| 2023-24 | 278 | 27.3 | 10.2:1 | 37% (102) |
| 2022-23 | 295 | 25.7 | 11.5:1 | 35% (104) |
| 2020-21 | 296 | 25 | 11.8:1 | 31% (93) |
| 2017-18 | 298 | 24.3 | 12.3:1 | 38% (112) |
| 2015-16 | 293 | 24 | 12.2:1 | 36% (106) |
| 2010-11 | 295 | 16 | 18.4:1 | 37% (109) |
| 2000-01 | 409 | 24 | 17.0:1 | 29% (119) |
| 1990-91 | 366 | 21 | 17.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Ocean Avenue Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 5% (298 to 283); teachers up 8% (24.3 to 26.2).
About Ocean Avenue Elementary School
Ocean Avenue Elementary School operates as a small elementary school in NORTH MIDDLETOWN, New Jersey. A total of 283 students attend the school, which covers pre-K through 5. Against the 405-student average for elementary schools in New Jersey, enrollment here is 30% lower.
Ocean Avenue Elementary School is one school in Middletown Township Public School District, a system of 16 schools with 8,752 students.
Ocean Avenue Elementary School's enrollment is 64% White. The remaining shares are 19% Hispanic, 8% Black, 7% multiracial, and 2% Asian. Census estimates put the White share of Monmouth County's population at about 74%. Ocean Avenue Elementary School has a diversity index of 55%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Ocean Avenue Elementary School's 26.2 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 10.8:1. Across elementary schools in New Jersey, the average ratio is about 11.4:1. Eligibility for subsidized school meals is 39%. That is 10 points above the 29% average for public schools in Monmouth County.
allk12 grades Ocean Avenue Elementary School a D. The grade compares the school only with New Jersey public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
In New Jersey, Ocean Avenue Elementary School is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 31.7% actual against a predicted 44.9%.
According to the American Community Survey, in Monmouth County, median household income is about $124,845, roughly 51% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Ocean Avenue Elementary School is one of 186 public schools in Monmouth County, which together enroll about 91,053 students.
Of nearby public schools, Keansburg Early Learning Center is the closest, at about 0.4 miles. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Of 7 schools in the immediate area with test results, Ocean Avenue Elementary School ranks 4th on average proficiency.
Locale data from NCES put Ocean Avenue Elementary School in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more (Suburb: Large).
Enrollment was 296 in 2020-21 and 283 in 2024-25, a decrease of 13 students. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 11.8:1 to 10.8:1.
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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 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
Nearby schools
- Keansburg Early Learning Center0.4 mi · 152
- Keansburg High School0.4 mi · 379
- Joseph R. Bolger Middle School0.6 mi · 318
- Joseph C. Caruso School1.0 mi · 595
- Thorne Middle School1.0 mi · 597
- Harmony Elementary School1.4 mi · 481
Frequently asked questions
About Ocean Avenue Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Ocean Avenue Elementary School?
Ocean Avenue Elementary School enrolls approximately 283 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Ocean Avenue Elementary School serve?
Ocean Avenue Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does Ocean Avenue Elementary School have?
Ocean Avenue Elementary School employs 26 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.8:1.
How diverse is Ocean Avenue Elementary School?
Ocean Avenue Elementary School reports a student body of 64% White, 19% Hispanic, 8% Black, 2% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees Ocean Avenue Elementary School?
Ocean Avenue Elementary School is overseen by Middletown Township Public School District in Monmouth County.
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