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Enrollment
483
Elementary
DISTRICT 595 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·POINT PLEASANT BOROUGH SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341329004698
Ocean Road Elementary School
1210 BENEDICT STREET, POINT PLEASANT, NJ 08742 · (732) 701-1900 · Ocean County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL483 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 35% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- BTest 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
11.3:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.5:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
16%
75 students
DISTRICT 15% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 11 | 2% |
| Kindergarten | 76 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 76 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 81 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 85 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 82 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 72 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (76) is 6% larger than its 5th grade class (72).
Student demographics
19%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 21% · 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 Point Pleasant Borough School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
46.4%
NJ avg 53.1% . +0.9pp since 2023
Math
53.6%
NJ avg 41.6% . -4.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 46 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 54 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 46.4% | 53.6% |
| 2023-24 | 45.5% | 57.9% |
% 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
48.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.7%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 58% 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 Road Elementary School
Ocean Road Elementary School's state test result (48.5% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ocean Road Elementary School this school | 483 | 15.5% | 48.5% |
| Upper Township Elementary School MARMORA | 477 | 16.1% | 54.2% |
| Frankford Township School BRANCHVILLE | 505 | 14.7% | 46.2% |
| Holland Township Elementary School MILFORD | 525 | 14.1% | 49.9% |
| Upper Township Primary School MARMORA | 460 | 17.6% | N/A |
| New Monmouth Elementary School MIDDLETOWN | 508 | 17.9% | 48.3% |
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 Road Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Ocean County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 48.5% | #558 of 1,290 | #7 of 51 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 53.6% | #519 of 1,319 ▼ 101 | #6 of 52 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 46.4% | #804 of 1,319 ▼ 22 | #20 of 52 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 483 | #445 of 1,562 | #29 of 70 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.3:1 | #705 of 1,390 | #24 of 59 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 18.5% | #1,320 of 1,392 | #57 of 59 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 15.5% | #1,122 of 1,481 | #64 of 67 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.0% | #741 of 798 | #27 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
483
+23 (+5%) vs 2020
+142% since 1990-91, when it was 200
Student : Teacher
11.3:1
was 10.9:1
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 | 483 | 42.6 | 11.3:1 | 16% (75) |
| 2023-24 | 481 | 43.7 | 11.0:1 | 10% (48) |
| 2022-23 | 471 | 43.1 | 10.9:1 | 12% (55) |
| 2020-21 | 460 | 42 | 10.9:1 | 16% (73) |
| 2017-18 | 493 | 44.5 | 11.1:1 | 16% (81) |
| 2015-16 | 515 | 42 | 12.3:1 | 17% (87) |
| 2010-11 | 561 | 33 | 17.0:1 | 16% (90) |
| 2000-01 | 609 | 41 | 14.8:1 | 11% (68) |
| 1990-91 | 200 | 6 | 33.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Ocean Road Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 2% (493 to 483); teachers down 4% (44.5 to 42.6).
About Ocean Road Elementary School
Ocean Road Elementary School is an elementary school in POINT PLEASANT, New Jersey, and it is part of Point Pleasant Borough School District. The school runs pre-K through 5 and enrolls 483 students.
Point Pleasant Borough School District has 4 schools; together they serve 2,654 students.
By race and ethnicity, Ocean Road Elementary School is 90% White. The next largest groups are 8% Hispanic. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 19%.
The school has 42.6 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 11.3 students per teacher. The average ratio among elementary schools in New Jersey is similar, at 11.4:1. Of all students at Ocean Road Elementary School, 16% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Across public schools in Ocean County, the average is 44%.
Ocean Road Elementary School earns a C+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 35% of New Jersey public elementary schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Ocean Road Elementary School falls in the middle 80% of New Jersey schools: 48.5% actual against 57.7% predicted.
The school is in Ocean County, where median household income comes to about $89,863, roughly 34% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Ocean County's 117 public schools enroll about 66,051 students and include Ocean Road Elementary School.
Ocean Road Elementary School's nearest public school is Point Pleasant Borough High School (about 0.6 miles). The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 51.5%; Ocean Road Elementary School's is 48.5%, ranking 5th of 8.
The federal government classifies Ocean Road Elementary School's location as Suburb: Large.
A 5% rise took enrollment from 460 in 2020-21 to 483 in 2024-25.
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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 Point Pleasant Borough School District
- Point Pleasant Borough High SchoolHigh · 831 students
- Nellie F. Bennett Elementary SchoolElementary · 706 students
- Memorial Middle SchoolMiddle · 634 students
Other schools in POINT PLEASANT
- Point Pleasant Borough High SchoolHigh · 831 students
- Nellie F. Bennett Elementary SchoolElementary · 706 students
- Memorial Middle SchoolMiddle · 634 students
Nearby schools
- Point Pleasant Borough High School0.6 mi · 831
- Memorial Middle School0.6 mi · 634
- Point Pleasant Beach High School0.7 mi · 331
- Nellie F. Bennett Elementary School1.0 mi · 706
- Bay Head Elementary1.1 mi · 125
- G. Harold Antrim Elementary School1.2 mi · 302
Frequently asked questions
About Ocean Road Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Ocean Road Elementary School?
Ocean Road Elementary School enrolls approximately 483 students in grades PK-05.
Is Ocean Road Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Ocean Road Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Ocean Road Elementary School have?
Ocean Road Elementary School employs 43 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.3:1.
What is the student diversity at Ocean Road Elementary School?
Student demographics at Ocean Road Elementary School are roughly 90% White, 8% Hispanic, 0% Black, 0% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is Ocean Road Elementary School public or private?
Ocean Road Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Point Pleasant Borough School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.