Ocean Township Elementary School

Located at 555 DOW AVENUE, in OAKHURST, New Jersey, Ocean Township Elementary School is a moderately sized K-5 school that serves 410 students (grades pre-K through 4), operated by Township of Ocean School District.

Township of Ocean School District runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 3,163 students. Ocean Township Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Ocean Township Elementary School lists that 49% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest is composed of 23% Hispanic, 17% Black, 7% Asian, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 74% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school employs 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. An estimated 50% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Monmouth County's rate of about 29%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Ocean Township Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 38.8%; this one delivers 48.6%.

Across the wider county, Monmouth County reports that the typical household earns roughly $124,845 per year, 51% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Monmouth County's 186 public schools (combined enrollment of about 91,053 students), Ocean Township Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Ocean Township High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Ocean Township Elementary School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Ocean Township Elementary School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 46.4%.

Ocean Township Elementary School operates from a commuter-belt location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Ocean Township Elementary School has held roughly steady, going from 418 students in 2018 to 410 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 55% to 49% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 9.8:1 in 2018 to 8.3:1 in 2025.

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