OCVTS Grunin Performing Arts Academy

OCVTS Grunin Performing Arts Academy is a four-year high school of very small scale in Toms River, New Jersey, part of Ocean County Vocational Technical School District, works with 259 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 72% smaller than the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 929 students.

Ocean County Vocational Technical School District runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 612 students. OCVTS Grunin Performing Arts Academy is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, OCVTS Grunin Performing Arts Academy shows that 81% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 10% Hispanic, 3% Black, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.3:1. The state averages around 12.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 16% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Ocean County (around 44%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, OCVTS Grunin Performing Arts Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.3%, the actual is 46.9%, a residual of -10.4 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Ocean County put the typical household earns roughly $89,863 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. OCVTS Grunin Performing Arts Academy is one of 117 public schools in Ocean County (combined enrollment of about 66,051 students).

Toms River Intermediate School East is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, OCVTS Grunin Performing Arts Academy comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 39.5%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 258 students in 2018 compared to 259 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 36.9:1 in 2018 to 9.3:1 in 2025.

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