Old Bridge High School

Old Bridge High School, a heavily attended secondary school in MATAWAN, New Jersey, operated by Old Bridge Township School District, hosts 2,659 students, covering grades 9 through 12. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 929 students each, so Old Bridge High School sits 186% bigger than that benchmark.

Old Bridge Township School District comprises 14 schools with combined enrollment of 7,921 students; Old Bridge High School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Old Bridge High School reports that the most-represented group is White (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 18% Hispanic, 16% Asian, 9% Black. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 196 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.6:1. The state averages around 12.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 28% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Middlesex County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Old Bridge High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.1%, the actual is 39.1%, a residual of -12.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, Middlesex County reports that the typical household earns roughly $111,549 per year, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Middlesex County's 214 public schools (combined enrollment of about 129,255 students), Old Bridge High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: James A. McDivitt Elementary School, around 1.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Old Bridge High School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 55.7%.

Old Bridge High School operates from a commuter-belt location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 7%: 2,857 students in 2018 compared to 2,659 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 60% to 54%.

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