Park Avenue Elementary School

Set in Freehold, New Jersey, Park Avenue Elementary School is a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus, run under Freehold Borough School District. It teaches 463 students across grades 3 through 5.

Freehold Borough School District runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,523 students. Park Avenue Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Park Avenue Elementary School shows that 80% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school shows 11% White, 7% Black. By comparison, Monmouth County as a whole is about 13% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. An estimated 83% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Monmouth County's rate of about 29%.

With demographic context factored in, Park Avenue Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 20.6%; this one delivers 31.4%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Monmouth County) records that median household earnings sit near $124,845, roughly 51% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Monmouth County's 186 public schools (combined enrollment of about 91,053 students), Park Avenue Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Freehold Intermediate School, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Park Avenue Elementary School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Park Avenue Elementary School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 56.3%.

Park Avenue Elementary School operates from an outer-ring location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 26%: 622 students in 2018 compared to 463 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 8.7:1 today.

Inside the community feed, the feed for Park Avenue Elementary School typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.