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What's the most underrated thing about Park Avenue Elementary School that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
463
Elementary
DISTRICT 513 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FREEHOLD BOROUGH SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340558003792
Park Avenue Elementary School
280 Park Ave., Freehold, NJ 07728 · (732) 761-2124 · Monmouth County
GRADES 03–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL463 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 48% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats 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
8.7:1
54 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 8.7:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
83%
385 students
DISTRICT 80% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 162 | 35% |
| Grade 4 | 153 | 33% |
| Grade 5 | 148 | 32% |
Student demographics
34%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 36% · 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
Park Avenue Elementary School→Freehold Intermediate School
Based on grade levels within Freehold Borough School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
40.6%
NJ avg 53.1% . -2.7pp since 2023
Math
29.3%
NJ avg 41.6% . +0.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 29 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 40.6% | 29.3% |
| 2023-24 | 43.3% | 28.8% |
% 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
31.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
20.6%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 31% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 21% 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 Park Avenue Elementary School
Park Avenue Elementary School's state test result (31.4% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Park Avenue Elementary School this school | 463 | 83.2% | 31.4% |
| Belleville PS8 BELLEVILLE | 505 | 80.6% | 19.8% |
| School #17 CLIFTON | 501 | 83.8% | 30.0% |
| Jackson Avenue HACKENSACK | 438 | 79.7% | 40.7% |
| Carroll Robbins Elementary School TRENTON | 459 | 85.2% | 12.8% |
| Red Bank Primary School RED BANK | 543 | 79.6% | 32.2% |
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 Park Avenue Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Monmouth County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 31.4% | #934 of 1,290 | #77 of 89 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 29.3% | #989 of 1,319 ▼ 30 | #81 of 93 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.6% | #919 of 1,319 ▼ 93 | #80 of 93 ▼ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 463 | #507 of 1,562 | #34 of 112 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.7:1 | #92 of 1,390 | #13 of 98 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 34.5% | #1,162 of 1,392 | #77 of 98 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 83.2% | #164 of 1,481 | #4 of 105 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -25.6% | #85 of 798 | #5 of 50 |
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
463
-41 (-8%) vs 2020
+104% since 1990-91, when it was 227
Student : Teacher
8.7:1
was 9.9:1
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 | 463 | 53.5 | 8.7:1 | 83% (385) |
| 2023-24 | 470 | 53.8 | 8.7:1 | 82% (384) |
| 2022-23 | 484 | 54.1 | 8.9:1 | 74% (360) |
| 2020-21 | 504 | 51 | 9.9:1 | 82% (413) |
| 2017-18 | 622 | 43.6 | 14.3:1 | 82% (509) |
| 2015-16 | 639 | 45 | 14.2:1 | 81% (517) |
| 2010-11 | 514 | 31 | 16.6:1 | 73% (376) |
| 2000-01 | 446 | 29 | 15.4:1 | 54% (241) |
| 1990-91 | 227 | 13 | 17.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Park Avenue Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 26% (622 to 463); teachers up 23% (43.6 to 53.5).
About Park Avenue Elementary School
Park Avenue Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in Freehold, New Jersey, (ZIP code 07728). Students in grades 3 through 5 make up the school's enrollment of 463 students.
Federal data list 3 schools in Freehold Borough School District, with 1,523 students enrolled.
The largest group at Park Avenue Elementary School is Hispanic students, at 80%. Smaller groups are 11% White and 7% Black. County-wide, 13% of Monmouth County residents are Hispanic. The diversity index for Park Avenue Elementary School is 34%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
There are about 8.7 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at Park Avenue Elementary School, which has 53.5. Elementary schools in New Jersey average 11.4:1, 2.8 more students per teacher than here. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at Park Avenue Elementary School is about 83%. The rate at public schools in Monmouth County averages 29%, lower than here.
On the allk12 Grade, Park Avenue Elementary School lands at B-, ahead of 48% of New Jersey public elementary schools.
Park Avenue Elementary School scores 31.4% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 20.6%.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Monmouth County show that median household income comes to about $124,845, roughly 51% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Monmouth County counts 186 public schools with about 91,053 students.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Freehold Intermediate School, is less than a tenth of a mile. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Park Avenue Elementary School places 6th of 7 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
Park Avenue Elementary School falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, Park Avenue Elementary School had a net loss of 41 students, or 8%. The number of students per teacher dropped from 9.9 to 8.7 over 4 years.
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Monmouth County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
645,353
Census ACS
Median income
$124,845
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
51%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
186
91,053 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Freehold Borough School District
- Freehold Learning CenterElementary · 562 students
- Freehold Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 498 students
Other schools in Freehold
- Freehold Borough High SchoolHigh · 1,376 students
- Dwight D. Eisenhower SchoolMiddle · 582 students
- Clifton T. Barkalow SchoolMiddle · 574 students
- Freehold Learning CenterElementary · 562 students
- Freehold Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 498 students
- Marshall W. Errickson SchoolElementary · 464 students
Other Park Avenue Elementary schools
11 other US public schools in 10 states are named Park Avenue Elementary. Park Avenue Elementary School is the 5th largest of the 12.
- Park Avenue Elementary SchoolORANGE, NJ · 423 students
- Park Avenue ElementaryWebster, MA · 738 students
- PARK AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLSTUTTGART, AR · 641 students
- Park Avenue ElementaryYuba City, CA · 541 students
- Park Avenue Elementary SchoolMount Gilead, OH · 475 students
Nearby schools
- Freehold Intermediate School0.0 mi · 498
- West Freehold School1.2 mi · 447
- Early Childhood Learning Center1.2 mi · 95
- Clifton T. Barkalow School1.3 mi · 574
- Freehold Borough High School1.3 mi · 1,376
- Laura Donovan School1.7 mi · 441
Frequently asked questions
About Park Avenue Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Park Avenue Elementary School?
Park Avenue Elementary School enrolls approximately 463 students in grades 03-05.
What grades does Park Avenue Elementary School serve?
Park Avenue Elementary School serves grades 03-05.
How many students per teacher at Park Avenue Elementary School?
Approximately 8.7:1 students per teacher at Park Avenue Elementary School.
How diverse is Park Avenue Elementary School?
Park Avenue Elementary School reports a student body of 11% White, 80% Hispanic, 7% Black, 0% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees Park Avenue Elementary School?
Park Avenue Elementary School is overseen by Freehold Borough School District in Monmouth County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.