Pine Beach Elementary School

Pine Beach Elementary School is an elementary campus of average-sized scale in PINE BEACH, New Jersey, part of Toms River Regional School District, serveing 371 students in grades K through 5.

Toms River Regional School District runs 18 schools in total, collectively educating 14,323 students. Pine Beach Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Pine Beach Elementary School lists that 63% of the student body identifies as White; the rest looks like 26% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 4% Black. By comparison, Ocean County as a whole is about 83% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Pine Beach Elementary School has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.7:1. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 47% of students at Pine Beach Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Pine Beach Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 40.5%; this one delivers 30.1%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Ocean County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $89,863 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Ocean County's 117 public schools (combined enrollment of about 66,051 students), Pine Beach Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Beachwood Elementary School, around 1.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Pine Beach Elementary School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Pine Beach Elementary School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 36.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Pine Beach Elementary School has declined 18%, going from 451 students in 2018 to 371 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 71% to 63%.

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