Pine Brook School

Set in Manalapan, New Jersey, Pine Brook School is a medium-sized junior high, one of the schools within Manalapan-Englishtown Regional School District. It hosts 494 students across grade 6.

Across the 8 schools in Manalapan-Englishtown Regional School District (4,502 students total), Pine Brook School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Pine Brook School logs that 77% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder looks like 12% Asian, 8% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Monmouth County as a whole.

On the resource side, Pine Brook School records 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.5:1. The state averages around 10.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 17% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Monmouth County runs at roughly 29%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Pine Brook School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 57.0%; this one delivers 71.0%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Monmouth County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $124,845 per year, 51% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Pine Brook School is one of 186 public schools in Monmouth County (combined enrollment of about 91,053 students).

Nearest neighbor: Taylor Mills School, around 1.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Pine Brook School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Pine Brook School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 64.3%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Pine Brook School has edged down 20%, going from 616 students in 2018 to 494 in 2025.

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