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What's the most underrated thing about Pinelands Regional High School that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
1,063
High
DISTRICT 782 · STATE 929
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PINELANDS REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341300005917
Pinelands Regional High School
565 Nugentown Road, Little Egg Harbor, NJ 08087 · (609) 296-3106 · Ocean County
GRADES 09–12HIGH31-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,063 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 29% of New Jersey public high schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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 high schools
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
80 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.3:1 · STATE 12.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
50%
528 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 41%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 256 | 24% |
| Grade 10 | 260 | 24% |
| Grade 11 | 255 | 24% |
| Grade 12 | 292 | 27% |
Student demographics
35%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
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Pinelands Regional School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
46.9%
NJ avg 53.1% . -11.3pp since 2023
Math
10.1%
NJ avg 41.6% . -2.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 10 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 11 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 46.9% | 10.1% |
| 2023-24 | 58.2% | 12.1% |
% 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
26.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.0%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-12.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 27% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 39% 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 Pinelands Regional High School
Pinelands Regional High School's state test result (26.6% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pinelands Regional High School this school | 1,063 | 49.7% | 26.6% |
| Lower Cape May Regional High School CAPE MAY | 717 | 47.1% | 33.6% |
| Barnegat High School BARNEGAT | 1,003 | 42.9% | 33.2% |
| Cape May County Technical High School CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE | 587 | 41.4% | 20.7% |
| Brick Township High School BRICK TOWN | 1,200 | 41.2% | 33.3% |
| Middle Township High School CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE | 821 | 48.1% | 22.7% |
Matched among New Jersey high 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 Pinelands Regional High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Ocean County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 26.6% | #277 of 397 | #16 of 19 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 10.1% | #326 of 400 ▼ 6 | #19 of 19 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 46.9% | #231 of 395 ▼ 18 | #8 of 18 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,063 | #159 of 442 | #11 of 22 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.3:1 | #272 of 388 | #11 of 19 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 34.9% | #336 of 389 | #13 of 19 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 49.7% | #145 of 405 | #4 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +35.6% | #19 of 173 | #1 of 7 |
Ranked against other public high 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
1,063
+27 (+3%) vs 2020
-19% since 1990-91, when it was 1,320
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
was 11.9:1
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 | 1,063 | 79.7 | 13.3:1 | 50% (528) |
| 2023-24 | 1,077 | 87.4 | 12.3:1 | 45% (487) |
| 2022-23 | 1,069 | 87 | 12.3:1 | 40% (432) |
| 2020-21 | 1,036 | 87 | 11.9:1 | 41% (422) |
| 2017-18 | 784 | 70.6 | 11.1:1 | 40% (313) |
| 2015-16 | 798 | 77 | 10.4:1 | 35% (277) |
| 2010-11 | 940 | 70 | 13.4:1 | 32% (304) |
| 2000-01 | 1,007 | 79 | 12.8:1 | 28% (280) |
| 1990-91 | 1,320 | 106 | 12.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Pinelands Regional High School.
Since 2017-18: students up 36% (784 to 1,063); teachers up 13% (70.6 to 79.7).
About Pinelands Regional High School
Pinelands Regional High School is a medium-sized high school in Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey, (ZIP code 08087). The school enrolls 1,063 students, from grades 9 through 12.
The 2 schools in Pinelands Regional School District enroll 1,563 students altogether, Pinelands Regional High School among them.
Pinelands Regional High School is 79% White by enrollment. Smaller groups are 13% Hispanic, 4% Black, and 3% multiracial. The county population is about 83% White, within a few points of the school. Pinelands Regional High School's diversity index is 35%, against a US figure of 70%.
Pinelands Regional High School counts 79.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 13.3 students for each one. That matches the 12.7:1 average for high schools in New Jersey fairly closely. About 50% of enrolled students meet the income rules for free or reduced-price lunch.
Pinelands Regional High School is graded C by allk12, scoring above 29% of New Jersey public high schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
A school with Pinelands Regional High School's lunch-eligibility share in New Jersey is predicted to score 39.0%. Pinelands Regional High School scores 26.6%, 12.4 points below that line.
Federal survey data for Ocean County show that the median household income is $89,863, about 34% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. Ocean County is home to 117 public schools and about 66,051 public school students.
The school nearest to Pinelands Regional High School is Pinelands Regional Jr. High School, at a distance of about 0.3 miles. Other public schools within five miles number 6. On average proficiency, Pinelands Regional High School is 5th of 6 nearby schools with test data.
Federal records code the school's setting as Town: Fringe.
Pinelands Regional High School's enrollment climbed from 1,036 in 2020-21 to 1,063 in 2024-25. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio rose to 13.3:1, from 11.9:1.
The Pinelands Regional High School community page is open for posts about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Ocean County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
654,362
Census ACS
Median income
$89,863
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
117
66,051 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Pinelands Regional School District
- Pinelands Regional Jr. High SchoolMiddle · 500 students
Other schools in Little Egg Harbor
- Frog Pond Elementary SchoolElementary · 780 students
- George J. Mitchell Elementary SchoolElementary · 582 students
- Pinelands Regional Jr. High SchoolMiddle · 500 students
- Robert C. Wood Sr Early Childhood CenterElementary · 318 students
Nearby schools
- Pinelands Regional Jr. High School0.3 mi · 500
- Robert C. Wood Sr Early Childhood Center1.1 mi · 318
- George J. Mitchell Elementary School1.1 mi · 582
- Tuckerton Elementary School1.4 mi · 308
- Frog Pond Elementary School2.1 mi · 780
- Eagleswood Elementary School4.9 mi · 136
Frequently asked questions
About Pinelands Regional High SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Pinelands Regional High School?
Pinelands Regional High School enrolls approximately 1,063 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does Pinelands Regional High School serve?
Pinelands Regional High School serves grades 09-12.
How many teachers does Pinelands Regional High School have?
Pinelands Regional High School employs 80 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.3:1.
What is the student diversity at Pinelands Regional High School?
Student demographics at Pinelands Regional High School are roughly 79% White, 13% Hispanic, 4% Black, 1% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees Pinelands Regional High School?
Pinelands Regional High School is overseen by Pinelands Regional School District in Ocean County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.