Pinelands Regional Jr. High School

Set in Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey, Pinelands Regional Jr. High School is a medium-sized intermediate school, part of Pinelands Regional School District. It works with 500 students across grades 7 through 8.

Pinelands Regional School District runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 1,563 students. Pinelands Regional Jr. High School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Pinelands Regional Jr. High School reports that 77% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school records 14% Hispanic, 4% Black, 3% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.9:1, putting Pinelands Regional Jr. High School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 49% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Pinelands Regional Jr. High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.3%, the actual is 25.6%, a residual of -13.8 points.

In the broader community, Ocean County reports that the typical household earns roughly $89,863 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Ocean County's 117 public schools (combined enrollment of about 66,051 students), Pinelands Regional Jr. High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Pinelands Regional High School, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Pinelands Regional Jr. High School. On composite proficiency, Pinelands Regional Jr. High School comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 37.9%.

Pinelands Regional Jr. High School operates from a small-town location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Pinelands Regional Jr. High School has edged down 37%, going from 793 students in 2018 to 500 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 85% to 77% over that span.

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