Piner Elementary School

As an average-sized elementary school in Lakewood, New Jersey, Piner Elementary School educates 364 students from grades pre-K through K, run under Lakewood Township School District.

Lakewood Township School District comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 4,193 students; Piner Elementary School is among them.

Demographically, Piner Elementary School records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (87%); the rest looks like 6% Black, 4% White. By comparison, Ocean County as a whole is about 11% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 6.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 93% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Ocean County runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Ocean County) reports that median household income runs about $89,863, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Piner Elementary School is one of 117 public schools in Ocean County (combined enrollment of about 66,051 students).

Howell Township Middle School South is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Piner Elementary School operates from a suburban location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Piner Elementary School has fell 35%, going from 563 students in 2018 to 364 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 1126.0:1 in 2018 to 6.8:1 in 2025.

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