Point Pleasant Beach High School

Located at 700 Trenton Avenue, in Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey, Point Pleasant Beach High School is a rural-scale secondary school that instructs 331 students (grades 9 through 12), part of Point Pleasant Beach School District. Enrollment runs roughly 64% leaner than the state mean of about 929.

Point Pleasant Beach School District comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 633 students; Point Pleasant Beach High School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Point Pleasant Beach High School records that 81% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 15% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Ocean County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.7:1, putting Point Pleasant Beach High School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 20% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Ocean County (around 44%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, Point Pleasant Beach High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 55.4%; actual is 32.1%, a gap of -23.3 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Ocean County put median household earnings sit near $89,863, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Point Pleasant Beach High School is one of 117 public schools in Ocean County (combined enrollment of about 66,051 students).

Nearest neighbor: G. Harold Antrim Elementary School, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Point Pleasant Beach High School. On composite proficiency, Point Pleasant Beach High School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 55.5%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Point Pleasant Beach High School's enrollment has fell 9% since 2018, when it stood at 364 (now 331). Hispanic enrollment moved from 7% to 15% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 9.9:1 in 2018 to 8.4:1 today.

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