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Red Bank Primary School
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Red Bank Primary School
Red Bank Primary School is one of the middle-of-the-pack elementary-level communitys in RED BANK, New Jersey, run under Red Bank Borough Public School District, with 543 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 3. That puts it 34% bigger than the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 405 students.
Within Red Bank Borough Public School District, which oversees 2 schools and 1,143 students, Red Bank Primary School is one campus in the system.
Demographically, Red Bank Primary School shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 78% of enrollment; the rest consists of 16% White, 5% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 13%.
In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. An estimated 80% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Monmouth County's rate of about 29%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Red Bank Primary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.6%, the actual is 32.2%, a residual of +9.6 points.
Across the wider county, census data for Monmouth County shows the typical household earns roughly $124,845 per year, roughly 51% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Monmouth County runs 186 public schools (combined enrollment of about 91,053 students), of which Red Bank Primary School is one.
Red Bank Charter School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Red Bank Primary School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Red Bank Primary School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 52.4%.
Red Bank Primary School operates from a suburban location.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 16%: 643 students in 2018 compared to 543 in 2025. The White share of enrollment grew from 5% to 16% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 11.4:1 in 2018 to 9.3:1 in 2025.
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