Shark River Hills Elementary School

Shark River Hills Elementary School, a close-knit elementary campus in NEPTUNE, New Jersey, run under Neptune Township School District, educates 244 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 40% smaller than the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 405 students.

Neptune Township School District runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 3,374 students. Shark River Hills Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Shark River Hills Elementary School reports that White students make up the majority at 66%; the rest looks like 14% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 8% Black. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 74%.

On the resource side, On paper, Shark River Hills Elementary School has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 23% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Shark River Hills Elementary School is in the bottom 10% of New Jersey public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 53.4%; Shark River Hills Elementary School posts 34.5%, -18.9 points below that line.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Monmouth County indicate median household income runs about $124,845, 51% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Monmouth County's 186 public schools (combined enrollment of about 91,053 students), Shark River Hills Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Woodrow Wilson is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Shark River Hills Elementary School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Shark River Hills Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 34.7%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Shark River Hills Elementary School has contracted 7%, going from 261 students in 2018 to 244 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment shrank from 23% to 8% over that span. Class-load math has grew: from 9.3:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 in 2025.

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