Shore Regional High School

Located at 132 MONMOUTH PARK HIGHWAY 36, in WEST LONG BRANCH, New Jersey, Shore Regional High School is a compact 9-12 campus that works with 556 students (grades 9 through 12), part of Shore Regional High School District. That puts it 40% smaller than the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 929 students.

Shore Regional High School is a school of Shore Regional High School District, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

Demographically, Shore Regional High School records that 81% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 13% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.7:1. The state averages around 12.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 15% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably below Monmouth County's rate of about 29%.

After controlling for student poverty, Shore Regional High School is in the bottom 10% of New Jersey public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 57.9%; Shore Regional High School posts 40.9%, -17.0 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, 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 Shore Regional High School is one.

The closest other public school is Betty McElmon Elementary School, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Shore Regional High School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Shore Regional High School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 40.3%.

Shore Regional High School operates from a suburban location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 15%: 651 students in 2018 compared to 556 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 86% to 81%.

On allk12, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.