Silver Bay Elementary School

Silver Bay Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary campus in TOMS RIVER, New Jersey, part of Toms River Regional School District. The school caters to 585 students in grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 405 students per school, that is 44% bigger than typical.

Toms River Regional School District runs 18 schools in total, collectively educating 14,323 students. Silver Bay Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Silver Bay Elementary School lists that White students make up the majority at 74%. Other groups include 18% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Black. The wider county runs roughly 83% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 34% of students at Silver Bay Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Ocean County's rate of about 44%.

With demographic context factored in, Silver Bay Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.5%, the actual is 41.0%, a residual of -6.5 points.

Across the wider county, Ocean County reports that the typical household earns roughly $89,863 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Ocean County's 117 public schools (combined enrollment of about 66,051 students), Silver Bay Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

OCVTS Grunin Performing Arts Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Silver Bay Elementary School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Silver Bay Elementary School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 42.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 8%: 637 students in 2018 compared to 585 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 82% to 74% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 in 2025.

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