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What's the most underrated thing about Southern Regional High School that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
1,820
High
DISTRICT 1,343 · STATE 929
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SOUTHERN REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341548004710
Southern Regional High School
90 CEDAR BRIDGE ROAD, MANAHAWKIN, NJ 08050 · (609) 597-9481 · Ocean County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL1,820 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 36% of New Jersey public high schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New Jersey public high schools
Student : Teacher
12.2:1
149 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.4:1 · STATE 12.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
25%
449 students
DISTRICT 27% · STATE 41%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 418 | 23% |
| Grade 10 | 480 | 26% |
| Grade 11 | 403 | 22% |
| Grade 12 | 519 | 29% |
Student demographics
29%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 29% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Southern Regional School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
43.3%
NJ avg 53.1% . -17.5pp since 2023
Math
33.1%
NJ avg 41.6% . +0.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 33 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 18 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 43.3% | 33.1% |
| 2023-24 | 60.8% | 33.1% |
% Meeting or Exceeding Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: NJSLA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NJ schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
37.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.7%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-15.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 37% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 53% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Southern Regional High School
Southern Regional High School's state test result (37.0% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southern Regional High School this school | 1,820 | 24.7% | 37.0% |
| Middletown High School North MIDDLETOWN | 1,289 | 21.7% | 42.9% |
| Howell High School FARMINGDALE | 1,775 | 17.7% | 38.3% |
| Clearview Regional High School MULLICA HILL | 1,332 | 18.0% | 52.4% |
| Freehold Township High School FREEHOLD TWP. | 1,813 | 19.5% | 39.9% |
| Kingsway Regional High School WOOLWICH TWP | 1,822 | 21.8% | 41.5% |
Matched among New Jersey high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Southern Regional High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Ocean County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 37.0% | #203 of 397 | #5 of 19 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 33.1% | #168 of 400 ▲ 10 | #5 of 19 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 43.3% | #247 of 395 ▼ 60 | #11 of 18 ▼ 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,820 | #48 of 442 | #2 of 22 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.2:1 | #196 of 388 | #6 of 19 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 28.9% | #362 of 389 | #17 of 19 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 24.7% | #256 of 405 | #15 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.2% | #122 of 200 | #8 of 11 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,820
-155 (-8%) vs 2020
+30% since 1990-91, when it was 1,398
Student : Teacher
12.2:1
was 13.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,820 | 149 | 12.2:1 | 25% (449) |
| 2023-24 | 1,865 | 149.8 | 12.4:1 | 19% (346) |
| 2022-23 | 1,845 | 154 | 12.0:1 | 17% (318) |
| 2020-21 | 1,975 | 151 | 13.1:1 | 18% (353) |
| 2017-18 | 1,941 | 147 | 13.2:1 | 21% (401) |
| 2015-16 | 2,045 | 151 | 13.5:1 | 22% (451) |
| 2010-11 | 2,023 | 135 | 15.0:1 | 16% (323) |
| 2000-01 | 2,603 | 155 | 16.8:1 | 13% (342) |
| 1990-91 | 1,398 | 103 | 13.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Southern Regional High School.
Since 2017-18: students down 6% (1,941 to 1,820); teachers up 1% (147 to 149).
About Southern Regional High School
Southern Regional High School is one of the public schools in MANAHAWKIN, New Jersey. It is a high-enrollment high school. Students in grades 9 through 12 attend the school, which enrolls 1,820 students. For comparison, high schools in New Jersey average about 929 students.
The district, Southern Regional School District, has 2,685 students enrolled across 2 schools.
About 83% of the student body at Southern Regional High School is White. Enrollment also includes 12% Hispanic and 3% Black. County-wide, about 83% of residents are White. Southern Regional High School's diversity index is 29%, against a US figure of 70%.
Southern Regional High School counts 149 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 12.2 students for each one. That matches the 12.7:1 average for high schools in New Jersey fairly closely. About 25% of students at the school meet free or reduced-price lunch income limits. Across public schools in Ocean County, the average is 44%.
Southern Regional High School is graded C+ by allk12, scoring above 36% of New Jersey public high schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate on state tests with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. Southern Regional High School posts 37.0% against a 52.7% prediction, a bottom-10% result in New Jersey.
Federal survey data for Ocean County show that the median household income is $89,863, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of people live in poverty. There are 117 public schools in Ocean County, enrolling about 66,051 students in all.
The shortest distance from Southern Regional High School to another public school is about 0.3 miles, to Southern Regional Middle School. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. By average proficiency, Southern Regional High School is 5th among 5 schools close by.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Large, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
2024-25 enrollment was 1,820, an 8% decrease from 1,975 in 2020-21.
If you have questions about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news at Southern Regional High School, you can post them here. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Ocean County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
654,362
Census ACS
Median income
$89,863
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
117
66,051 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Southern Regional School District
- Southern Regional Middle SchoolMiddle · 865 students
Other schools in MANAHAWKIN
- Southern Regional Middle SchoolMiddle · 865 students
- Ocean Acres Elementary SchoolElementary · 747 students
- Stafford Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 657 students
- McKinley Avenue Elementary SchoolElementary · 630 students
- Ronald L. Meinders Primary Learning CenterElementary · 332 students
- Marine Academy of Technology and Environmental ScienceHigh · 275 students
Nearby schools
- Southern Regional Middle School0.3 mi · 865
- Marine Academy of Technology and Environmental Science0.3 mi · 275
- Oxycocus Elementary School0.7 mi · 176
- Stafford Intermediate School1.7 mi · 657
- Ronald L. Meinders Primary Learning Center1.7 mi · 332
- McKinley Avenue Elementary School1.7 mi · 630
Frequently asked questions
About Southern Regional High SchoolHow many students attend Southern Regional High School?
Southern Regional High School enrolls approximately 1,820 students in grades 09-12.
Is Southern Regional High School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Southern Regional High School is a high school covering grades 09-12.
How many teachers does Southern Regional High School have?
Southern Regional High School employs 149 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.2:1.
What is the student diversity at Southern Regional High School?
Student demographics at Southern Regional High School are roughly 83% White, 12% Hispanic, 3% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Southern Regional High School?
Southern Regional High School is overseen by Southern Regional School District in Ocean County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.