Spring Lake Heights Elementary School

Spring Lake Heights Elementary School operates as an intimate primary school in SPRING LAKE HEIGHTS, New Jersey, part of Spring Lake Heights School District. Current enrollment sits at 292 students spanning grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 405 students each, so Spring Lake Heights Elementary School sits 28% leaner than that benchmark.

Operationally, Spring Lake Heights Elementary School answers to Spring Lake Heights School District, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

On the student-mix side, Spring Lake Heights Elementary School logs that nearly all students (90%) are White. Beyond that, the school lists 7% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 74%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Spring Lake Heights Elementary School has 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 6.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting Spring Lake Heights Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 10% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Monmouth County runs at roughly 29%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Spring Lake Heights Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 60.7%; this one delivers 66.1%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Monmouth County indicate median household earnings sit near $124,845, roughly 51% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Monmouth County's 186 public schools (combined enrollment of about 91,053 students), Spring Lake Heights Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: H W Mountz Elementary School, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Spring Lake Heights Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Spring Lake Heights Elementary School at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 57.6%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Spring Lake Heights Elementary School has contracted 13%, going from 337 students in 2018 to 292 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 10.1:1 in 2018 to 6.8:1 in 2025.

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