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What advice would you give to incoming students at Strathmore Elementary School?
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Enrollment
481
Elementary
DISTRICT 408 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MATAWAN-ABERDEEN REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340975003972
Strathmore Elementary School
282 CHURCH STREET, ABERDEEN, NJ 07747 · (732) 705-5900 · Monmouth County
GRADES PK–03ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL481 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 60% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.8:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.2:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
24%
115 students
DISTRICT 32% · STATE 41%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 52 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 80 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 105 | 22% |
| Grade 2 | 126 | 26% |
| Grade 3 | 118 | 25% |
Student demographics
51%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 62% · 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
Students here typically continue to
Strathmore Elementary School→Lloyd Road Elementary School→Matawan-Aberdeen Middle School→Matawan Regional High School
Based on grade levels within Matawan-Aberdeen Regional School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
58.0%
NJ avg 53.1% . +3.8pp since 2023
Math
53.1%
NJ avg 41.6% . +1.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 58 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 53 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 58.0% | 53.1% |
| 2023-24 | 54.2% | 51.6% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
54.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
53.1%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New Jersey's top nor bottom 10%.
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 Strathmore Elementary School
Strathmore Elementary School's state test result (54.2% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strathmore Elementary School this school | 481 | 23.9% | 54.2% |
| Laura Donovan School FREEHOLD | 441 | 21.8% | 53.3% |
| Northfield Community Elementary School NORTHFIELD | 457 | 26.3% | 54.1% |
| Lincoln Park Elementary School LINCOLN PARK | 500 | 24.8% | 64.7% |
| Marion T. Bedwell Elementary School Bernardsville | 435 | 23.4% | 61.3% |
| Rolling Hills Primary School VERNON | 431 | 28.5% | 48.3% |
Matched among New Jersey elementary 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 Strathmore Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Monmouth County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 54.2% | #442 of 1,290 | #40 of 89 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 53.1% | #533 of 1,319 ▼ 17 | #51 of 93 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 58.0% | #529 of 1,319 ▲ 54 | #52 of 93 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 481 | #450 of 1,562 | #25 of 112 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.8:1 | #1,211 of 1,390 | #95 of 98 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 51.0% | #784 of 1,392 | #39 of 98 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 23.9% | #959 of 1,481 | #48 of 105 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +9.3% | #271 of 545 | #18 of 46 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
481
+100 (+26%) vs 2020
-5% since 1990-91, when it was 504
Student : Teacher
13.8:1
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 | 481 | 34.8 | 13.8:1 | 24% (115) |
| 2023-24 | 461 | 37.3 | 12.3:1 | 17% (77) |
| 2022-23 | 510 | 40.1 | 12.7:1 | 14% (69) |
| 2020-21 | 381 | 29 | 13.1:1 | 17% (63) |
| 2017-18 | 440 | 34.4 | 12.8:1 | 23% (101) |
| 2015-16 | 464 | 40 | 11.6:1 | 24% (111) |
| 2010-11 | 505 | 35 | 14.4:1 | 17% (86) |
| 2000-01 | 555 | 34 | 16.3:1 | 18% (99) |
| 1990-91 | 504 | 32 | 15.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Strathmore Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 9% (440 to 481); teachers up 1% (34.4 to 34.8).
About Strathmore Elementary School
Strathmore Elementary School, located in ABERDEEN, New Jersey, is a mid-sized elementary school. The school enrolls 481 students in pre-K through 3.
The 7 schools in Matawan-Aberdeen Regional School District enroll 3,912 students altogether, Strathmore Elementary School among them.
The largest group at Strathmore Elementary School is White students, at 66%. Other groups make up 22% Hispanic, 4% Black, 4% Asian, and 4% multiracial. County-wide, 74% of Monmouth County residents are White. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 51%.
With 34.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 13.8:1. Elementary schools in New Jersey average 11.4:1, 2.4 fewer students per teacher than here. Roughly 24% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Among New Jersey public elementary schools, Strathmore Elementary School outscored 60%, which works out to a B on the allk12 Grade.
Strathmore Elementary School scores 54.2% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 53.1%.
Monmouth County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $124,845 a year, roughly 51% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Monmouth County number 186, with about 91,053 students.
Lloyd Road Elementary School sits about 0.3 miles from Strathmore Elementary School. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The school's 54.2% average proficiency ranks 5th among 8 nearby schools.
Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Large: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
A 26% rise took enrollment from 381 in 2020-21 to 481 in 2024-25.
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Monmouth County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
645,353
Census ACS
Median income
$124,845
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
51%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
186
91,053 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Matawan-Aberdeen Regional School District
- Matawan Regional High SchoolHigh · 1,038 students
- Matawan-Aberdeen Middle SchoolMiddle · 835 students
- Lloyd Road Elementary SchoolElementary · 519 students
- Ravine Drive Elementary SchoolElementary · 395 students
- Cliffwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 358 students
- Cambridge Park Elementary SchoolElementary · 286 students
Other schools in ABERDEEN
- Matawan Regional High SchoolHigh · 1,038 students
- Lloyd Road Elementary SchoolElementary · 519 students
- Cambridge Park Elementary SchoolElementary · 286 students
Other Strathmore Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Strathmore Elementary. Strathmore Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 3.
- Strathmore ElementaryStrathmore, CA · 702 students
- Strathmore ElementarySilver Spring, MD · 464 students
Nearby schools
- Lloyd Road Elementary School0.3 mi · 519
- Cambridge Park Elementary School0.5 mi · 286
- Matawan Regional High School0.6 mi · 1,038
- Raritan Valley School0.8 mi · 241
- Beers Street School1.1 mi · 198
- Indian Hill School1.4 mi · 610
Frequently asked questions
About Strathmore Elementary SchoolHow large is Strathmore Elementary School?
Strathmore Elementary School enrolls approximately 481 students in grades PK-03.
What age range does Strathmore Elementary School serve?
Strathmore Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 03.
How many students per teacher at Strathmore Elementary School?
Approximately 13.8:1 students per teacher at Strathmore Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Strathmore Elementary School?
Student demographics at Strathmore Elementary School are roughly 66% White, 22% Hispanic, 4% Black, 4% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is Strathmore Elementary School in?
Strathmore Elementary School is part of Matawan-Aberdeen Regional School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.