Sylvia Rosenauer Elementary School
Test scores
NJSLA 2023-24 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 35 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 34 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 52 and 39.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 29% 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%.
6-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2023-24About Sylvia Rosenauer Elementary School
As a low-enrollment elementary-level community in Jackson, New Jersey, Sylvia Rosenauer Elementary School caters to 251 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within Jackson Township School District. Enrollment runs roughly 38% leaner than the state mean of about 405.
Within Jackson Township School District, which oversees 10 schools and 7,627 students, Sylvia Rosenauer Elementary School is one campus in the system.
Looking at the student body, Sylvia Rosenauer Elementary School records that 56% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest consists of 28% White, 10% Black, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 11% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. About 67% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Ocean County's rate of about 44%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Sylvia Rosenauer Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.3%, the actual is 31.8%, a residual of +2.5 points.
Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Ocean County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $89,863 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Ocean County's 117 public schools (combined enrollment of about 66,051 students), Sylvia Rosenauer Elementary School is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is Aldrich Elementary School, roughly 1.9 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Sylvia Rosenauer Elementary School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 33.9%.
Sylvia Rosenauer Elementary School operates from an outer-ring location.
Trend over the last 6 years. Looking back 6 years, enrollment at Sylvia Rosenauer Elementary School has ticked down 21%, going from 319 students in 2018 to 251 in 2024. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 60% to 28% over that span.
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