Thomas B. Conley Elementary School

Thomas B. Conley Elementary School is one of the close-knit primary schools in ASBURY, New Jersey, run under Bethlehem Township School District, with 258 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 405 students each, so Thomas B. Conley Elementary School sits 36% below that benchmark.

Across the 2 schools in Bethlehem Township School District (377 students total), Thomas B. Conley Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Thomas B. Conley Elementary School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (85%). The remainder looks like 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with Hunterdon County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Thomas B. Conley Elementary School has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting Thomas B. Conley Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. About 3% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Hunterdon County runs at roughly 16%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Thomas B. Conley Elementary School is in the bottom 10% of New Jersey public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 64.7%; Thomas B. Conley Elementary School posts 46.6%, -18.1 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, Hunterdon County reports that median household income runs about $141,715, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. Thomas B. Conley Elementary School is one of 55 public schools in Hunterdon County (combined enrollment of about 18,056 students).

Nearest neighbor: Hampton Borough School, around 2.5 miles off. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Thomas B. Conley Elementary School comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 49.4%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Thomas B. Conley Elementary School has expanded 14%, going from 226 students in 2018 to 258 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 89% to 85%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 8.2:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 today.

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