Thurgood Marshall Elementary School

Located at 600 MONROE AVENUE, in ASBURY PARK, New Jersey, Thurgood Marshall Elementary School is a mid-sized primary school that works with 443 students (grades pre-K through 2), run under Asbury Park School District.

Asbury Park School District comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,362 students; Thurgood Marshall Elementary School is among them.

Demographically, Thurgood Marshall Elementary School logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 45% Black, 5% White, 3% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 13%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Thurgood Marshall Elementary School has 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting Thurgood Marshall Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 80% of students at Thurgood Marshall Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Monmouth County (around 29%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Thurgood Marshall Elementary School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 22.3%; actual is 7.8%, a gap of -14.4 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Monmouth County put median household income runs about $124,845, 51% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Thurgood Marshall Elementary School is one of 186 public schools in Monmouth County (combined enrollment of about 91,053 students).

The closest other public school is Hope Academy Charter School, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Thurgood Marshall Elementary School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 26.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 440 students in 2018 compared to 443 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 59% to 47% across the same window.

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