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Enrollment
1,861
High
DISTRICT 1,567 · STATE 929
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·TOMS RIVER REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341623004722
Toms River High School North
1245 OLD FREEHOLD ROAD, TOMS RIVER, NJ 08753 · (732) 505-5702 · Ocean County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,861 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 42% of New Jersey public high schools
- C+Test 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 high schools
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
134 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.4:1 · STATE 12.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
48%
890 students
DISTRICT 47% · STATE 41%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 394 | 21% |
| Grade 10 | 464 | 25% |
| Grade 11 | 513 | 28% |
| Grade 12 | 490 | 26% |
Student demographics
64%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 58% · 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
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
45.6%
NJ avg 53.1% . -12.1pp since 2023
Math
23.6%
NJ avg 41.6% . +0.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 46 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 24 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 12 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 45.6% | 23.6% |
| 2023-24 | 57.7% | 23.3% |
% 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
31.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.0%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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 Toms River High School North
Toms River High School North's state test result (31.7% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Toms River High School North this school | 1,861 | 47.8% | 31.7% |
| Morristown High School MORRISTOWN | 1,816 | 40.7% | 39.8% |
| Cumberland County Technical Education Center Millville | 1,296 | 40.6% | 53.2% |
| Freehold Borough High School FREEHOLD | 1,376 | 40.8% | 42.5% |
| Red Bank Regional High School LITTLE SILVER | 1,261 | 40.9% | 40.5% |
| Toms River High School South TOMS RIVER | 1,463 | 41.5% | 29.4% |
Matched among New Jersey high 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 Toms River High School North ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Ocean County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 31.7% | #242 of 397 | #12 of 19 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 23.6% | #232 of 400 ▲ 3 | #9 of 19 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 45.6% | #237 of 395 ▼ 21 | #9 of 18 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,861 | #42 of 442 | #1 of 22 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.9:1 | #314 of 388 | #16 of 19 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.2% | #102 of 389 | #1 of 19 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 47.8% | #155 of 405 | #5 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.4% | #76 of 200 | #3 of 11 |
Ranked against other public high 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
1,861
-72 (-4%) vs 2020
+19% since 1990-91, when it was 1,563
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
was 13.9:1
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 | 1,861 | 134.2 | 13.9:1 | 48% (890) |
| 2023-24 | 1,962 | 136.1 | 14.4:1 | 38% (738) |
| 2022-23 | 1,931 | 136.6 | 14.1:1 | 28% (535) |
| 2020-21 | 1,933 | 139 | 13.9:1 | 26% (499) |
| 2017-18 | 2,101 | 157.3 | 13.4:1 | 25% (531) |
| 2015-16 | 2,254 | 161 | 14.0:1 | 24% (552) |
| 2010-11 | 2,242 | 149 | 15.1:1 | 17% (375) |
| 2000-01 | 2,051 | 135 | 15.2:1 | 7% (138) |
| 1990-91 | 1,563 | 128 | 12.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Toms River High School North.
Since 2017-18: students down 11% (2,101 to 1,861); teachers down 15% (157.3 to 134.2).
About Toms River High School North
In TOMS RIVER, New Jersey, Toms River High School North is a high-enrollment high school. It teaches 1,861 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, high schools in New Jersey enroll about 929 students on average.
A total of 18 schools make up Toms River Regional School District, with 14,323 students enrolled.
White students make up 46% of enrollment at Toms River High School North, the largest share of any group. Other reported shares: 37% Hispanic, 8% Black, 5% Asian, and 4% multiracial. That compares with about 83% White among all Ocean County residents. A diversity index of 64% means there is a 64% chance two randomly chosen students at Toms River High School North are from different groups.
For every teacher at Toms River High School North, there are about 13.9 students; the school has 134.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. Compared with the 12.7:1 average for high schools in New Jersey, this school's ratio is higher. The eligibility rate for free or reduced-price meals is 48%.
On the allk12 Grade, Toms River High School North lands at C+, ahead of 42% of New Jersey public high schools.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Toms River High School North is -8.3 points: 31.7% actual, 40.0% predicted.
For Ocean County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $89,863 a year, roughly 34% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 7%. Public schools in Ocean County number 117, with about 66,051 students.
Toms River Intermediate School North, about 0.7 miles away, is the closest public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of the 9 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Toms River High School North is 7th on average proficiency.
Federal data place Toms River High School North in the Suburb: Large locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment fell from 1,933 to 1,861, a 4% decrease.
People can post here about homework, tutoring, and testing dates and other school topics. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Ocean County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
654,362
Census ACS
Median income
$89,863
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
117
66,051 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Toms River Regional School District
- Toms River High School SouthHigh · 1,463 students
- Toms River High School EastHigh · 1,377 students
- Toms River Intermediate School EastMiddle · 1,271 students
- Toms River Intermediate School SouthMiddle · 1,044 students
- Toms River Intermediate School NorthMiddle · 970 students
- Cedar Grove Elementary SchoolElementary · 931 students
Other schools in TOMS RIVER
- Toms River High School SouthHigh · 1,463 students
- Toms River High School EastHigh · 1,377 students
- Toms River Intermediate School EastMiddle · 1,271 students
- Toms River Intermediate School NorthMiddle · 970 students
- Cedar Grove Elementary SchoolElementary · 931 students
- Walnut Street Elementary SchoolElementary · 727 students
Nearby schools
- Toms River Intermediate School North0.7 mi · 970
- Walnut Street Elementary School1.0 mi · 727
- Hooper Avenue Elementary School1.5 mi · 693
- Cedar Grove Elementary School1.7 mi · 931
- Toms River High School South1.8 mi · 1,463
- Toms River Intermediate School East1.8 mi · 1,271
Frequently asked questions
About Toms River High School NorthHow large is Toms River High School North?
Toms River High School North enrolls approximately 1,861 students in grades 09-12.
Is Toms River High School North an elementary, middle, or high school?
Toms River High School North is a high school covering grades 09-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Toms River High School North?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Toms River High School North is approximately 13.9:1 (134 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Toms River High School North?
Toms River High School North reports a student body of 46% White, 37% Hispanic, 8% Black, 5% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is Toms River High School North public or private?
Toms River High School North is a public K-12 school, overseen by Toms River Regional School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.