Township of Ocean Intermediate School

Township of Ocean Intermediate School is a sizable middle school in OCEAN, New Jersey, run under Township of Ocean School District. The school educates 889 students in grades 5 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 54% bigger than the state mean of about 578.

Within Township of Ocean School District, which oversees 5 schools and 3,163 students, Township of Ocean Intermediate School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Township of Ocean Intermediate School records that the largest single group is White, at 58% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 23% Hispanic, 10% Black, 5% Asian, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 74%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Township of Ocean Intermediate School has 94 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.9:1, putting Township of Ocean Intermediate School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 37% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Township of Ocean Intermediate School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.7%, the actual is 43.8%, a residual of -1.9 points.

In the broader community, Monmouth County reports that median household earnings sit near $124,845, 51% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Monmouth County runs 186 public schools (combined enrollment of about 91,053 students), of which Township of Ocean Intermediate School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Wayside Elementary School, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Township of Ocean Intermediate School comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 51.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Township of Ocean Intermediate School has declined 16%, going from 1,055 students in 2018 to 889 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 16% to 23% over that span.

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