Walnut Street Elementary School

Set in TOMS RIVER, New Jersey, Walnut Street Elementary School is a roomy primary school, run under Toms River Regional School District. It educates 727 students across grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 80% above the state mean of about 405.

Toms River Regional School District comprises 18 schools with combined enrollment of 14,323 students; Walnut Street Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Walnut Street Elementary School shows that 45% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 34% White, 12% Black, 6% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 11%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 64% of students at Walnut Street Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Ocean County runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Walnut Street Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 30.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 24.9%.

Around the school, 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%. Walnut Street Elementary School is one of 117 public schools in Ocean County (combined enrollment of about 66,051 students).

Nearest neighbor: Toms River High School South, around 0.9 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Walnut Street Elementary School comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 33.4%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Walnut Street Elementary School has fell 8%, going from 787 students in 2018 to 727 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 41% to 34%.

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