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What tradition at Walnut Street Elementary School should never be changed?
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Enrollment
727
Elementary
DISTRICT 528 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·TOMS RIVER REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341623004744
Walnut Street Elementary School
60 WALNUT STREET, TOMS RIVER, NJ 08753 · (732) 505-5900 · Ocean County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL727 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 12% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
55 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.7:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
64%
468 students
DISTRICT 47% · STATE 41%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 107 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 111 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 127 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 126 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 127 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 129 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (107) is 17% smaller than its 5th grade class (129).
Student demographics
66%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
27.1%
NJ avg 53.1% . +2.0pp since 2023
Math
30.2%
NJ avg 41.6% . +2.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 27 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 30 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 27.1% | 30.2% |
| 2023-24 | 25.1% | 28.0% |
% 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
24.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
30.9%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 25% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 31% 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 Walnut Street Elementary School
Walnut Street Elementary School's state test result (24.9% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Walnut Street Elementary School this school | 727 | 64.4% | 24.9% |
| Crawford-Rodriguez Elementary School Jackson | 718 | 63.9% | 28.6% |
| Riverside Elementary School RIVERSIDE | 768 | 64.6% | 20.4% |
| South Amboy Elementary SOUTH AMBOY | 584 | 62.0% | 30.7% |
| Anthony Rossi Elementary School VINELAND | 595 | 57.1% | 34.5% |
| Manchester Township Elementary School MANCHESTER | 573 | 59.9% | 31.7% |
Matched among New Jersey elementary 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 Walnut Street Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Ocean County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 24.9% | #1,052 of 1,290 | #47 of 51 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 30.2% | #974 of 1,319 no change | #43 of 52 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 27.1% | #1,151 of 1,319 ▼ 3 | #48 of 52 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 727 | #97 of 1,562 | #7 of 70 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.3:1 | #1,147 of 1,390 | #44 of 59 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 66.4% | #275 of 1,392 | #3 of 59 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 64.4% | #415 of 1,481 | #12 of 67 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.6% | #512 of 798 | #17 of 30 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
727
-20 (-3%) vs 2020
-32% since 1990-91, when it was 1,064
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
was 11.5:1
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 | 727 | 54.5 | 13.3:1 | 64% (468) |
| 2023-24 | 718 | 59.5 | 12.1:1 | 54% (388) |
| 2022-23 | 739 | 58 | 12.7:1 | 51% (378) |
| 2020-21 | 747 | 65 | 11.5:1 | 51% (378) |
| 2017-18 | 787 | 61.8 | 12.7:1 | 51% (400) |
| 2015-16 | 776 | 61 | 12.7:1 | 53% (411) |
| 2010-11 | 844 | 53 | 15.9:1 | 36% (308) |
| 2000-01 | 984 | 56 | 17.6:1 | 22% (214) |
| 1990-91 | 1,064 | 60 | 17.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Walnut Street Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 8% (787 to 727); teachers down 12% (61.8 to 54.5).
About Walnut Street Elementary School
In TOMS RIVER, New Jersey, part of Ocean County, Walnut Street Elementary School is an elementary school. The school runs kindergarten through 5 and enrolls 727 students. By comparison, elementary schools in New Jersey enroll about 405 students on average.
Across its 18 schools, Toms River Regional School District enrolls 14,323 students. Walnut Street Elementary School is one of those schools.
Hispanic students make up 45% of enrollment at Walnut Street Elementary School, the largest share of any group. Other groups include 34% White, 12% Black, 6% multiracial, and 4% Asian. The county population is about 11% Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 66, compared with 70 nationally.
Based on 54.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, Walnut Street Elementary School has a ratio of 13.3:1. The average for elementary schools in New Jersey, 11.4:1, is lower. Income data for the school show 64% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Across public schools in Ocean County, the average is 44%.
Walnut Street Elementary School earns a D on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 12% of New Jersey public elementary schools.
Walnut Street Elementary School's actual average proficiency rate across its state test results (24.9%) and its predicted rate (30.9%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of New Jersey schools.
In Ocean County, the median household earns about $89,863 a year, about 34% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. Ocean County has 117 public schools with about 66,051 students, including Walnut Street Elementary School.
Toms River High School South, about 0.9 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, Walnut Street Elementary School is 8th on average proficiency.
The school's federal locale classification is Suburb: Large.
The school shrank from 747 students in 2020-21 to 727 in 2024-25. There were more students per teacher in 2024-25 (13.3:1) than in 2020-21 (11.5:1).
On allk12, people connected to Walnut Street Elementary School can post about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. 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 NorthHigh · 1,861 students
- 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
Other schools in TOMS RIVER
- Toms River High School NorthHigh · 1,861 students
- 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
Other Walnut Street Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Walnut Street Elementary. Walnut Street Elementary School is the largest of the 3.
- WALNUT STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOLUNIONDALE, NY · 505 students
- Walnut Street Elementary SchoolDarby, PA · 255 students
Nearby schools
- Toms River High School South0.9 mi · 1,463
- Toms River High School North1.0 mi · 1,861
- Cedar Grove Elementary School1.4 mi · 931
- Toms River Intermediate School North1.6 mi · 970
- Washington Street Elementary School1.6 mi · 354
- West Dover Elementary School1.9 mi · 387
Frequently asked questions
About Walnut Street Elementary SchoolHow large is Walnut Street Elementary School?
Walnut Street Elementary School enrolls approximately 727 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Walnut Street Elementary School serve?
Walnut Street Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Walnut Street Elementary School?
Approximately 13.3:1 students per teacher at Walnut Street Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Walnut Street Elementary School?
Student demographics at Walnut Street Elementary School are roughly 34% White, 45% Hispanic, 12% Black, 4% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is Walnut Street Elementary School in?
Walnut Street Elementary School is part of Toms River Regional School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.