Wanamassa Elementary School

Wanamassa Elementary School is one of the reasonably sized K-5 schools in WANAMASSA, New Jersey, run under Township of Ocean School District, with 356 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 4.

Township of Ocean School District runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 3,163 students. Wanamassa Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Wanamassa Elementary School lists that the largest single group is White, at 78% of enrollment; the rest consists of 15% Hispanic, 3% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with Monmouth County as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting Wanamassa Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 15% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Monmouth County's rate of about 29%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Wanamassa Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 57.7%; this one delivers 67.1%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Monmouth County indicate the typical household earns roughly $124,845 per year, roughly 51% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 Wanamassa Elementary School is one.

Asbury Park High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Wanamassa Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Wanamassa Elementary School comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 29.5%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 15%: 310 students in 2018 compared to 356 in 2025.

On this page, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.