West Belmar Elementary School

West Belmar Elementary School is an elementary school of low-enrollment scale in WALL, New Jersey, overseen by Wall Township Public School District, instructing 171 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 405 students each, so West Belmar Elementary School sits 58% smaller than that benchmark.

Wall Township Public School District comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 3,194 students; West Belmar Elementary School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, West Belmar Elementary School logs that White students make up the majority at 69%. The remainder breaks down as 22% Hispanic, 4% Black, 3% Asian.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 7.0:1. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 33% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, West Belmar Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.9%, the actual is 60.8%, a residual of +12.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Monmouth County) shows that median household earnings sit near $124,845, about 51% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. West Belmar Elementary School is one of 186 public schools in Monmouth County (combined enrollment of about 91,053 students).

Nearest neighbor: Academy Charter High School, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around West Belmar Elementary School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), West Belmar Elementary School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 59.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. West Belmar Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 8% since 2018, when it stood at 185 (now 171). The Hispanic share of enrollment edged down from 30% to 22% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 8.4:1 in 2018 to 7.0:1 today.

On allk12, members of the West Belmar Elementary School community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.