West Freehold School

West Freehold School is a reasonably sized elementary campus in FREEHOLD, New Jersey, one of the schools within Freehold Township School District. The school hosts 447 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Freehold Township School District runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 3,406 students. West Freehold School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, West Freehold School logs that 70% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 16% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 4% Black, 3% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, West Freehold School shows 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting West Freehold School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 18% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Monmouth County runs at roughly 29%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, West Freehold School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.4%, the actual is 60.6%, a residual of +4.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, Monmouth County reports that median household earnings sit near $124,845, roughly 51% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. West Freehold School is one of 186 public schools in Monmouth County (combined enrollment of about 91,053 students).

Early Childhood Learning Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), West Freehold School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 43.8%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 11%: 503 students in 2018 compared to 447 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 6% to 16%.

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