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William R. Satz School
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NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 84 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 73 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 69% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 65% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About William R. Satz School
William R. Satz School is one of the tight-knit junior highs in HOLMDEL, New Jersey, operated by Holmdel Township School District, with 455 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 8. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 578 students each, so William R. Satz School sits 21% below that benchmark.
Holmdel Township School District comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 2,821 students; William R. Satz School is among them.
On the student-mix side, William R. Satz School reports that White students make up the majority at 66%. Other groups include 19% Asian, 7% multiracial, 7% Hispanic. By comparison, Monmouth County as a whole is about 74% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.
Looking at the economic backdrop, William R. Satz School lists 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.9:1, putting William R. Satz School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 3% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Monmouth County (around 29%), the school's rate is south of typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), William R. Satz School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.6%, the actual is 68.5%, a residual of +3.9 points.
Around the school, Monmouth County reports that the typical household earns roughly $124,845 per year, 51% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. William R. Satz School is one of 186 public schools in Monmouth County (combined enrollment of about 91,053 students).
The closest other public school is Holmdel High School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, William R. Satz School comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 59.9%.
William R. Satz School operates from an outer-ring location.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at William R. Satz School has contracted 11%, going from 514 students in 2018 to 455 in 2025.
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