Summary:
Beach Park CCSD 3 has five schools: four elementary schools serving through grade 5 and one middle school serving grades 6–8. In 2025–2026, the schools’ average proficiency was 32% in ELA and 19% in math, compared with 56% and 40% statewide. The clearest overall finding is that every school scored below the state in both all-grades subjects.
Newport Elementary leads in all-grades ELA at 43%, 13 points above the average for the other schools, and also leads fifth-grade science at 38%. Oak Crest School leads in all-grades math at 26%, 9 points above the other schools’ average; it is also the only elementary school with reported math proficiency above its district comparison in all three tested grades. At the other end, Howe Elementary School has the lowest all-grades results: 22% in ELA and 11% in math, respectively 13 and 9 points below the other schools’ averages. Newport’s grade 5 ELA score, 53%, is just 2 points below the state result.
Scores rose in most subjects from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, but the average school fell slightly farther behind the state in ELA and math because statewide results rose faster. ELA averages increased about 2.6 points for the schools versus 3.2 statewide; math increased 0.9 versus 1.1 points. Newport’s math score fell 4 points, an exception to the general improvement. SchoolDigger ranks Newport highest among these schools statewide, at the 21st percentile; Oak Crest is at the 12th, Beach Park Middle School and Kenneth Murphy School at the 6th, and Howe at the 3rd. Among elementary schools, the 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch eligible share ranged from 54% at Murphy to 76% at Howe; Newport’s was 65%, and Oak Crest’s was 55%. Oak Crest also had the lowest reported student-teacher ratio, 10.0, while Newport was the smallest school and led in ELA.
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