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Best Public Schools in Colts Neck, NJ


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4
Schools
2,437
Students
2
Districts
1
5-star school
Top rankedCedar Drive Middle School53rd of 743 New Jersey middle schools
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Biggest riser
Colts Neck High School up 4 spots statewide this year
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Summary:

Colts Neck, New Jersey, has four schools serving pre-K through grade 12, with 2,437 students across Conover Road Primary School, Conover Road Elementary School, Cedar Drive Middle School, and Colts Neck High School. Conover Road Primary has no test scores in the supplied data, and the schools serve different tested grades, so direct school-to-school score comparisons have limits. The clearest standout in the latest results is Cedar Drive Middle, especially in mathematics: its grades 6–8 results exceeded state figures by 33, 33, and 42 percentage points.

Conover Road Elementary also stands out: all seven of its 2025–2026 results were above state figures, including grade 5 mathematics at 79% versus 46%, a 33-point advantage. Cedar Drive was above the state in ELA as well, by 14 to 27 points across grades 6–8. Colts Neck High had a more mixed profile: Algebra II end-of-course proficiency was 83% versus 52% statewide, but Algebra I end-of-course proficiency was 31% versus 40%, 9 points below the state. SchoolDigger ranked Cedar Drive at the 93rd percentile and gave it five stars in 2025–2026; Conover Road Elementary was at the 77th percentile and Colts Neck High at the 74th.

Results changed unevenly over time: across matched test results, the average school advantage over state figures narrowed from 19 points in 2024–2025 to 17 points in 2025–2026. At Cedar Drive, ELA proficiency fell by 13 to 21 points across grades 6–8, while grade 8 mathematics rose 13 points and science rose 8. At Colts Neck High, the Algebra II advantage widened from 20 to 30 points even as the school’s score fell, while Algebra I’s end-of-course result moved from 2 points above the state to 9 below. School context also differs: the three schools below high school have student–teacher ratios of 7.5–8.8, compared with 14.7 at the high school. All four report free/reduced lunch eligible for 2024–2025; shares range from 2% at Conover Road Primary to 24% at Colts Neck High. These are useful comparisons, not explanations for test outcomes.

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the New Jersey Department of Education.

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