Best Public Schools in Holmdel, NJ

Holmdel, New Jersey, has four public schools serving prekindergarten through grade 12: Village School (PK–3), Indian Hill School (4–6), William R. Satz School (7–8), and Holmdel High School (9–12), with 2,821 students combined. In 2025–2026, 25 of the 26 numeric test results were above the state result for the same grade and subject, and one was below; three other results were suppressed. The strongest overall finding is that Holmdel schools generally outperform state proficiency levels, though the results vary by school, grade, and subject.

Village School and Indian Hill School have especially strong state comparisons: Village’s grade-3 ELA was 74% versus 48% statewide and math was 77% versus 49%; Indian Hill’s grade-6 ELA was 83% versus 51% and math was 82% versus 40%. Satz School led in Algebra I End of Course, at 100% versus 40% statewide. The clearest lower result was at Holmdel High School, where 10th-grade Algebra I was 9% versus 20% statewide; its End of Course Algebra I result was 42%, 58 points below Satz’s on that same test. SchoolDigger ranks Village 131 of 1,331 (90th percentile, five stars), Satz 40 of 743 (95th percentile, five stars), and Holmdel High 81 of 434 (81st percentile, four stars).

Results changed unevenly over time: across matched results, the average school-to-state gap narrowed by 1 point, while Village’s average gap widened by 4 points and the gaps narrowed by 1 to 2 points at each of the other schools. Village’s grade-3 scores rose, while Holmdel High’s grade-9 ELA fell 10 points. At Holmdel High, strong graduation outcomes—98% versus 89% statewide—coexist with the area’s highest chronic absenteeism, 25% versus 14% statewide. Student-teacher ratios range from 9.1 at Indian Hill to 11.3 at Village; free/reduced lunch eligible figures in 2024–2025 were closely grouped, from 2.8% to 3.3%. These are useful points of comparison, but the figures do not establish that school size, staffing ratios, or the income measure explains test results.