Summary:
Long Branch, New Jersey, has nine schools serving early childhood through high school: six elementary schools, one middle school and two high schools, with 5,441 students enrolled. Seven schools have test results in the data; the two schools serving PK–K do not. Among the three K–5 schools with results, average proficiency is 23% in ELA and 26% in math, compared with state averages of 49% and 47%. The most important finding is that all three tested elementary schools are well below state averages in both subjects.
A A Anastasia Elementary School leads the three K–5 schools, averaging 27% in ELA and 33% in math; George L Catrambone averages 25% and 30%, while Gregory Elementary School is lowest at 18% and 17%. At high school, Academy of Law & Public Safety leads Long Branch High School in grade 9 ELA, 76% to 35%, and Algebra I, 33% to 15%. Long Branch High is higher in Geometry and 11th-grade NJGPA math. Long Branch Middle School has low general-grade math results—10%–16%—but its Algebra I result is 81%, versus 40% statewide.
Elementary averages improved from 2024–25 to 2025–26: ELA rose from 18% to 23%, and math from 20% to 26%. Math averages rose at all three schools, while ELA varied; Anastasia’s ELA average fell from 28% to 27%. At Long Branch Middle, average ELA rose from 31% to 33%, but math fell from 14% to 12%. SchoolDigger ranks the Academy at the 58th percentile, the highest reported percentile among schools with rank histories; the other reported percentiles range from Gregory’s 5th to Anastasia’s 20th. As context, free/reduced lunch eligible shares in 2024–25 were 85% at Gregory, 82% at Catrambone and 81% at Anastasia. Attendance also differs: Long Branch High reported 95% graduation and 26% chronic absenteeism in 2024–25, while the Academy reported 100% graduation and 3% chronic absenteeism.
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