Summary:
The Matawan school list covers two schools serving different grade spans: Old Bridge High School serves grades 9–12 and enrolls 2,659 students, while Ravine Drive Elementary School serves pre-K–3 and enrolls 395. Because they have no common tested grade, their results do not support a fair overall school-to-school ranking. The clearest finding is that results vary sharply by subject, with Ravine’s latest grade 3 math score the most concerning area.
Old Bridge stands out in Algebra II and Geometry: in 2025–2026, grade 9 Algebra II proficiency was 90%, 38 points above the state, and Geometry was 69%, 19 points above. But its results are not uniformly strong: Algebra I end-of-course proficiency was 26%, 14 points below the state, and grade 11 Science was 24%, 4 points below. At Ravine Drive, grade 3 ELA was 53%, 5 points above the state, while Mathematics was 29%, 20 points below. These contrasts make subject-specific results more useful than a single label for either school.
Recent changes also differ. Ravine’s grade 3 Mathematics fell 21 points from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while ELA fell 12 points; its advantage over the state in ELA narrowed from 20 points to 5. Old Bridge’s grade 9 ELA improved to 53%, while Algebra I end-of-course and Science declined. SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking rose for Old Bridge, from the 49th percentile to the 51st, and fell for Ravine, from the 66th to the 38th. As context, in 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch eligible students made up 28% at Old Bridge and 29% at Ravine; student-teacher ratios were 13.5 and 13.0, respectively. Old Bridge also had a 95% graduation rate, alongside 20% chronic absenteeism; Ravine’s chronic absenteeism was 12%.
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