Summary:
Spring Lake, New Jersey, has two elementary schools—Spring Lake Heights Elementary School and H W Mountz Elementary School—both serving prekindergarten through grade 8, with 422 students combined. Both schools’ reported test results in SY2025–26 were above the state result, though performance varied considerably by school and grade. Most importantly, H W Mountz scored higher in every ELA and math grade where both schools had results.
H W Mountz stands out at the top: its average across comparable grades was 96% in both ELA and math, compared with 75% and 61% at Spring Lake Heights. H W Mountz’s leads ranged from 6 points in grade 7 ELA to 36 points in grade 3 ELA, and from 15 points in grade 6 math to 45 points in grade 3 math. SchoolDigger ranks H W Mountz 1st of 1,331 New Jersey schools, with five stars; Spring Lake Heights ranks 386th, with four stars. Spring Lake Heights has bright spots, including 87% proficiency in grade 7 ELA and 100% in grade 7 Algebra I, but its grade 7 math result was 48% and grade 5 science was 32%.
Recent results were mixed, with sharper declines at Spring Lake Heights. Its grade 7 math proficiency fell 33 points, from 81% to 48%, and grade 5 science fell 28 points, from 59% to 32%; H W Mountz, by contrast, gained 11 points in grade 7 math and 9 points in grade 8 ELA. Across results available in both years, the average school-to-state advantage narrowed by about 3 points, largely reflecting declines at Spring Lake Heights. SchoolDigger rankings moved from 8th to 1st for H W Mountz and from 332nd to 386th for Spring Lake Heights between SY2023–24 and SY2025–26. In SY2024–25, student-teacher ratios were 5.5 at H W Mountz and 6.7 at Spring Lake Heights; free/reduced lunch eligible figures were 4% and 10%, respectively. These are two relatively small schools, so year-to-year results can vary across student cohorts.
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