Summary:
The middle-school list for Colts Neck Township School District has one school, Cedar Drive Middle School, serving grades 6–8 with 319 students. The latest results are from 2025–2026, and Cedar Drive was above state proficiency in every reported result with a school score. Its strongest overall message for families is that results remain above state levels, even as ELA performance and the school’s advantage in that subject have fallen.
Against the state, Cedar Drive’s largest reported advantage was in Algebra I end-of-course results: 98% proficient versus 40% statewide, a 58-point lead. Its smallest advantage was in 8th-grade science, at 36% versus 19%, or 17 points higher. Across core subjects, the school’s average math result was 70% compared with 34% statewide, a 36-point lead; its average ELA result was 73% compared with 53%, a 20-point lead. Cedar Drive is the only listed middle school, so there is no local school-to-school comparison or bottom-ranked school.
Recent changes make ELA the main trend to watch: proficiency fell in all three grades from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, by 13 points in 6th grade, 12 in 7th, and 21 in 8th. In contrast, 8th-grade math rose 13 points, and 8th-grade science rose 8 points; 6th-grade math fell 6 points, while 7th-grade math was nearly unchanged. SchoolDigger gives the district a rank of 89 out of 607, at the 85th percentile, with four stars; Cedar Drive’s school rank was 53 out of 743 in 2025–2026, compared with 45 out of 752 the prior year. Context figures for 2024–2025 include a student–teacher ratio of 7.5, 4% free/reduced lunch eligible, and chronic absenteeism of 8% at Cedar Drive, versus 9% districtwide and 14% statewide.
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