Keansburg School District

Keansburg School District serves students in three schools: Joseph C. Caruso School for kindergarten through grade 5 (595 students), Joseph R. Bolger Middle School for grades 6–8 (318 students), and Keansburg High School for grades 9–12 (379 students). In 2025–2026, most reported results at all three schools were below state results, particularly high-school Geometry, while Bolger’s eighth-grade Algebra I was a clear exception: 75% proficient, compared with 74.5% statewide.

Bolger has the strongest standout result, but it is specific to eighth-grade Algebra I; its regular grade-level math proficiency was only 6%–14%, and its ELA was 19%–36%. Caruso’s grade 3–5 ELA results were 12%–29% and math results 13%–22%; its strongest listed result was fifth-grade ELA at 29%. At the high school, Geometry proficiency was 0% in both reported rows, versus 50% for ninth grade and 52% for the End-of-Course state results. SchoolDigger places all three schools in the bottom 15% of its statewide rankings: the high school at the 8th percentile, Caruso at the 9th, and Bolger at the 14th. These grade spans differ, so their test averages are not direct school-to-school comparisons.

Two-year trends are mixed in elementary and middle grades, while the high school’s matched test results moved farther behind the state overall. Caruso’s average ELA rose from 21% to 22% and its average gap narrowed by 3 points, but its math average fell from 19% to 17%. Bolger’s ELA average was nearly unchanged, while its gap narrowed by 3 points; its standard math average edged up, with almost no change in the state gap. At the high school, the average gap across eight matched test rows widened by 4 points; Geometry fell from 14% to 0% in both reported rows. Chronic absenteeism was high at each school in 2024–2025: 29% at Caruso, 35% at Bolger, and 36% at the high school, versus 14% statewide. Student–teacher ratios were 9.6, 12.5, and 11.2, respectively. Free/reduced lunch eligible figures were 76% at Caruso and 76% at Bolger in 2024–2025, and 42% at the high school in 2023–2024.