Keyport School District

Keyport School District serves the Keyport area with two schools: Keyport Central School for pre-K through grade 8 and Keyport High School for grades 9–12, enrolling 977 students combined. The most important finding is that Central has standout results in some grades but substantial variation across subjects, while the high school’s listed proficiency results are below state levels despite a stronger graduation rate.

Central’s strongest comparison is eighth-grade Algebra I: 93% proficient in 2025–2026, 18 points above the state’s 75%; fifth-grade math was also strong at 60%, 15 points above the state. But Central’s third-grade math result was 24%, 25 points below the state, and fourth-grade ELA was 14 points below. At the high school, NJGPA English Language Arts was closest to the state, at 74% versus 76%; grade 9 Geometry was furthest below, at 27% versus 50%. The high school’s 2024–2025 graduation rate offers a positive counterpoint: 93% compared with 89% statewide.

Recent results show mixed progress, not a consistent direction. Central’s equal-weighted ELA average across grades 3–8 was 48% in 2025–2026, down from 50% the prior year, but its gap to the state narrowed from 4 points to 3; its math gap widened from about 0 points to 2 points below the state, while its science gap narrowed from 12 points to 7. At the high school, grade 9 Geometry improved by 18 points and NJGPA math by 9, while NJGPA ELA fell by 11 points. SchoolDigger’s rankings declined over three years: Central went from the 51st to the 38th percentile, and the high school from the 32nd to the 29th. In 2024–2025, student-teacher ratios were 8.9 at Central and 11.1 at the high school; free/reduced lunch eligible shares were 47% and 44%, respectively. These are school-level observations, not explanations of test results; the schools serve different grades, so their test scores do not support a direct same-grade comparison.