Summary:
Lavallette Elementary School is the only school in the Lavallette Borough School District listing, serving prekindergarten through grade 8 and enrolling 142 students in 2024–25; there is no other local school here to compare it with. Its latest results are mixed by grade, but math is the clearest concern: in 2025–26, results averaged 37% across grades 3, 5, 6 and 7, compared with 43% statewide—a 7-point shortfall—and the school trailed the state in all four grades.
The strongest result was 8th-grade ELA: 75% met expectations, 22 percentage points above New Jersey’s 53% (rounded). The weakest relative result was 6th-grade ELA, at 33% versus 51% statewide, an 18-point gap. ELA overall was more favorable than math, though uneven: grade 7 was 8 points above the state, while grade 3 was 2 points below. Science also differed by grade: 5th grade was 13 points above the state, while 8th grade was 2 points below. These are grade-level standouts, not differences between schools.
Over time, the average ELA shortfall across the same grades stayed around 2 points, while math moved from nearly even with the state in 2024–25 to 7 points behind in 2025–26; grade-level changes varied considerably. Science improved relative to the state in grade 5, moving from 7 points below in 2024–25 to 13 points above in 2025–26, but grade 8 shifted from 2 points above to 2 points below. SchoolDigger gives the school 2 stars and ranks it 704th of 1,331 schools, at the 47th percentile; its percentile was 49th in 2023–24 and 42nd in 2024–25. Context measures include a 7.2 student-teacher ratio and 18% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–25; chronic absenteeism was 14% versus 14% statewide that year.
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