Long Beach Island School District

Long Beach Island School District has one school, Long Beach Island Elementary School, serving pre-kindergarten through grade 6 and enrolling 104 students. The school’s 2025–26 results are above state results in every reported grade and subject, with its largest advantage in grade 5 science: about 59% proficient compared with 27% statewide, a 32-point gap.

With no other school in the district, there is no local school-to-school leader or trailer; the standout is the elementary school’s broad performance above the state. Its average advantage across the four tested grades is 19 points in math, compared with 12 points in ELA. By grade, the math advantage ranges from 14 to 25 points, while the ELA advantage ranges from 5 to 15 points. Grade 6 ELA is the closest result to the state benchmark: about 56% proficient at the school versus 51% statewide, a 5-point advantage. The school still exceeds the state in that grade, but the gap is notably smaller than in its other reported ELA grades.

There is no test-score trend to assess because results are available for 2025–26 only. SchoolDigger ranks the school 311th of 1,331 statewide, at the 77th percentile, and gives it four stars; its listed percentile rose 35 points from 42 in 2011–12, after standing at 88 in 2010–11, so those figures do not show a steady climb. As context, the school’s 2024–25 student–teacher ratio is 7.5, and 13% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible. Chronic absenteeism was 10% in 2024–25, below the district’s 13% and the state’s 14%. These context figures do not establish why the school’s results differ from state averages.