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Manchester Township School District

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At a glance

451^stof 607 New Jersey districts▲ 7

Better than 25% of New Jersey districts

Elementary 3 Middle 1 High 1 Alternative 1Grades PK, KG-12

121 Route 539
Whiting, NJ 08759·(732) 350-5900·All New Jersey district rankings →

Statewide performance 2018–2026

2026: better than 25.7% of districts

Schools

2,904

Students

Top rankedWhiting Elementary School692^nd of 1,331 New Jersey elementary schools

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Biggest riser

Manchester Township Elementary School up 39 spots statewide this year

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Smallest classes

Whiting Elementary School 8.9 students per teacher

SchoolDigger ratings

2★

1★

1 school without a SchoolDigger rating (too few tested students)

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Summary:

Manchester Township School District has six schools serving prekindergarten through grade 12, with 2,904 students and three elementary schools, a middle school, a high school and an alternative school. The latest test results are for 2025–2026, and they show a varied picture across schools and grade spans. The clearest shared academic concern is elementary math: the three elementary schools average 30% proficient, compared with 47% statewide, a gap of 18 percentage points; their ELA average is 41%, versus 49% statewide.

Whiting Elementary School stands out among the elementary schools, leading in most reported grades and subjects. Its fifth graders scored 67% in ELA, 53% in math and 30% in science, all above state results; Ridgeway Elementary School scored 34%, 26% and 9% in those subjects and was lowest among the elementary schools in every reported ELA and math grade and fifth-grade science. The fifth-grade spread between the two schools was 32 points in ELA and 28 in math. Manchester Township Elementary School leads fourth-grade math, an important exception to Whiting’s overall lead. The middle school’s profile is stronger in math than ELA: its grade 7 and 8 math results beat the state by 5 and 12 points, while ELA trails in all three grades. At the high school, grade 9 Geometry is 4 points above the state, but grade 9 Algebra I and grade 11 science are below it.

Recent trends differ by grade span: elementary results moved farther below state averages, while the middle school’s comparisons generally improved. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, the average elementary gap widened from 5 to 8 points below the state in ELA and from 10 to 18 points below in math; the middle school’s average ELA gap narrowed from 12 to 10 points, and its math advantage grew from 1 to 3 points. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile for the middle school rose from 39 to 48, while Ridgeway’s fell from 30 to 15 over the latest year. As context, all six schools report free/reduced lunch eligible figures for 2024–2025, ranging from 37% at Whiting to 60% at Manchester Township Elementary; Whiting also has a lower student-teacher ratio than the other conventional elementary schools, 8.9 compared with 10.0 at Ridgeway and 11.4 at Manchester Township Elementary.

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Ranking:

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School													Students/Teachers											Ranking (2026)				Ranking (2025)				NJGPA English Language Arts (2026)	NJGPA Mathematics (2026)	NJSLA-S Science (2026)			NJSLA English Language Arts (2026)							NJSLA Mathematics (2026)						NJSLA Algebra I (2026)			NJSLA Geometry (2026)			NJSLA Algebra II (2026)		Per Pupil Expenditures (2025)
Name	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	Enrollment	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Free/reduced lunch (2024-25)	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Average Standard Score (2026)	Statewide Rank (2026)	State Percentile (2026)	SchoolDigger Rating (2026)	Average Standard Score (2025)	Statewide Rank (2025)	State Percentile (2025)	Rank Change from Previous Year	NJGPA English Language Arts 11th Grade	NJGPA Mathematics 11th Grade	NJSLA-S Science 5th Grade	NJSLA-S Science 8th Grade	NJSLA-S Science 11th Grade	NJSLA English Language Arts 3rd Grade	NJSLA English Language Arts 4th Grade	NJSLA English Language Arts 5th Grade	NJSLA English Language Arts 6th Grade	NJSLA English Language Arts 7th Grade	NJSLA English Language Arts 8th Grade	NJSLA English Language Arts 9th Grade	NJSLA Mathematics 3rd Grade	NJSLA Mathematics 4th Grade	NJSLA Mathematics 5th Grade	NJSLA Mathematics 6th Grade	NJSLA Mathematics 7th Grade	NJSLA Mathematics 8th Grade	NJSLA Algebra I 8th Grade	NJSLA Algebra I 9th Grade	NJSLA Algebra I End of Course	NJSLA Geometry 9th Grade	NJSLA Geometry 10th Grade	NJSLA Geometry End of Course	NJSLA Algebra II 9th Grade	NJSLA Algebra II End of Course	Per Pupil Expenditures Total	Sub-total from Federal Funds	Sub-total from State/Local Funds
Manchester Township Elementary School	Public	PK, KG-5	101 N Colonial Drive	Manchester	08733	Ocean County	Manchester Township School District	No	(n/a)	No	Yes	(732) 323-9600	573	50	11.4	59.9%	226 (39.4%)	43 (7.5%)	244 (42.6%)	22 (3.8%)	1 (0.2%)	1 (0.2%)	36 (6.3%)	28	954^th of 1331 public elementary schools	28.3%		27.3	993^rd of 1347 public elementary schools	26.3%	39			18.1			33.4	39.7	43.6					23.4	37.2	28.4												$18,109	$519	$17,590
Manchester Township High School	Public	9-12	101 Hawks Way	Manchester	08759	Ocean County	Manchester Township School District	No	(n/a)	No	No	(732) 657-2121	947	87	10.9	50.2%	479 (50.6%)	96 (10.1%)	288 (30.4%)	35 (3.7%)	3 (0.3%)	1 (0.1%)	43 (4.5%)	35.6	277^th of 434 public high schools	36.2%		32.6	302^nd of 434 public high schools	30.4%	25	74.3	61.0			14.6							40.1								13.0	13.0	54.1		52.0			$18,736	$85	$18,651
Ridgeway Elementary School	Public	PK, KG-5	2861 Ridgeway Rd	Manchester	08759	Ocean County	Manchester Township School District	No	(n/a)	No	Yes	(732) 323-0800	476	47	10.0	57.4%	175 (36.8%)	51 (10.7%)	212 (44.5%)	12 (2.5%)	0 (0.0%)	1 (0.2%)	25 (5.3%)	16.4	1130^th of 1331 public elementary schools	15.1%		30.4	949^th of 1347 public elementary schools	29.5%	181			8.5			28.5	30.4	34.3					22.2	17.3	25.7												$20,951	$558	$20,393
Whiting Elementary School	Public	PK, KG-5	412 Manchester Blvd	Whiting	08759	Ocean County	Manchester Township School District	No	(n/a)	No	No	(732) 350-4994	266	30	8.9	37.2%	174 (65.4%)	15 (5.6%)	58 (21.8%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	1 (0.4%)	18 (6.8%)	47.8	692^nd of 1331 public elementary schools	48.0%		48.2	706^th of 1347 public elementary schools	47.6%	14			30.0			50.0	41.9	66.7					29.1	29.1	53.4												$24,949	$191	$24,758
Manchester Township Middle School	Public	6-8	2759 Ridgeway Rd	Manchester	08759	Ocean County	Manchester Township School District	No	(n/a)	No	Yes	(732) 657-1717	586	61	9.6	52.6%	278 (47.4%)	43 (7.3%)	200 (34.1%)	29 (4.9%)	2 (0.3%)	2 (0.3%)	32 (5.5%)	45.2	390^th of 743 public middle schools	47.5%		43	418^th of 752 public middle schools	44.4%	28				14.6					37.9	43.9	48.2					31.8	42.7	34.6	90.0		90.0						$20,102	$443	$19,659
Manchester Regional Day School	Public, Alternative	PK, KG-12	890 Toms River Road	Jackson	08527	Ocean County	Manchester Township School District	No	(n/a)	No	No	(732) 928-1500	56	14	3.9	50.0%	22 (39.3%)	8 (14.3%)	23 (41.1%)	2 (3.6%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	1 (1.8%)								(n/a)

Districts nearby

District	Distance	# of Schools	Statewide Rank
Lakehurst School District	1.06 mi	1	561^st
Toms River Regional School District	3.97 mi	18	439^th
Ocean County Jdc	4.02 mi	1
Office Of Education Juvenile Justice Commission	4.03 mi	22
Ocean County Vocational Technical School District	4.13 mi	7

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the New Jersey Department of Education.

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