Ocean Township School District

Ocean Township School District has two elementary schools serving different grade bands: Waretown Elementary School serves PK–2, and Frederic A. Priff Elementary School serves grades 3–6. Test results are provided only for Priff, so the available data cannot show which school has stronger achievement. The clearest academic concern is Priff’s 2025–2026 math performance: its average across grades 3–6 was 26% proficient, compared with 46% statewide, and grade 4 was especially low at 11%, 36 points below the state.

Priff’s strongest reported results were grade 5 science and grade 6 ELA in 2025–2026: 30% were proficient in science versus 27% statewide, while 53% were proficient in ELA versus 51% statewide. Its weakest result was grade 4 math, at 11% compared with 47% statewide. Attendance offers a different school-to-school contrast: in 2024–2025, chronic absenteeism was 16% at Waretown and 10% at Priff, a 6-point difference; Waretown was also above the district’s 13% rate and the state’s 14% rate.

Priff’s average ELA gap with the state narrowed from 8 points in 2024–2025 to 5 points in 2025–2026, while its math gap widened from 11 to 20 points. Grade 4 math fell from 41% proficient to 11%, even as the state result stayed nearly level, at 47% and 47%; grade 5 science moved in the opposite direction, rising from 24% to 30%. SchoolDigger lists Priff at the 36th percentile in 2023–2024 and the 35th percentile in each of the next two years; Waretown’s older listed history ranges from the 16th to the 27th percentile. As context, in 2024–2025 Priff had a 16.1 student-teacher ratio and 44% free/reduced lunch eligible, while Waretown had a 14.6 ratio and 38% free/reduced lunch eligible.