Summary:
The Seaside Heights School District has only one elementary school, Hugh J. Boyd Junior Elementary School, which serves students from pre-kindergarten through 6th grade. The school has consistently ranked in the bottom 25% of New Jersey elementary schools over the past three school years, with significant gaps in academic achievement compared to state averages.
Hugh J. Boyd Junior Elementary School's performance on state assessments is substantially below the state average. In the 2024-2025 school year, the percentage of students proficient or better in English Language Arts ranged from 14.3% (3rd grade) to 46.7% (6th grade), compared to the state averages of 44.9% to 56.1%. In Mathematics, the school's proficiency rates ranged from 6.3% (4th grade) to 47.4% (5th grade), compared to the state averages of 39.8% to 49.8%. The school's science proficiency rate for 5th grade in 2024-2025 was also low at 15%, compared to the state average of 30.1%.
The school faces additional challenges, including a high percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch (91.48% in 2023-2024) and a chronic absenteeism rate of 14.9% in the same year. While the school has a low student-teacher ratio of 7.3, its per-student spending for the 2018-2019 school year was $16,802, suggesting the need for additional resources and support to address the school's performance and equity issues.
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